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Routines for Reasoning and Teaching for Thinking make it easy to get started with instructional routines in math. Together, they provide total support for helping students develop their mathematical reasoning skills. In total, you'll get six "reasoning routines" along with guidance for designing your own. These routines provide a familiar, accessible structure that helps all students engage more fully in learning opportunities while building crucial mathematical thinking habits.

Routines for Reasoning provides expert guidance for weaving the Standards for Mathematical Practice into your teaching by harnessing the power of classroom-tested instructional routines. This book includes chapters on the following reasoning routines:

• Capturing Quantities: encouraging abstract and quantitative reasoning
• Connecting Representations: noticing and using mathematical structure
• Recognizing Repetition: developing repeated reasoning skills
• Three Reads: starting and sustaining thinking in problem solving situations

Teaching for Thinking picks up where Routines for Reasoning left off. Grace and Amy draw on their years of experience in the classroom and as instructional coaches to examine how educators can make use of routines to make critical shifts in teaching practice. This book includes chapters on the following reasoning routines:

• Decide and Defend: supports constructing arguments and critiquing reasoning
• Contemplate Then Calculate: focuses on structural thinking