Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics exudes enthusiasm for
students, how they think, and how those thoughts coalesce into powerful
thinking classrooms. It’s also deeply practical, describing how everything
from the teacher’s questions to the arrangement of the furniture can add to
your students’ learning.
- Dan Meyer
The first was the realization that at no point in the three
days of observation had I seen Jane’s students do any thinking—at
least not the kind of thinking that we know students need to do to
continue to be successful in mathematics in future grades. This is
not to say that there was no activity. There was lots of activity—the
students were busy from the beginning of class to the end. They were
taking notes, answering questions, filling in worksheets, and starting
on their homework. They were busy. They just weren’t thinking.
- Building Thinking Classrooms in Math (p.4)