Students enjoy sharing their thinking about different strategies they use to solve word problems. Various strategies are really helping ALL types of learners understand the concepts and not just memorize a set of steps for solving problems. Hearing peers thinking also helps students solidify and extend their understanding. Getting students to talk to each other about the strategies that are being chosen with a common language was something we worked on this week. A great way to support communication with math is use the sentence frames we created. This week we introduced the sentence frames that will help them communicate and build their understanding. Common Core is asking us to be so much more thoughtful about how we communicate and develop the math for students.