{"id":1790,"date":"2023-10-11T14:01:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T14:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/mathequityforum\/?p=1790"},"modified":"2024-06-07T20:04:36","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T20:04:36","slug":"what-do-your-students-think-about-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/mathequityforum\/what-do-your-students-think-about-math\/","title":{"rendered":"What Do Your Students Think about Math? Student Reflection as a Tool for Finding Out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

by Marta Garcia<\/a> and Annie Sussman<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

October 11, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cTo experience agency, you must first feel that your core identity \u2014
your ways of being, learning and knowing in the world \u2014 is valued\u201d <\/p>\n\u2014Safir and Dugan, Street Data<\/em>, p. 102<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n


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In a prior blog,
Student Reflection: Why Ask Students What They Think About Math?<\/a>, <\/em>we discussed the importance of providing students with time and space to reflect on their math identities and their role in the math classroom community. In order to develop a classroom community that encourages and incorporates students\u2019 ideas and agency, we need to be aware of opportunities that allow us to learn more about our students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thinking about the questions we should be asking, and when and how we ask them, is an important part of incorporating student reflection into our practice. Once we have established goals related to learning about our students, we can select appropriate questions and prompts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n