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December 2019/January 2020 | Volume 77 | Number 4 Building Bridges for ELLs Pages 77-81
Johannah Nikula, Jill Neumayer DePiper and Mark Driscoll
For English language learners, diagrams can be a powerful tool to develop and communicate mathematical understanding.
Imagine being a 6th grade student who is still learning English, sitting in a mathematics classroom and trying to navigate the lesson. You might wonder: What is the teacher saying I should do? Did my classmates solve it the way I did? Will the other students laugh at me when I try to explain how I solved the problem?
Now imagine being a teacher in that same classroom. You might be asking yourself: What can I say so that all my students will understand what to work on? How do I know that all my students understand how to solve this problem? How can I help students share their mathematical thinking in productive ways?
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