Building Thinking Classrooms using engaging thinking tasks provides teachers the tools to construct a collaborative thinking culture in the classroom. At the start, beginning tasks are non-curricular and encourage the students to develop a culture of collaborative thinking. When later tasks become curricular, the students have developed a collaborative way of thinking so that everyone works together to solve problems.
Building Thinking Classrooms outlines 14 key concepts to create a more engaged student in math class. In this session, we will look at vertical learning, collaborative grouping, and handling questions in a way that puts the workload on the students.
Get ready to turn your math classroom up to eleven by ditching the "unplugged" life and plugging into the free Desmos Graphing Calculator Audio Trace features. In this high-energy session, we’re moving beyond the textbook blues to explore how auditory feedback can transform your lessons into a sensory wall of sound that supports every learner in the arena. You’ll learn to shred through quadratic functions and interpret the gritty descent of a negative slope using your ears, pairing visual data with a "math-rock" soundtrack that makes abstract concepts tangible. Close your eyes and lean into the rhythm as we channel our inner René Descartes to compose a mathematical symphony, proving that when algebra meets the amplified stage, the results are nothing short of legendary.
Listen up, people! We've got a crisis on the floor, and the patient is the student mind flatlining under the pressure of math anxiety. We’re seeing a total systemic failure of confidence, and if we don’t identify the root causes now, we’re going to lose them. This session is your crash course in emergency intervention. We’re going in deep, using high-impact tools like “Which One Doesn’t Belong?” to jumpstart their natural curiosity and shock their mathematical thinking back to life. This isn't just a lesson—it's a rescue mission for every interventionist and teacher on the front lines. Grab your gear and get ready to trade self-doubt for a pulse of empowerment, because we’re not letting another student slip away on our watch.
