The Teacher Moves Table provides sentence frames and questions that teachers can use to address the dimensions of the Culturally Responsive Mathematics Teaching (CRMT) framework during different phases of the math modeling cycle.
Here are some examples:
Making Sense of Situations and Posing a Modeling Problem
- Elicit student connections to the situation:
- “What do you notice?”
- “What do you wonder?”
- “Who has an experience to share?”
- Build on students’ curiosities and questions:
- “Several people wondered about ________. We are going to investigate these questions as we work on our problem.”
- “This is our problem for today: [state problem]. How does this problem connect to your questions and wonders?”
- Provide varied opportunities for students to contribute ideas:
- “Before we share wonders with the class, talk to a partner about your ideas.”
- “You can share your questions in English or [another language].”