Verbatim Questions

1. What do you know from reading the question?
2. What do you think your first step should be to answering this question?
3. How did you get that answer?

Reactions:
1. The students told me the numbers the were important to that problem. This helped them to elimate the number that did not pertain to that particlular problem.
2. Many of the students first step was to set up the equation after reading the problem.
3. As the students showed me how they got that specific answer they would catch their own mistake or show a strong understanding of that specific problem.