The Five Practices in Practice [Middle School]: Successfully Orchestrating Mathematics Discussions in Your Middle School Classroom

by Margaret (Peg) S. Smith, Miriam Gamoran Sherin

Take a deep dive into the five practices for facilitating productive mathematical discussions

Enhance your fluency in the five practices―anticipating, monitoring, selecting, sequencing, and connecting―to bring powerful discussions of mathematical concepts to life in your middle school classroom. This book unpacks the five practices for deeper understanding and empowers you to use each practice effectively. Includes planning templates, sample lesson plans and completed monitoring tools, and mathematical tasks.      

232 pages, Paperback

Published March 21, 2019

About the author

Margaret (Peg) Smith is a Professor Emerita at University of Pittsburgh. Over the past two decades she has been developing research-based materials for use in the professional development of mathematics teachers. She has authored or coauthored over 90 books, edited books or monographs, book chapters, and peer-reviewed articles including the best seller Five Practices for Orchestrating Productive Discussions (co-authored with Mary Kay Stein). She was a member of the writing team for Principles to Actions: Ensuring Mathematical Success for All and she is a co-author of two new books (Taking Action: Implementation Effective Mathematics Teaching Practices Grades 6-8 & 9-12) that provide further explication of the teaching practices first describe in Principles to Actions. She was a member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (2001-2003; 2003 – 2005), of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (2006-2009), and of Teachers Development Group (2009 – 2017).

Reviews

[Maura · Rating 4 out of 5]

I’m leading a book study on this book (and the others in the series) at work. 4 stars because 5 stars would mean I would recommend to anyone. 4 stars because I recommend this highly to any math teacher or educator who supports math teachers’ instructional practices.

Pro tip: if you read the elementary, middle and high school books at the same time, it’s like reading 3 books for the time of 2 due to all the overlap. ;)