Can designed student responses support teachers to interact with students in a productive way?

This paper introduces the use of pre-designed student responses to unstructured mathematics problems as a possible resource for teachers to develop their capacity of acting contingently in the mathematics classroom in a productive way, whilst teaching. We frame our argument around the notion that co...

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Main Authors: Evans, Sheila, Ayalon, Michal
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Published: International Society for Design and Development in Education 2017
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/48900/
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description This paper introduces the use of pre-designed student responses to unstructured mathematics problems as a possible resource for teachers to develop their capacity of acting contingently in the mathematics classroom in a productive way, whilst teaching. We frame our argument around the notion that contingent moments can be regarded as problem-situations that are, at times, too demanding for the teacher to effectively solve. We provide an unstructured mathematics problem and accompanying designed student responses to illustrate and explain our thinking, considering how this approach has the potential to help teachers flexibly and productively engage with students’ reasoning in-the-moment of instruction. We end the paper with a call for empirical studies to explore these ideas further.
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spelling nottingham-489002020-05-04T19:06:19Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/48900/ Can designed student responses support teachers to interact with students in a productive way? Evans, Sheila Ayalon, Michal This paper introduces the use of pre-designed student responses to unstructured mathematics problems as a possible resource for teachers to develop their capacity of acting contingently in the mathematics classroom in a productive way, whilst teaching. We frame our argument around the notion that contingent moments can be regarded as problem-situations that are, at times, too demanding for the teacher to effectively solve. We provide an unstructured mathematics problem and accompanying designed student responses to illustrate and explain our thinking, considering how this approach has the potential to help teachers flexibly and productively engage with students’ reasoning in-the-moment of instruction. We end the paper with a call for empirical studies to explore these ideas further. International Society for Design and Development in Education 2017-09-12 Article PeerReviewed Evans, Sheila and Ayalon, Michal (2017) Can designed student responses support teachers to interact with students in a productive way? Educational Designer, 3 (9). ISSN 1759-1325 Designed student responses teacher support problem solving school mathematics http://www.educationaldesigner.org/ed/volume3/issue9/article33/index.htm
spellingShingle Designed student responses
teacher support
problem solving
school mathematics
Evans, Sheila
Ayalon, Michal
Can designed student responses support teachers to interact with students in a productive way?
title Can designed student responses support teachers to interact with students in a productive way?
title_full Can designed student responses support teachers to interact with students in a productive way?
title_fullStr Can designed student responses support teachers to interact with students in a productive way?
title_full_unstemmed Can designed student responses support teachers to interact with students in a productive way?
title_short Can designed student responses support teachers to interact with students in a productive way?
title_sort can designed student responses support teachers to interact with students in a productive way?
topic Designed student responses
teacher support
problem solving
school mathematics
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/48900/
https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/48900/