PME-NA 42 – Student Inquiry in Interesting Lessons

Poster by Hector I. Nieves, Rashmi Singh, and Leslie Dietiker

What impact, if any, do interesting lessons have on the types of questions students ask? We analyzed 145 student questions from 12 lessons, developing a rubric of student questions: factual, procedural, reasoning, and exploratory. Initial results suggest high-interest lessons contain more exploratory questions, and had more student questions arise during whole class discussion.