Communicating reasoning and constructing models fold nicely into a geometry activity involving the building of nesting boxes.
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Tutita M. Casa
This instructional tool helps students engage in discussions that foster student reasoning, then settle on correct mathematics.
Informing Practice: Examples as Tools for Constructing Justifications
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Kristen N. Bieda and Jerilynn Lepak
Research explores how to help students build from, instead of building with, examples when justifying mathematical ideas.
