Table 1 Instructional norms for ‘making conjectures’
Instructional norms | |
1. | The teacher provides students with diagrams of mathematical objects and tools to use in conjecturing and prompts students to come up with conjectures |
2. | The teacher expects students to generate conjectures that state properties about said objects |
3. | The teacher does not have expectations for the generality of students’ conjectures |
4. | The teacher enables students’ to share their conjecture with the class |
5. | The teacher oversees discussion of each conjecture |