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Table 2 Focal students while the teacher facilitates work on conjecturing tasks

From: Teachers’ perceptions of students’ mathematical work while making conjectures: an examination of teacher discussions of an animated geometry classroom scenario

Phase of activity

Focal students

# Descriptions across # intervals

Making conjectures

• Students who misuse task resources

10/7

• Students who would benefit from the use of additional resources

8/6

• Students who might encounter difficulty making a conjecture

21/16

Sharing and discussing conjectures

• Students who share their conjecture at the board

5/4

• Students who have trouble making sense of their peers’ conjectures

11/7

• Students who used their peers’ conjectures to better understand their own conjecture

3/3