Aaron M. Rumack and DeAnn Huinker
Capturing students’ own observations before solving a problem propelled a culture of sense making by meeting needs typical of middle school learners.
Laurie Speranzo and Erik Tillema
Specific teacher moves and lesson planning can facilitate student empowerment in the middle school classroom.
Clayton M. Edwards, Rebecca R. Robichaux-Davis, and Brian E. Townsend
Three inquiry-based tasks highlight the planning, classroom discourse, positive results, and growth in one class’s journey.
Peter Wiles, Travis Lemon, and Alessandra King
Students move from slides, flips, and turns into reasoning about the characteristics of rigid transformations.
Jo Boaler
Engage your learners through tasks proven to significantly promote reasoning and problem solving, which touch on many of the Mathematics Teaching Practices in Principles to Actions: Ensuring Mathematical Success for All. These tasks are discussed in this article, another installment in the series.
Miriam Gamoran Sherin and James Lynn
This article explores three processes involved in attending to evidence of students’ thinking, one of the Mathematics Teaching Practices found in Principles to Actions: Ensuring Mathematical Success for All. These processes, explored during a classroom activity on proportional relationships, are discussed in this article, another installment in the series.