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Routines for Reasoning: Fostering the Mathematical Practices in All Students
" 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, 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.
- 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, 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.
208 pages, Paperback
Published September 27, 2016
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June 1, 2018
This phenomenal book was a complete paradigm shift for me! I will definitely be implementing these instructional routines that focus on mathematical thinking/reasoning (as opposed to my previous methods of teaching mathematical procedures focused on getting the correct answer). I highly recommend this to all intermediate math teachers!
July 15, 2017
Excellent and "do-able" resource for developing Standards for Mathematical Practice in elementary students. Very well laid out with thorough descriptions, examples, and vignettes to aid the teacher.
March 18, 2018
This book wasn’t what I expected, but it had some good ideas that can be easily implemented.
December 13, 2019
An excellent resource!
April 24, 2020
Includes excellent routines for teaching mathematics.
August 1, 2022
This really helped to frame my thinking about how to support the math practices in a classroom.
July 17, 2024
This book was harder to get into than the book I read earlier by Peter Liljedahl. I finally got into and recognized the pattern of teaching that can help students in building their “think like a mathematician” mindset. I also really like the sentence stems provided to help shift my teaching and student think to embrace more of the eight mathematical practices.
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