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1. After you have explored the Questioning Toolkit websites, what types of questions do you generally use when you teach students?

I use a variety of questions depending on how the students are interacting with the content; including essential, subsidiary, planning, clarifying, sifting and sorting, and probing questions of the logic, prior knowledge, and trial and error type

2. What kind of questions would lead students to think critically and at higher levels?

Probing, planning, strategic, elaborating, and unanswerable questions would lead students to think at a higher level.

3. What kind of questions would complement the integration of technologies in your classroom?

Hypothetical questions would work well with integrating technology with math problems because of the simulations that can be found to help figure out hypothetical situations. Planning questions would also help with organizing students thoughts before they use technology to solve problems or research more.