5 Practices for Orchestrating Productive Mathematics Discussions 2nd edition

Anticipating students’ solutions to a mathematics task

Monitoring students’ in-class, “real-time” work on the task

Selecting approaches and students to share them

Sequencing students’ presentations purposefully

Connecting students’ approaches and the underlying mathematics

These 5 manageable practices have the power to put teachers in control of productive classroom discussions.

What’s new?

• Guidance on what is involved in anticipating, including elaboration on assessing and advancing questions 

• Details on what is involved in anticipating, including elaboration on assessing and advancing questions

• Expanded lesson planning discussion

Situated in the current educational context of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics and NCTM’s Principles to Actions, 5 Practices2^nd edition remains relevant for K – grade 12 mathematics teachers and the coaches, teacher educators, professional developers, and supervisors that support them.

Relevant for K – grade 12 mathematics teachers and the coaches, teacher educators, professional developers, and supervisors that support them.