Relationships between levels of teacher-initiated and student-initiated questions in a mathematics classroom

Teachers use a variety of questioning methods to verify students' understanding. Different questioning styles should be used depending on the type of lesson that is being presented. Teachers use different types of questions as well as different quantities of questions depending on their own experiences. Students also ask questions, both reasoning level and knowledge level, of their teachers.;This study examined the relationships between the quantity of reasoning level and knowledge level questions asked by a teacher and the quantity of reasoning level and knowledge level questions asked by students in a large group teaching situation. This study also examined 28 relationships that were compared using the collected data.;The results of the study show that there is a generally a positive relationship between the number of reasoning level or knowledge level questions asked by a teacher and the number of reasoning level or knowledge level questions asked by the student.