Grades 6-12: Mathematics Tasks for the Thinking Classroom

By Peter Liljedahl and Kyle Webb

Overview:   

Advancing the work of Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics by Peter Liljedahl, this book digs into the practices from the original book providing the latest research while addressing curricular subjects and standards specifically for grades 6-12 classrooms. You’ll come to understand how you can transform your traditional math classroom into an evolving, thinking space for math. 

This book study extends your understanding of the BTC framework, and the book includes 20 non-curricular tasks, 30 curricular tasks, and 8 additional online resources to expand your toolkit.

This self-guided course aims to provide an opportunity to explore, extend, reflect and apply thinking tasks from the Building a Thinking Classroom (BTC) framework for grades 6-12. It will help you choose tasks that fit your lessons, goals and standards, walk you through scripts that launch, facilitate and consolidate each task, share examples, and show you options for tasks to consolidate learning.  This book is the perfect companion as Illinois rolls out the Illinois Numeracy Plan.

This course is for everyone (teachers, coaches, and specialists) interested in creating and facilitating math instruction that is dynamic and thought provoking, especially for grades six through twelve (6-12).

Participants also have the option to purchase a bundle pairing this study Mathematics Tasks for the Thinking Classroom (6-12) with the Illinois Numeracy Plan to extend learning and bring additional high-quality tasks into classroom practice. Set your intention, buy the BUNDLE!