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Maths Thinking Sentence Starter Cards

13 pages|Grades: F - 7

Forty-two cards with maths reflective sentence starters.

My strategy was successful because…
The steps I followed were…
The math words I used were…
I solved the problem by…
The math words that help someone understand what I did are…
I could make this clearer by using a…
A graph (table, T-chart, picture) shows this the best because…
I decided to use a…
The most important thing I learnt in math today is…
I found challenging… because…
I was feeling really…
A question I had was…
We do this at home when we…
I did something like this before when…
I thought of…
This new math idea is like…
Today, I felt…
I need help with… because…
The hardest part of this unit on… is…
The thing I like best about mathematics is…
We found out by…
I knew it couldn’t be that because…
I got the same answer but…
I noticed…
I got the same answer by…
I found the answer by…
How did you…
I knew that…
The best way to solve this problem would be to…
I wonder…
I need to work on…
I learnt that…
I discovered that…
I know this because…
Another strategy I could use would be…
The strategy I used was…
I know my answer is correct because…
I can prove my thinking by…
I solved the problem by…
I can check my answer by…
I know the answer is reasonable because…
The first thing I did to solve the problem was…

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Fantastic thank you

Gretal French · Nov 18th, 2014

These will work with the “Back to Front” Maths problems I will be using next term.

Val Crozier · Jul 7th, 2014

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