1. Reflection on Practice explore a facet of teaching and how it relates to our work in our classrooms. using artifacts of practice lessons mathematical tasks videos of classrooms readings

2. Improving Mathematics Teaching (Stigler & Hiebert, 2004) At your table, go around and have each person respond to the question: What ideas did you find interesting in the article and why?

3. TIMSS Video Study (Grade 8) Tasks Implementation of Making Connections Tasks High Achieving

4. Hong Kong: Equations and Identities (3 periods) Goals tell the difference between an identity and an equation, prove whether a given equation is an identity, find the unknowns in a given identity, use the identities (a+b) 2 = a 2 +2ab+b 2 ; (a-b) 2 = a 2 - 2ab+b 2 ; (a-b)(a+b) = a 2 - b 2 in expanding and factorizing expressions. Began by solving 2x+4=x+6 and 2x+10 = 2(x+5).

5. Hong Kong: Identities in Algebra 1 What was different about the classroom from your expectations? What was the same? What surprised you?

6. Hong Kong: Identities in Algebra 1 Record the questions the teacher asked.

7. Hong Kong: Identities in Algebra 1 Record the questions the teacher asked. At your table, discuss the questions you wrote down and specifically, which, if any questions, struck you as important questions and why.

8. Reflection on Practice explore questions we ask as part of teaching and how we can use them to help students make connections on procedural problems and to engage in learning in a deeper way using artifacts of practice lessons mathematical tasks videos of classrooms readings

9. Homework Fill out the question survey in the folders at your table and bring it to class on Tuesday.