More Good Questions: Great Ways to Differentiate Secondary Mathematics Instruction

by Marian Small, Amy Lin

Learn how to differentiate math instruction to help all students be successful learners in the secondary mathematics classroom. Featuring 89 new questions, this revised edition uses two powerful and universally applicable strategies―Open Questions and Parallel Tasks―to help teachers differentiate instruction with less difficulty and greater success. This popular book shows teachers how to get started and become expert with these strategies, demonstrating how to use more inclusive learning conversations to promote broader student participation and how to formatively assess understanding. Strategies and examples are organized around Big Ideas and reference common standards. With particular emphasis on algebra, chapters also address number and operations, geometry, measurement including trigonometry, and data analysis and probability. Updated with many new examples and expanded guidelines for teachers to create their own open tasks and questions, More Good Questions, Second Edition is designed to allow students to respond from their own expertise level and to also come together as a math community for the conceptual conversation around a math problem. Book PROFESSIONAL Visit Marian Small’s website onetwoinfinity.ca for in-person and online professional development.

Genres: Education

224 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2010

Reviews

[Jodi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really straightforward and helpful. Two ways to reword math questions: make them open ended or give two options: one more difficult (parallel problems) and have students choose. They had several great examples sorted into each area of the math standards: Algebra, Geometry, measurement and data analysis/probability.

[Rachel · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was amazing and changed a lot of the way I teach. I love the idea of parallel tasks and if open ended questions and have really started implementing them in my classes.

[Leighanne Medina · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great resource for secondary math teachers!

[Trever · Rating 3 out of 5]

I thought this book was going to be much better. Instead of giving me different questions that don't relate to my students, I was looking for different ways of differentiating and different activities. The only thing I wish they would have besides what was shared above was student examples of this actual stuff being used.

[David Cohen · Rating 1 out of 5]

Good approaches to differentiate the classroom. Math discussion examples were expansive and beyond my remedial students. I chose to shelf this and use as a reference guide. Very specific which is great for high level students or those engaged.