In math classrooms around the country and world, students using the Question Formulation Technique (QFT) are asking questions like: “How…
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In his 1867 doctoral dissertation, German mathematician Georg Cantor argued, “in mathematics, the art of posing a question must be…
I've been experimenting with the Question Formulation Technique (QFT) in my math classes this year.
This webinar is presented by Oklahoma Council of Teachers of Mathematics, and facilitated by Telannia Norfar, a mathematics teacher at…
Lucy Canotas, a fourth-grade teacher in Manchester, New Hampshire, used the QFT to learn more about what her students knew or did not know about fractions. This video shows Canotas using a visual Question Focus to stimulate students’ questions. She leads her class through each step of the Question Formulation Technique, all the way through their reflections at the end on what they learned and liked about the process.
This is a guest post by educator Jay Corrigan. “Who’s that?” Several of the 5th graders in the classroom asked…