Anytime you plan to do a thinking-focused task with students, it is important to try it yourself in the role of a learner to experience the thinking process and predict the mathematical approaches students might try.  Go to www.visualpatterns.org and pick one of the patterns, or create your own.  Try to find several different ways to generate the rule for the repetition in your pattern.  Pay attention to your process and materials and tell us about the experience.

This routine makes use of “Ask-Yourself Questions” to help students hunt for repetition in their process of counting, calculating, or constructing.  What “Ask-Yourself Questions” do you use with your students already or will you start using?

SMP 8 “Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning” has been one of the more challenging MPs for some educators.  What ideas from chapter 5 on the Recognizing Repetition Routine helps extend your thinking or push it in a new direction?

Representation is an important component of curriculum and standards (NCTM & Common Core) for all math grade levels.  Think of an example task from your grade level where the Connecting Representations routine would be applicable.  If you implemented it with your students, tell us how it went.

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The teacher in the extended vignette, Mr. Smith, uses display materials and certain handouts during the lesson.  How do Mr. Smith’s decisions about how many handouts to provide engage the individuals and groups within his class?  How would you do it with your students?

Annotation is a powerful instructional strategy.  Reflect on how you have used it in your teaching OR tell us how you plan to use it.

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Think of an example task from your grade level where this routine would be fruitful for your teaching OR try implementing the routine with your students and tell us how it went. 

If you want to share a task with the group, send a document, photo, or link to atomicbookclub@gmail.com and I will set up a shared google drive folder for the materials.

Use this sentence frame to connect the Capturing Quantities routine to what you already think or do in your teaching practice:

As you read through the steps of the Capturing Quantities routine and the extended class vignette, what is a question or two you have about the details?