Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics, Grades K-12

14 Teaching Practices for Enhancing Learning

By: Peter Liljedahl

Narrated by: Marlin May

A thinking student is an engaged student.

Sparked by observing teachers struggle to implement rich mathematics tasks to engage students in deep thinking, Peter Liljedahl has translated his 15 years of research into this practical guide on how to move toward a thinking classroom. Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics, Grades K-12 helps teachers implement 14 optimal practices for thinking that create an ideal setting for deep mathematics learning to occur. This guide

• Provides the what, why, and how of each practice
• Includes firsthand accounts of how these practices foster thinking
• Offers a plethora of macro moves, micro moves, and rich tasks to get started

©2020 Peter Liljedahl (P)2021 Corwin

Let’s Give It A Try

22 years of high school math instruction and much of this is new to me. Let’s see if I can improve thinking in my geometry classes. For the Greater Good!

Very useful book!

As an experienced educator I found this book an impressive consolidation of many areas of research. The authors have thought though so many issues and presented here a systematic path toward implementing practices that have long been understood to improve learning.
The narrator does a great job sounding as he were the author!

Amazing!

I am excited to begin my journey in building a thinking classroom during this coming school year!

Excellent!

Great research and well presented. I knew I wanted to do something different to teach the students to actually use their brains. This book lays out a great research-based method to do that effectively. I’m excited to give it a try.

Students improved greatly

I’m a sped teacher - the ‘modifying building thinking classrooms for different settings’ was a necessary supplement. I think this method works for all kids. It works in the general Ed setting and pull out at my middle school

Insightful

This audio was a great companion to the physical book. It helped gain a greater picture of this effective way for students to learn.

Audible Version

I loved the ideas, but the Audible version provides no access code for the companion resources that are continually referred to in the book, which is highly disappointing and makes the audio version of limited value.