Questions to Promote Quality Thinking

 In mathematics we are too quick to use CLOSED Questions What is 23 + 47? These types of questions are just asking, in many cases to recall a fact or a skill, Little, if no thinking required!!  

So we need to "Open" up the questions(more about these in a future post)

We need to have a bank of good questions that will help us, as teachers,  so that we can encourage the Students, to reflect, Justify, and think about what they have been doing.

Here are a couple of lists that you may wish to use as you explore more Open Type Questions