[Photo by CourtneyCarmody via flickr.]
It’s important to teach our children to ask questions, about math and about life. As I wrote in my series about homeschooling with math anxiety, “School textbooks only ask questions for which they know the answer. When homeschoolers learn to think like mathematicians, we will ask a different type of question.”
So I was delighted to see this new post from Bon Crowder: Ten Questions to Ask About a Math Problem. Click the link and read the whole thing!
Why a list of questions about math problems? Before creating them, I decided the questions should do the following:
- Allow the student to dig in deeper to the math problem, and the math behind the problem.
- Help the student to think about the problem in ways they wouldn’t normally.
- Let the student get creative in thinking about the problem.
And of course doing these things regularly will train them to continue to do this with all math problems through their lives.
— Bon Crowder
Ten Questions to Ask About a Math Problem
Denise Gaskins' Let's Play Math 
Thanks, Denise, for the repost. So glad you enjoyed it. I can’t wait to see how it works!
(Funny thing too: I didn’t see that I spelled out “ten” until I saw it written here. I don’t usually do that in titles, so I changed it. Thanks for the subtle hint!)