Making Sense of Problem Solving^®
 

• Engage your students in appealing non-routine problem solving experiences that foster deeper conceptual understanding
• Implement lessons that use powerful practices for orchestrating productive mathematics discussions

These grade level books are uniquely designed to help students:

• Make sense of problems
• Engage in the range of CCSS Mathematical Practices

This program is also designed to support teachers by providing:

• Pre- and Post-assessments, integrated in each problem solving unit
• A lesson planning protocol that fosters productive mathematics discussions, with a full sample in one unit
• A tool for monitoring, selecting and sequencing student thinking, with samples of how to use that tool
• Questions for each part of the lesson to encourage engagement in CCSS Mathematical Practices
• Differentiation for more support and for more challenge
• Activities for helping students acquire mathematics vocabulary

The companion CD provides:

• Black line masters and display files for digital projectors
• Student samples