Over more than a decade, the author has developed a 14-point plan for encouraging students to engage deeply with math content.
In too many classrooms, students aren't really thinking. It's time to try something different.
The researcher Peter Liljedahl evangelizes for practices that prioritize and stimulate more hard thinking in classrooms.
TeachThought promotes critical thinking and innovation in K-12 classrooms
One of the hardest things about building thinking classrooms is coming up with tasks for your kids to do because before you know it, it's back to a session and you're like, oh my gosh, what task am I going to do? Do you need a fancy task? Of course not. The goal is that your students will engage in any task. But sometimes you just want a little spice, you know, you want to add something extra so I'm going to walk you through how I think about tasks. I'm going to walk you through a second-grade e
Showing students that we can use flexible thinking in math is powerful. Many kids believe that it is about getting right answers. It's not!
There are endless ways to use Hexagonal Thinking in your classroom! Here are some examples, and even a time-saving suggestion for using AI!
This lesson has everything you need to teach a "Thin Slicing" lesson on defining functions from tables, graphs, and real-world scenarios for 8th grade math. This lesson with printable task cards uses Building Thinking Classrooms strategies for teaching math created by Peter Liljedahl. If you have be...
How do you know if your students are thinking critically in the classroom? Here are examples that might be good indicators.
A year long journal about implementing Building Thinking Classrooms in Middle School I teach two classes of Accelerate 7th Grade Math and two classes of Inclusion 8th Grade Math. This is a journal of my experience starting BTC with both classes. **Updated April 18, 2024** Week One - August 21, 2023 My plan was to…
I presented these ideas at Twitter Math Camp 14 in the flex session on Saturday afternoon. Let me be clear, these great ideas belong to Pete...
Explaining math answers can be tricky. This post shares practical tips, ideas, and strategies to get your students to explaining answers in math.
This is the third in a series of posts highlighting classroom strategies that support long-term, profound learning, rather than short-term, superficial learning. The first post focused on the strategy of Retrieval Practice. The second post articulated the strategy of Brain Dumps. This post makes connections with Hexagonal Thinking. As we focus on Article V: Organizational Transformation we again…
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Use those crazy math fails to really kick your students critical thinking into mathmatical high gear! There's nothing like finding mistakes adults make to get kids thinking!!! Math, problem solving, math fails, critical thinking #math #thinking skills #mathmatical thinking skills
What does hexagonal thinking look like? Read on to see tangible examples of how you can use this thinking strategy in many ways!
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What is hexagonal thinking and how can you use it in the classroom? Check out these ideas and photos of hexagonal thinking in action.
Bloom's Taxonomy and Costa's Levels of Thinking Classroom Poster with Question Stems.Great resource to have on your wall. Makes for easy reference for you and your students. The poster defines each level and provides multiple question stems. Intended to be printed out in large poster size.
