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Building understanding through effective questioning and modelling

This resource discusses different types of questions and suggests ways for teachers to extend their repertoire of questions. It also provides examples of teachers thinking aloud.

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Year level(s)	Year 5, Year 6, Year 7, Year 8
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Teaching strategies
Format	Downloadable resources
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches	Questioning
Curriculum alignment
Strand and focus	Space
Topics	Transformation
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M5N09 Use mathematical modelling to solve practical problems involving additive and multiplicative situations including financial contexts; formulate the problems, choosing operations and efficient calculation strategies, using digital tools where appropriate; interpret and communicate solutions in terms of the situation AC9M6N09 Use mathematical modelling to solve practical problems, involving rational numbers and percentages, including in financial contexts; formulate the problems, choosing operations and efficient calculation strategies, and using digital tools where appropriate; interpret and communicate solutions in terms of the situation, justifying the choices made AC9M7N09 Use mathematical modelling to solve practical problems involving rational numbers and percentages, including financial contexts; formulate problems, choosing representations and efficient calculation strategies, using digital tools as appropriate; interpret and communicate solutions in terms of the situation, justifying choices made about the representation AC9M8A03 Use mathematical modelling to solve applied problems involving linear relations , including financial contexts; formulate problems with linear functions, choosing a representation; interpret and communicate solutions in terms of the situation, reviewing the appropriateness of the model
Numeracy progression	Additive strategies (P8, P9, P10) Interpreting fractions (P8) Multiplicative strategies (P6, P8, P9) Number patterns and algebraic thinking (P7) Proportional thinking (P2) Understanding money (P7, P8)
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