Making Sense of Mathematics for Teaching to Inform Instructional Quality

Discover a clear path for improving your instructional strategies for teaching mathematics at any grade level. Designed for individuals or collaborative teams, this practical resource introduces a set of rubrics -- the Instructional Quality Assessment (IQA) Toolkit -- that readers can rely on to help guide reflections, conversations, feedback, and planning. Also included is a series of short videos that showcase how to use the book's math strategies and tools in classrooms.

Ensure the instructional quality of your teaching strategies in mathematics:

• Utilize tasks, questions, and evidence (the TQE process) and the associated IQA rubrics as a road map for increasing instructional quality.
• Become familiar with the connection between efficient use of tasks and teacher questioning with increased student success.
• Learn how to gauge student response to tasks and lessons in order to understand student mastery of the material.
• Enhance your understanding of math strategies through hands-on activities.
• Access free online reproducibles for use in teaching mathematics in the classroom.

Contents:
About the Authors
Introduction

Part 1: Connecting to the T in TQE -- Tasks and Task Implementation
Chapter 1: Potential of the Task
Chapter 2: Implementation of the Task

Part 2: Connecting to the Q in TQE -- Questions and Their Role as Discourse Actions
Chapter 3: Teacher's Questions
Chapter 4: Teacher's Linking and Teacher's Press

Part 3: Connecting to the E in TQE -- Evidence of Students' Mathematical Work and Thinking
Chapter 5: Students' Linking and Students' Providing
Chapter 6: The IQA Toolkit as a Tool to Assess and Improve Instructional Practice

Epilogue: Next Steps
Appendix A: The IQA Toolkit
Appendix B: Suggested Answers for Activity 1.4
Appendix C: Suggested Answers for Activity 3.2
Appendix D: Additional Support for Rating Tasks
Appendix E: List of Figures and Videos
References and Resources
Index

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