Have you tried implementing or are you ready to start trying the practices from Building Thinking Classrooms, but still have questions on how to make these strategies work for YOUR classroom? Come learn, discuss, share, and improve your craft with real classroom teachers who have made BTC work for themselves and others! Thinking tasks will...
Students need to understand the meaning of multiplication beyond repeated addition & the meaning of division beyond repeated addition and repeated subtraction. They also need multiple strategies to multiply and...
Fractions and fraction operations are the foundations for middle school mathematics. They are essential for proportional reasoning, algebra, and probability, yet they are incredibly difficult to learn and teach. In middle schools, it is important to understand students’ previous experiences with fractions in order to develop their algebraic reasoning. Fraction operations intentionally and systematically grow...