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This resource from Produtive Math Struggle presents a productive struggle walkthrough tool for teacher behaviors, student behaviors, or both.

This free resource from Productive Math Struggle outlines how teachers can identify what is and isn't productive struggle. 

This resource from Strengths-Based Teaching and Learning gives teachers a strengths-based analysis template to record the strengths and challenges of any student or group.

This free resource from Strengths-Based Teaching and Learning in Mathematics gives teachers a sample letter for informing parents of their new aproach to teaching mathematics. 

"Zip, Zap, Zop" is a classic simple warm-up game, featured in Mathematical Argumentation in Middle School, that helps students understand that it is OK to make mistakes, speak so that everyone can hear, and pay close attention to one another.

In this task from Mine the Gap for Mathematical Understanding, Grades 6-8, students are provided with a true equation and asked to create three new equations based on a stated condition.

Using Audrey & Bruce Wood's book Ten Little Fish, students learn to count backward from 10 by 1s, a precursor for subtraction. This lesson appears in Numbers & Stories. (Elementary)

Learn how to use this Matrix featured in Realizing Rigor to refine strategies and select student actions. (Secondary)

Using this lesson from The Common Core Mathematics Companion, 6-8, students analyze proportional relationships and use them to solve real-world and mathematical problems (Secondary).

Students apply and extend previous understanding of multiplication and division to multiply and divide fractions using this lesson from The Common Core Mathematics Companion, 3-5. (Elementary)

Students extend their understanding of place value by bundling tens with this lesson from The Common Core Mathematics Companion, K-2. (Elementary)

You want to teach mathematics to students in the middle grades—but are you ready? Early adolescents have very unique characteristics that you need to be aware of and can capitalize on to facilitate productive lessons. Here are 6 tips from Lois Williams, author of The Mathematics Lesson-Planning Handbook, Grades 6-8, for teaching mathematics in the middle grades that capitalize on middle school students’ characteristics.