First, gather your entries from Journals 1-4 and reread them. Highlight the questions that were most provocative or productive for you in thinking about reasoning and proof. What do you want to add or change to make these entries reflect your current thinking? Would you write more now? If so, go for it.

Here are some questions for your final journal.

• We have now studied the Communication, Problem Solving, and Reasoning and Proof process standards. How are these standards connected? Why is reasoning and proof an important element of effective problem solving?
• Small changes can have big differences. What one change in your classroom could you make to improve your students' reasoning skills? Could you make that change the next time you walk into your classroom –– say, tomorrow? Why or why not?
• Imagine that a video team was to arrive tomorrow to tape your class as a study of reasoning and proof in action. What would the video show? What would you be proud of? What might you want to change?
• A year from now, where would you like to be as a teacher with respect to reasoning and proof? How might you get there? How will you know when you're there?

• Use pen and paper.
• Use a word processor.
• Use the form below.

Your work will be displayed in a printer-friendly format to enable you to print.

Thanks for writing in your journal. Please print out your last entry and add it to Journals 1-4.

Congratulations -- you've completed the session! If you are the type who is motivated by rewards, give yourself an appropriate one. You've just completed a substantial amount of work, and you deserve credit.

  In the next session, we address the Representation Standard.