This PDF file presents a chapter of Motivation and Disposition: Pathways to Learning Mathematics (73rd Yearbook) in a downloadable file that preserves the design and layout of the book while allowing users to search and print selected pages.
Chapter 11: Using Prediction to Motivate Personal Investment in Problem Solving. Lisa Kasmer (Grand Valley State University) and Ok-Kyeong Kim (Western Michigan University) share an instructional strategy that teachers can use to help motivate students to become more engaged in their learning, since students’ motivation can significantly affect student learning. By posing prediction questions during the launch segment of the lesson, students have an opportunity to connect to prior learning, synthesize their thinking, and become personally invested in the problem. This instructional strategy can be used in all content areas of mathematics and all grade levels.
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