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Fermi Questioning


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How can a teacher improve their questioning technique and increase impact?

We have previously shared Fermi Questioning in a full post to introduce to our regular readers, the physicist and Nobel Prize winner, Enrico Fermi. Fermi questions are just one of the many questioning ideas that can found in the Questioning Technique Pocketbook by Gorden Pope. This video offers a short explanation.

What Is Fermi Questioning?

Fermi challenged his students to use estimation, common sense and numerical reasoning to work out quantities that were difficult or

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28th April 201811th August 2021 by @TeacherToolkit
Posted in Assessment, Basic Account, Teaching and LearningTagged #30ClassroomIdeas, challenge, Creative Thinking, deliberate practice, Enrico Fermi, motivation, Nobel Peace Prize, Open Ended Questions, Pose Pause Pounce Bounce, Questioning, Questions, Teaching and Learning

3 thoughts on “Fermi Questioning”

  1. Peter Morris says:
    28th April 2018 at 10:36 am

    Just curious how you get the reading times. Takes me a lot longer.

    1. @TeacherToolkit says:
      28th April 2018 at 12:52 pm

      Based on 300wpm.

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