Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics, Grades K-12: 14 Teaching Practices for Enhancing Learning (Corwin Mathematics Series)

by Peter Liljedahl

Problem-solving tasks are often called non-routine tasks because they require students to invoke their knowledge in ways that have not been routinized. Once routinization happens, students are mimicking rather than thinking—or as Lithner (2008) calls it, being imitative rather than creative.

Epistemic Non-routinized moments amid routines that engender self-regulation.