February 2000, Vol. 6, Issue 6
Designing Questions to Encourage Children's Mathematical Thinking
Jane Schielack, Dinah Chancellor, and Kimberly Childs
Suggestions for an elementary school activity and questions to promote five types of mathematical thinking: modeling, logical analysis, inference, optimization, and abstraction.
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