Margaret (Peg) S. Smith Knihy

Take a deep dive into the five practices for facilitating productive mathematical discussions Enhance your fluency in the five practices--anticipating, monitoring, selecting, sequencing, and connecting--to bring powerful discussions of mathematical concepts to life in your elementary classroom. This book unpacks the five practices for deeper understanding and empowers you to use each practice effectively. - Video excerpts vividly illustrate the five practices in action in real elementary classrooms - Key questions help you set learning goals, identify high-level tasks, and jumpstart discussion - Prompts guide you to be prepared for and overcome common challenges Includes planning templates, sample lesson plans and completed monitoring tools, and mathematical tasks.