Take a deep dive into the five practices for facilitating
productive mathematical discussions
By Margaret (Peg) Smith and
Miriam Gamoran Sherin
Take a deeper dive into understanding the five
practices—anticipating, monitoring, selecting, sequencing, and connecting—for
facilitating productive mathematical conversations in your middle school
classrooms and learn to apply them with confidence. This follow-up to the
modern classic, The 5 Practices in Practice: Successfully Orchestrating
Mathematics Discussions in Your Middle School Classroom, shows the
five practices in action in middle school classrooms and
empowers teachers to be prepared for and overcome the challenges common to
orchestrating math discussions.
Authored by Margaret (Peg) Smith and Miriam
Gamoran Sherin, with a foreword by Dan Meyer, the chapters unpack the five
practices and guide teachers to a deeper understanding of how to use each
practice effectively in an inquiry-oriented classroom. This book will help you
launch meaningful mathematical discussion through
Key questions to set
learning goals, identify high-level tasks, anticipate student responses, and
develop targeted assessing and advancing questions that jumpstart productive
discussion—before class begins
Video excerpts from real
middle school classrooms that vividly illustrate the five practices in action
and include built-in opportunities for you to consider effective ways to monitor
students’ ideas, and successful approaches for selecting, sequencing, and
connecting students’ ideas during instruction
“Pause and Consider” prompts
that help you reflect on an issue—and, in some cases, draw on your own
classroom experience—prior to reading more about it
“Linking to Your Own
Instruction” sections help you implement the five practices with confidence in
your own instruction
The book, co-published with Corwin, and companion website
provide an array of resources including planning templates, sample lesson plans
and completed monitoring tools, and mathematical tasks. Enhance your fluency in
the five practices to bring powerful discussions of mathematical concepts to
life in your classroom.