In an effort to incorporate writing into our math class, students completed an activity today in class which required them to not only show their proficiency in computing an answer, an additional component to the task was to explain how they arrived at their answer. I encouraged students not to be shy explaining their answers and that the answers did not have to be long and drawn out. I simply want students to explain, step by step, their thinking as they completed the problem.
Students were given an additional word problem to complete as tonight’s homework.