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    BGSU eMagazine Article

    Cody Dominick
    Masters in Classroom Technology
    April 4, 2024

    Predicting & Hypothesizing


    Inductive Learning in Mathematics

    Overview
    In the traditional classroom, specifically with mathematics, teachers tend to use deductive
    learning. What this means is that we give students a rule, and then they use it in examples. What
    if we started doing this the other way around? What if we gave students examples and had them
    figure out the rules, the formulas, and how we got from one step to another? That is, in essence,
    what inductive reasoning is.

    Steps of Inductive Learning


    1. Present students with a set of data,
    objects, images, artifacts, experiences, equations,
    etc. to observe.
    2. Ask students to make predictions, rules, or
    hypotheses based on their observations.
    3. Have students check and modify their
    predictions based on new information.
    4. Students apply what they have learned.

    Example
    To the left is an example of this in a math
    classroom. For this, students looked at circles with different centers. Then they looked at
    different equations of circles. Then the step you see is when they start to make connections
    between the circle and its given equation.
    2

    How can I use this more often in mathematics?


    As mathematics teachers, it is very often that we go to professional
    developments about reading, vocabulary, all these things that we don’t use
    every day in the math classroom, so it’s hard to incorporate. When I saw a
    professional development presentation on this, I knew it could be
    something to transform my classroom. Now anytime I am teaching
    something that has a more simple rule, I use this strategy. When I use this
    strategy, I observe higher student engagement, as well as higher scores on
    those portions of assessments. Below I have posted some more examples
    of how I have used this in my classroom.

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