First, gather your entries from Journals 1-4 and reread them, editing your original comments as needed. Highlight the questions that were most provocative or productive for you in thinking about reasoning and proof. Would you like to add to what you have written? 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 make 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 film 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?
• As a teacher, where would you like to be with respect to reasoning and proof a year from now? 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 this last entry and add it to those for Journals 1-4.

  In the next session, we will address the Representation Standard.