Routines for Reasoning Institute: Redesigning Classroom Interactions to Foster Math Reasoning
This 3-day Institute is designed to equip educators with the knowledge and skills to be able to cultivate students’ perseverance in problem-solving and enhance students’ mathematical discourse. Participants will develop their facility with the three avenues of mathematical thinking as elicited by the Standards for Mathematical Practice from the Common Core State Standards. Employing these avenues of mathematical thinking will allow participants to deepen their understanding of what it looks like to think quantitatively, structurally, and/or through repetition. Participants will learn two instructional routines that elicit these thinking skills and will learn how to integrate these routines into their own practice, regardless of school, district, or personally identified curriculum. Through this course, participants will develop a deep understanding of how five research-based strategies (ask yourself questions, sentence frames and starters, annotation, the Four R’s, and turn-and-talks) can be used to help students develop mathematical thinking and reasoning skills. Finally, participants will develop one network of working professionals who are in like positions and can be a network of support for one another as participants learn to enact these routines.