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

by Peter Liljedahl

Even when we ran tasks on the same students at different points of the lesson, we saw a huge difference between a task given early versus late in a lesson. It wasn’t about the task, and it wasn’t about the students. It was the timing of the task that made a difference.