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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)

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.

"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.

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. 

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 excerpt from Strengths-Based Teaching and Learning in Mathematics outlines effective mathematics teaching principals and how to utilize strengths-based instruction.

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

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

This resource from Productive Math Struggle gives teachers a self inventory survey to assess where they are with productive struggle.

The foreword from Productive Math Struggle by Matt Larson introduces the topic of productive struggle and why it should be used in the classroom.

This excerpt from The Five Practices in Practice, High School, provides 'talk moves' designed to engage students in class discussions.

This excerpt from High School Mathematics Lessons to Explore, Understand, and Respond to Social Injustice gives teachers a chart of instructional strategies for teaching mathematics for social justice.