Description

Take a deep dive into the five practices for facilitating productive mathematical discussions

Enhance your fluency in the five practices--anticipating, monitoring, selecting, sequencing, and connecting--to bring powerful discussions of mathematical concepts to life in your middle school classroom. This book unpacks the five practices for deeper understanding and empowers you to use each practice effectively.

• Video excerpts vividly illustrate the five practices in action in real middle school classrooms
• Key questions help you set learning goals, identify high-level tasks, and jumpstart discussion
• Prompts guide you to be prepared for and overcome common challenges

Includes planning templates, sample lesson plans and completed monitoring tools, and mathematical tasks.