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Video: Building Playdough Towers
Source: TeacherTube Math
Length: 3:16 Minutes

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1) Notice the language that the child care professional is using when conversing about building playdough towers. Why did she use this language and these types of questions?

60 Comments

Siamak Soroor

5/15/2018 03:35:05 pm

allowed for opwn ended queations, during play.

Bethnay

5/29/2018 02:31:13 pm

Lots of open ended questions!!

Desireee

6/5/2018 01:51:25 pm

She is specifically referencing spacial concepts. "How many until mine is as tall as yours?"
"Look, you have a small cookie."
This is helping the children understand spacial concepts.

Maryam

6/13/2018 08:49:44 pm

To show children that their ideas are important and children feel confident about what they are doing.

Melina

6/27/2018 12:07:58 pm

It's all open ended questions and that let's the child explore different answers and conclusions.

Rahele Shishegaran

1/9/2019 09:50:13 pm

I agree

Destin

6/28/2018 01:10:35 pm

Keeps the children engaged and intrigued by the activity. Also initiates critical thinking on the part of the kids to have to observe the math concepts and spatial concepts being used in their play dough play.

Hae Lim

6/29/2018 05:18:17 pm

She is helping to build vocabulary and is asking open-ended questions to involve the children and promote discussions. "How did you do that?" "How many more?"

Denisse Peralta

7/9/2018 04:23:31 pm

she is helping their vocabulary grow by asking questions about what there making.

Angelica Sanchez

8/1/2018 10:13:45 am

a lot of open end questions, keeping children talking help them with their communication skills.

Rosemarie Navarrete

8/1/2018 10:14:33 am

she use words that got the kids attention

kyla

8/3/2018 03:57:40 pm

The teacher used open ended questions and language that keeps the children engaged in learning. It also helps them use their critical thinking.

Kavitha

8/7/2018 04:52:04 pm

She was asking them questions that helped them enhance their knowledge about math, shapes and help them with their language skills.

Debra Barrett

8/10/2018 06:42:24 pm

She is asking open ended questions, which engages the children and is building their knowledge in math, shapes, and directions.

Mattie

8/13/2018 05:21:11 pm

She asks them questions so they can build their vocabulary and think for themselves.

Ellie

8/26/2018 05:21:45 pm

She used open ended questions that engaged the children and made them think about how they made things, how many they made, the size of them etc.

Christine Kim

8/26/2018 08:08:41 pm

She was saying the words they can use to describe on what they are showing. Also with the open ended question helps them to think about what they are doing and help them expand on what they are working on. Also in a way so that the children next to them can learn as well ,also to help connect the children together ,and create a social delevopment experience.

Emily

8/27/2018 05:04:03 pm

She was using open ended questions to keep the children engaged and help build their math skills as well as motor skills.

carolyn

8/28/2018 09:00:52 am

She is using open ended questions. To help them with their math skills and learning vocabulary.

Xiaowei Chen

9/11/2018 02:38:48 pm

She uses open-end questions to engage children in deeper thinking about math concepts. She also use rich vocabulary to introduce new words to the children,

Loubna Madani

9/25/2018 03:44:07 pm

she is asking open ended questions that allow the children to answer and be more involved.

Jacqui

9/28/2018 07:35:45 pm

She was using open ended questions so that the children could be engaged in the conversation as well as having them “teach” her how to do things, which would build their confidence. While doing this, the care giver was able to introduce new vocabulary as well as new ideas for the children.

Lara

10/10/2018 11:55:33 am

She used open ended questions to help the children engage and think about what they were doing as well as problem solve. She also used math concepts (counting, measuring) and encouraged new vocabulary words.

scott

10/18/2018 08:00:18 pm

open ended questions
children are thinking and figuring out the answers

Colby Burke

10/18/2018 10:28:54 pm

The teacher is using language with the children that they can understand and that peaks their imagination. She’s asking questions, she’s letting them find their own answers, and they are in turn more interested.

Melissa Junker

10/27/2018 11:59:00 am

She's using lots of open-ended questions to allow the student to learn & grow in critical thinking.

Nancy Madrigal

11/4/2018 10:09:46 am

Helps with language and literacy when caregivers interact with children and ask questions (open ended questions).

Elizabeth

11/7/2018 07:07:26 pm

She is allowing the children to interact with her and with other children by felicitating the conversation. Encouraging the children to see and feel "Big" and "small" to help their understanding

Misaki

12/27/2018 10:20:05 am

I agree with you.

GIANINA KEYS

11/10/2018 02:22:54 pm

She is specifically referencing spacial concepts. "How many until mine is as tall as yours?"
"Look, you have a small cookie."

GIANINA KEYS

11/10/2018 03:30:34 pm

She allowed for open discussion with questions!

Olga Dyakonov

11/11/2018 08:48:30 pm

She was asking them questions that helped them enhance their knowledge .

Ailing Yan

11/18/2018 03:26:48 pm

She used a lot of open ended questions,keeping kids talking to her and help them with communication skills.

Tanya

11/24/2018 12:49:32 pm

She uses open ended questions to help kids with language development, communication skills, early math, and logical thinking.

Eun link

11/25/2018 10:46:57 pm

She uses open-end questions to engage children in thinking about math concepts like number, shapes.

Amber

11/26/2018 01:57:33 pm

The teacher is using words that reference mathematical concpets. She is building vocabulary that relates to these math concepts.

Tatiana Polyakova

11/26/2018 02:28:58 pm

Teacher asks open ended question to help kids develop the language skills, early math, and logical thinking

Carol Briggs

11/28/2018 05:09:35 am

they are open eneded questions

Jessica

12/2/2018 05:05:21 pm

She used open ended questions to engage the children in critical thinking, teach spatial concepts and build their vocabulary.

Breanna

12/4/2018 06:09:37 pm

Her questions required the children to think and use their problem solving skills. Her dialect was also engaging and encouraged the children to converse.

Chloe

12/5/2018 09:56:28 pm

She was asking the questions like that to get the kids thinking and incorporate math,when she asks how many more the kids have to stop and think then count and estimate how many more. it is using spatial thinking.

Elaina

12/12/2018 07:37:02 pm

she was using open ended questions to get the kids minds working to help improve math and building skills

Tim

12/13/2018 12:19:10 pm

The teacher is asking open-ended questions and making encouraging or descriptive statements to engage the child to continue playing, creating, thinking and conversing.

Drew

12/15/2018 11:31:22 am

The teacher was focusing on what the children were doing and mimicking their actions. In doing so she was empowering and encouraging the children in their endeavors as well as fostering further exploration and experimentation. She was also using the opportunity to talk about numbers, height, size, and other spacial concepts as well as pointing out generosity when it arose thus enforcing the ideas of kindness and giving.

wanda

12/16/2018 03:15:30 pm

The teacher is asking the kids open ended questions so they can answer how ever they want. The questions engage the child she is talking to to answer how what they are doing.

Andrey Dyakonov

12/19/2018 01:02:54 pm

She is allowing the children to interact with her and with other children, encouraging the children to see and feel "big" and "small" to help their understanding

Mitch

12/19/2018 03:59:12 pm

The teacher is using open ended questions, keeping the children engaged in the activity. The children respond with their own interpretations building on their understanding of numbers, hight and shape of the play dough towers.

yana

12/26/2018 06:22:46 pm

By using open ended questions, she is letting kids think for themselves.

Pati

12/27/2018 09:52:39 am

leaving conversations open ended and lets the children interact

Misaki

12/27/2018 10:27:09 am

She used a lot of open ended questions. She is helping the kids to improve their communication skills too.

B Profit

12/27/2018 01:50:18 pm

She is using size and scale language to help the children learn how to measure their creations, and learn to use that descriptive math vocabulary themselves. She asks questions to allow them to process further, with out telling them what to think..that way they can discover it themselves.

Anzhelika

12/28/2018 12:00:09 pm

Lots of open ended questions.

dasha unguryan

12/30/2018 11:13:12 pm

Open ended questions are used.

vladimir unguryan

12/31/2018 04:39:50 pm

there were a lot of open ended questions.

Afton

1/10/2019 10:01:03 am

The chid care professional is using math- related language and open ended questions to help children think about height, addition, and revising their thoughts through hands-on trial and error.

Rahele

1/16/2019 11:55:58 am

Using open ended questions was a great way to help children expand their vocabulary instead of a "yes" or "no" type answers.

Michelle

2/18/2019 06:54:28 pm

The care giver is asking open ended questions to child in order to compare the two towers

Barbara Cummings

6/2/2019 04:48:33 pm

The child care giver was looking for more than just yes or no answers. It gives the child the chance to expand their vocabulary and to measure with their eyes as to what else needs to be done to match.

Charity R Bettelyoun

8/5/2019 12:23:03 pm

Along with using open-ended questions the teacher was using spatial words to teach the children about the different spatial Concepts she was also doing parallel talk and saying what the girls were doing and then giving them confidence by saying oh what you're telling me is really working

Sandi

11/10/2019 09:56:23 am

She used all open-ended questions! Which kept the child involved and building their confidence.

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