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=Define the question= What type of question are you asking? What content area is it for? What age level is it for? What content specific vocabulary will you use? All of these questions are essential to creating a high level of questioning for your images. Your question must be concise yet have enough information for your students to complete the task.


 * ===For your chosen TEK:===
 * ===come up with 3 vocabulary terms that are important or useful===

=﻿Make it multi-step= For students to be successful at a higher level, we need them to think outside the box. We are so used to boxing up the answer for them so we can be sure that they "got it" that we fail to open up the box sometimes and let them explore things on their own. Your question needs to contain some deeper level thinking within the original question.

For example, compare the following two questions.

How many quarts are in 3 gallons?
 * Question 1**

Jesse used 12 quarts of milk in a week. A gallon of milk costs $3.75. A quart costs two thirds the cost of a gallon. How much money would Jesse have saved if he would have bought his milk in gallons instead of quarts?
 * Question 2**

Look how much more thinking goes on in question 2!

For question 1 the student must:
 * know the conversion of 4 quarts to a gallon
 * multiply 4 X 3

For question 2 the student must:
 * know the conversion of 4 quarts to a gallon
 * figure two thirds of the cost of a gallon (divide by three & multiply by two)
 * multiply 3.75 by 3 and two thirds of 3.75 by 12
 * subtract the difference of the above amounts

How awesome would it be to have our students effortlessly working individually and/or collaboratively on problems that take multiple steps to complete?
 * ===For your chosen TEK:===
 * ===think of how you can ask a multi-step question===
 * ===think of a real life scenario where this math would be used===

=﻿Leave out the process information= Finally, when forming your question, make sure that you do not give away how the student should complete the assignment.

Examples of words to forgo would be:
 * multiply
 * divide
 * sum
 * quotient
 * total