Math Workshop: Five Steps to Implementing Guided Math, Learning Stations, Reflection, and More is an essential resource for any teacher, school, or district looking to shift or enhance how math is taught. It includes lesson plan examples and templates that will help you visualize and implement a math workshop model in any classroom.

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A Teacher’s Guide to Math Workshop shares a step-by-step process for implementing a math workshop in... more

Solving for Why offers educators the tools and guidance essential for successfully solving for why students struggle with mathematics. The step-by-step, RTI (Response to Intervention) – like approaches, focused on assessment and communication with students, help teachers gain insight into student understanding in a remarkably different way that recipe-type approaches... more

What is a collaborative math classroom? Peek inside one and you’ll find an equitable, dynamic, student-centered math classroom based on exploration, shared thinking, and dialogue. Instead of explaining procedures, the teacher curates and facilitates rich mathematical experiences that students engage in together. Students learn not just mathematical ideas,... more

Welcome to Math Class features 16 favorite lessons from Marilyn Burns, one of today’s most highly respected mathematics educators. In this specially compiled collection, Marilyn shares lessons that have weathered the test of time and become permanent parts of her teaching repertoire.

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Talk Moves: A Teacher's Guide for Using Classroom Discussions in Math offers an award-winning, unparalleled look at the significant role that classroom discussions can play in teaching mathematics and deepening students' mathematical understanding and learning.

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Dramatically Improving High School Mathematics Must Start Now!

High school math is failing many students. Out-of-date and stale curricula are not only dull, but perpetuate inequity by limiting opportunities and failing to prepare a majority of students for life in the 21st century.

Even traditionalists recognize that the status quo is no... more

What is a good question?

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Good Questions for Math Teaching, K-5 is a powerful resource that answers these questions. It also provides more than 300 examples of open-ended questions for creating dynamic... more

What is a good question?

How do I create a good question?

How might I use a good question in my mathematics classroom?

Good Questions for Math Teaching, 5-8 is a powerful resource that answers these questions. It also provides more than 375 examples of open-ended questions for creating dynamic... more