Grace Kelemanik

Teaching our children to think and reason mathematically is a challenge, not because students can't learn to think mathematically, but because we must change our own often deeply-rooted teaching habits. This is where instructional routines come in. Their predictable design and repeatable nature support both teachers and students to develop new habits. In Teaching for Thinking, Grace Kelemanik and Amy Lucenta pick up where their first book, Routines for Reasoning, left off. They draw on their years of experience in the classroom and as instructional coaches to examine how educators can make use of routines to make three fundamental shifts in teaching practice: Focus on thinking: Shift attention away from students' answers and toward their thinking and reasoning Step out of the middle: Shift the balance from teacher-student interactions toward student-student interactions Support productive struggle: Help students do the hard thinking work that leads to real learning With three complete new routines, support for designing your own routine, and ideas for using routines in your professional learning as well as in your classroom teaching, Teaching for Thinking will help you build new teaching habits that will support all your students to become and see themselves as capable mathematicians.

"Routines for Reasoning will help teachers think a lot harder about what the mathematical practices mean... This book should be on every mathematics teacher's bookshelf." -- Elham Kazemi, Geda and Phil Condit Professor in Mathematics Education, University of Washington; coauthor of Intentional Talk "This book is a must read for every K-12 teacher serious about shifting the nature of learning mathematics in the next decade." --Timothy D. Kanold, Former Director of Mathematics and Science, and School Superintendent, Adlai E. Stevenson HSD 125 Routines can keep your classroom running smoothly. Now imagine having a set of routines focused not on classroom management, but on helping students develop their mathematical thinking skills. Routines for Reasoning provides expert guidance for weaving the Standards for Mathematical Practice into your teaching by harnessing the power of classroom-tested instructional routines. Grace Kelemanik, Amy Lucenta, and Susan Janssen Creighton have applied their extensive experience teaching mathematics and supporting teachers to crafting routines that are practical teaching and learning tools, including: Capturing Quantities encouraging abstract and quantitative reasoning Connecting Representations noticing and using mathematical structure Recognizing Repetition developing repeated reasoning skills Three Reads starting and sustaining thinking in problem solving situations Each routine provides a familiar, accessible structure that supports repeated use until the steps to follow, thinking skills to employ, and questions to ask become automatic--enabling all students to engage more fully in learning opportunities while building crucial mathematical thinking habits. "Teaching students to think and reason is perhaps the greatest challenge we face as math educators," the authors remind us, "and these routines provide clear pathways to do so." Far beyond simply a collection of strategies, Routines for Reasoning provides significant support for getting started with these routines, incorporating them into the rhythm of your classroom, and ultimately building toward student independence.

Here's everything you need for powerful professional development in one place: "The Fostering Geometric Thinking Toolkit." Based on the popular "Fostering Geometric Thinking, "the "Toolkit"'s 20 two-hour sessions provide a year's worth of math PD for middle and secondary teachers. Its facilitator- and participant-friendly sessions cover the key topics of "Fostering Geometric Thinking" geometric properties, transformations, and measurement. With "The Fostering Geometric Thinking Toolkit, "you'll lead teachers through hands-on opportunities to: develop new understandings of middle and secondary students' geometric thinking through a field-tested geometric habits-of-mind framework broaden and express their own geometric thinking by solving rich problems observe students' thinking and problem solving through in-the-classroom footage practice analyzing student work apply all they've learned in the sessions to engage students' thinking more effectively. "The Fostering Geometric Thinking Toolkit" fully supports you. Its facilitator materials provide clear instructions and include agendas, facilitator notes and tips, and other helpful resources. Its accompanying DVD goes above and beyond with an array of essential tools, including: numerous video clips for use in the sessions PowerPoint slideshows that summarize existing research on students' geometric thinking printer-ready participant handouts geometry applets for use by both participants and their students. Use "The Fostering Geometric Thinking Toolkit" and help your participants discover powerful ways to lead students to a new understanding of geometry.