This study attempted to differentiate discourse-based formative assessment practice (DAP) between an expert and a mathematics teacher, to form educational implications on teachers’ professional development, and to investigate the relationship between teachers’ DAP and their students’ performance in mathematics literacy. Two key critical stages of formative assessment, evidence elicitation and informed action suggested by Popham (2008), were respectively carried out in terms of questioning and oral feedback (Tunstall & Gipps, 1996) either in a convergent or a divergent way (Pryor & Crossouard, 2008). Crockett, Chen, Lee & Zilimu‘s (2012) framework to analyze mathematics discourse were adapted for the data analysis in the current study. Transcripts were organized into initial exchange, move, the type of teacher utterance, the type of questioning, and the kind of feedback so that the teachers‘ DAP and the similarities and differences were characterized. It’s found that the expert mathematics teacher tend to conduct divergent DAP while the other teacher conducted convergent DAP. Also, more extended sequences and teacher-student interchanges were observed in the expert teacher’s classroom. In addition, the expert teacher asked more categroies of high-level questions than her counterpart. However, the categroies of high-level questions initiated by the two teachers were limited. The majority of low-level question asked by the two teachers was short anwer. When stundents’ answers were corret, the two teachers posed the “Why” question to ask the students to explain their answers. Once stundents’ answers were incorret, instead of posing questions to probe the students’ ideas, the two teachers’ feedback was to raise pitch and to repeat the answers to hint that stundents’ answers were wrong. It is suggested that mathematics teachers need assistance to shift teaching practice from convergent DAP to divergent to fulfill student-centered education. Case study on discourse between teachers and students may be a promising way to improve teachers’ DAP. Although conving evidence suggets that students’ learning achievement benefits from their teahcers’ formative assessment practice, the relationship between the two teachers’ DAP and their students’ performance in mathematics literacy is unclear. It is suggested that the future study investigates the impact of teachers’ DAP on students’ learning performace.