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Tip 24. Ten types of questions to ask when checking for understanding

A summary of all 10 question types:

The original paper where Pointon and Sangwin share their question taxonomy is here

Doug Lemov talks about participation ratio and think ratio in Teach like a Champion 3.0, available here

Adam Boxer discusses monosemic and polysemic questions on my Mr Barton Maths podcast here

Tom Sherrington has a blog post on the importance of checking for understanding here, and then one on five ways to check for understanding here

Sarah Cottingham shared a really interesting thread on the importance of meaning here

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