Explore resources and projects that support educators in thinking about how to expand and deepen students’ engagement with deep and rigorous mathematics.
Marilyn Burns Math is an online resource that supports K–5 educators in strengthening numeracy and mathematical reasoning. The site offers professional learning resources, tasks, and insights focused on listening to students’ thinking, using mental strategies, and making instructional decisions based on how students’ reason mathematically. (Listen to the Speaker Series Session.)
Interweaving Equitable Participation and Deep Mathematics (Schifter and Russell, 2024) focuses on teaching deep and challenging mathematics while also centering equitable participation for all students. (Listen to the Speaker Series Session.)
Setting Up High-Impact Tasks in Elementary School Math Centers is an Edutopia article by Polly Wagner and Janice Szymaszek that explains how, “math workshop can become integral to the creation of equitable math classrooms and be a place for students to develop strong habits of mind alongside math competencies.” (5/24/24)
Moving Beyond Status in Math Class (Sunkle and Wagner, 2023) explains how “focusing on ideas rather than individual students…can move [math teachers] beyond assumptions that some kids are ‘good’ at math
Choral Counting and Counting Collections (Franke et. al., 2018) explores ways in which two routines can transform your elementary math classroom, your students’ math understanding, and your partnerships with families.
But Why Does It Work? (Schifter and Russell, 2017) explores how to integrate mathematical argument into elementary math instruction.
Connecting Arithmetic to Algebra (Schifter and Russell, 2011) illustrates how investigating the behavior of whole number operations can move K–6 students forward.
