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planning
teaching
disciplining
assessing
analyzing
Answer: C
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2.
3.
Discuss three reasons why teachers with strong content knowledge are
better able to develop their students conceptual knowledge.
After correcting her students tests, Mrs. Wang discovers that most of
her students got the problem involving fraction multiplication wrong.
This is an example of which of the following functions of an instructor?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
planning
teaching
assessing
analyzing
none of the above
Answer: D
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5.
Answer: B
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7.
8.
During the first week of third-grade math class, Mr. Martin gives his
class a pre-test. In doing this, Mr. Martin is mainly concerned with
which of the following questions?
A. Do I understand the mathematics I am teaching?
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B.
C.
D.
E.
Answer: C
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9.
Discuss the two things that your text suggests you could do in order to
find out what your students already know about a certain math
concept.
Answer: Paper-and-pencil tests and by observing and talking with
them.
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help
guide the child through the increasingly intricate study of a topic.
Using
the approach with the angle concept could include having students
look
at different shapes and angles, finding them in the real world, then
moving
towards naming the different shapes and from their looking at the
relationships among angles, etc.
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12.
In Mrs. Hoffmans second-grade class, the children work with the place
values tens and ones. In third grade, they work with hundreds, tens,
and ones. This is an example of:
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Answer: A
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13.
Discuss five things that distinguish good tasks from bad ones.
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17. Summarize the four strategies mentioned in your text for creating
effective classroom
talk.
Answer: Show students that you expect them to communicate their
thinking,
create a safe place for students to conjecture and to make mistakes,
pose
problems and assign tasks that encourage children to talk, and
explicitly
teach mathematics vocabulary.
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18. T or F Research indicates that teachers use more higher-level
questions than lower- level ones.
Answer: F
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19.
While studying the angles in a triangle, Mrs. Janus asks what the sum
of the angles is. Julie answers that it is 180 degrees. Mrs. Janus then
asks her, How could you prove that? This type of question is a
question that is primarily aimed at:
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Answer: B
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After having Alexa share her response with the class, the teacher asks
the following question, What do you think will happen to the measure
of each interior angle of a polygon if we were to increase the number
of angles? This type of question is a question that is primarily aimed
at:
A. helping students work together to make sense of mathematics
B. helping students to learn to reason mathematically
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24.
25.
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Explain each of the following types of computer software: drill-andpractice, tutorial, simulation, educational game, problem-solving, and
tool.
Drill-and-practice
Tutorial
Educational game
Simulation
None of the above.
Answer: B
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daily
lessons.
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30. T or F Japanese teachers typically follow the review-teach-practice
format for mathematics lessons.
Answer: F
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31. Discuss the differences in how U.S. teachers teach compared to
Japanese teachers
Answer: U.S. teachers uses the review-teach-practice approach while
Japanese teachers are more interested in developing meaningful
understanding of a concept.
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32.
In Mrs. Jones lesson plan, she grabs the students attention by posing
an interesting problem. This is an example of which lesson plan
component?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
introduction
launch
instruct
summarize
none of the above
Answer: B
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input,
give students opportunities to increase verbal interaction during class,
teach in a way that contextualizes language, use strategies and
groupings
that reduce the anxiety of the students, and assign activities that offer
students opportunities for active involvement.
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Answer: D
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