March 28th, 2017
Bloom’s Taxonomy Math Question Stems
Creating a dialogue with the Math using Bloom’s higher level math questions!
Bloom’s Taxonomy is a classification of learning objectives within education proposed in 1956 by a committee of educators chaired by Benjamin Bloom who also edited the first volume of the standard text, Taxonomy of educational objectives: the classification of educational goals (referred to as simply “the Handbook” below). Although named for Bloom, the publication followed a series of conferences from 1949 to 1953, which were designed to improve communication between educators on the design of curricula and examinations.
It refers to a classification of the different objectives that educators set for students (learning objectives). Bloom’s Taxonomy divides educational objectives into three “domains”: Cognitive, Affective, and Psychomotor (sometimes loosely described as knowing/head, feeling/heart and doing/hands respectively). Within the domains, learning at the higher levels is dependent on having attained prerequisite knowledge and skills at lower levels. A goal of Bloom’s Taxonomy is to motivate educators to focus on all three domains, creating a more holistic form of education. source wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_Taxonomy
Bloom’s Taxonomy Questions Stems Math
- Knowing questions focus on clarifying, recalling, naming, and listing
- Which illustrates…?
- .. in standard form….
- What is the correct way to write the number of… in word form?
- Organizing questions focus on arranging information, comparing similarities/differences, classifying, and sequencing
- Which shows… in order from…?
- What is the order…?
- Which is the difference between a… and a…?
- Which is the same as…?
- .. as a…?
- Applying questions focus on prior knowledge to solve a problem
- What was the total…?
- What is the value of…?
- How many… would be needed for…?
- Add/subtract….
- Analyzing questions focus on examining parts, identifying attributes/relationships/patterns, and main idea
- Which tells…?
- If the pattern continues,….
- Which could…?
- What rule explains/completes… this pattern?
- What is/are missing?
- What is the best estimate for…?
- Which shows…?
- What is the effect of…?
- Generating questions focus on producing new information, inferring, predicting, and elaborating with details
- What number does… stand for?
- What is the probability…?
- What are the chances…?
- What effect…?
- Integrating questions focus on connecting/combining/summarizing information, and restructuring existing information to incorporate new information
- How many different…?
- What happens to… when…?
- What is the significance of…?
- How many different combinations…?
- Find the number of…, …, and … in the figure below.
- Evaluating questions focus on reasonableness and quality of ideas, criteria for making judgments, and confirming accuracy of claims
- Which most accurately…?
- Which is correct?
- Which statement about… is true?
- What are the chances…?
- Which would best…?
- Which would… the same…?
- Which statement is sufficient to proven…?
