Open Middle Math: Problems That Unlock Student Thinking, 6-12 [Pehme köide]

This book is an amazing resource for teachers who are striving to help students develop both procedural fluency and conceptual understanding. Dr. Margaret Peg Smith "Open Middle Math is a quick read. A must read. A read with the potential for immediate transformation of the quality of discourse in your classroom." - Sara VanDerWerf If you are seeking to challenge your students' thinking and build their conceptual understanding, Open Middle Math: Problems That Unlock Student Thinking, Grades 6--12 is a must-have resource. Dr. Kristopher J. Childs WARNING: Your students may not leave your mathematics classroom when the bell rings if you start using Open Middle tasks. - Sara VanDerWerf "The mathematics education community will simply devour this delicious book" - Lauren Baucom "In reading and applying Open Middle Math, I feel like I have an experienced coach cheering me on! Cathy Yenca Robert Kaplinsky's Open Middle Math provides teachers with readymade resources and practical strategies so their students can enjoy learning math through challenging problems theyll look forward to solving. Andrew Stadel Robert offers teachers strategies for adding openness and richness to problems that are at first closed and meager. Dan Meyer Open Middle Math gives teachers valuable guidance on creating safe and discovery-rich conversational spaces where students find learning math can be fun. Robert Kaplinsky's Open Middle Math provides teachers with ready-made resources and practical strategies so their students can enjoy learning math through challenging problems theyll look forward to solving.

This book is an amazing resource for teachers who are striving to help students develop both procedural fluency and conceptual understanding. Open Middle problems provide students with the opportunity to move beyond traditional procedural practice problems to explore mathematical relationships more deeply. In addition, Open Middle problems provide teachers with insights into what students really understand about the procedures they learned and important formative assessment data they can use to modify instruction. This book is a very practical guide to implementing a new class of tasks that have the potential to improve student learning!

Do you ever wish you could get a glimpse into a designers mind for how they implement their innovation? Robert Kaplinskys Open Middle Math gives educators an inside look into how Open Middle problems are designed to assist students to engage in, learn from, and persevere in productive struggle. Robert has always been willing to share his learning progress, struggles, and mistakes openly. Through his humility, he encourages readers to remember the joy that comes with productively struggling with a mathematics problem, and that we often learn more from the journey of solving than arriving at a solution. The mathematics education community will simply devour this delicious book.

Robert offers teachers strategies for adding openness and richness to problems that are at first closed and meager. So take heart, teachers! The interest and learning of your students arent dictated by the problems in your textbook as you first find them, only by your imagination and design.

WARNING: Your students may not leave your mathematics classroom when the bell rings if you start using Open Middle tasks. In his book, Robert Kaplinsky gives math educators a roadmap to effectively implement Open Middle Math with tips, multiple examples at each secondary level, answers to the what ifs, resources, and structures for creating your own tasks. . . . Open Middle Math is a quick read. A must-read. A read with the potential for immediate transformation of the quality of discourse in your classroom.