Visible Thinking Activities: 23 Lessons for Problem Solving

Visible Thinking Activities provides teachers with rich opportunities to motivate and engage students in learning mathematics using high-interest problems designed to make students' thinking "visible." Following the approaches outlined in this book, teachers can quickly analyze students' conceptual understandings and identify their misconceptions for immediate and appropriate intervention. Each of the 23 lessons presents a problem with multiple variations for greater conceptual understanding of the underlying mathematics. Problems are aimed at students in grades 5 through 8 but are easily adaptable for the upper or lower grades. Includes an interactive CD for whiteboard presentation.