Depth of Knowledge & Understanding

The lesson enables students to sustain a focus on a mathematical topic or unit, to understand the problematic nature of ideas by arriving at a reasoned or supported conclusion, and to explain how they solved a problem.

The lesson supports students’ mathematical understanding and makes their thinking or understanding visible and deep.

Teacher uses strategic questioning and references to students’ work, talk or behaviour that enable students to examine mathematical concepts and/or procedures to support thinking and to clarify sources of potential confusion or misunderstanding.

課堂讓學生持續關注某數學主題或單元；通過合理論證，理解問題的複雜性；並解釋他們是如何解題。

課堂協助學生理解數學，將他們的想法形象化，達致更深入的理解。

老師透過具策略性的提問和引用學生習作、談話或互動行為，協助學生自行檢視數學概念和／或程序，以輔助他們思考及澄清潛在的混淆或誤解之處。