Math Solutions MathVentures: 33 Teacher–Coach Investigations to Grow Students as Mathematicians, A Coaching Guide featuring Math Solutions’Instructional Practices Inventory (IPI)

Partner up with a teacher or teacher team and get ready for an exciting exploration of math teaching and learning where teachers and students experience the joy of engaging in rigorous mathematics.

Your compass is the Math Solutions’ Instructional Practices Inventory (IPI), a framework for strengthening mathematics instruction. It comprises thirty-three teacher and student practices organized into four broad categories essential to effective mathematics teaching and learning:

1. Learning Environment
2. Reasoning and Sense Making
3. Focus and Coherence
4. Formative Assessment

The MathVentures process uniquely involves choosing a specific focus from the IPI and then planning, implementing, and evaluating a classroom investigation around this focus.

Follow the journeys of any of thirty-three teacher–coach partnerships as they navigate their investigations of specific teacher or student practices. Then, map out your own MathVenture through six action-oriented steps:

1. Step 1. Understand the Practice
2. Step 2. Determine the Investigation Question, Classroom Data to Collect, and Collection Process
3. Step 3. Choose a Student Learning Goal and Teacher Action to Reach That Goal
4. Step 4. Integrate Professional Learning Experiences
5. Step 5. Implement Teacher Action and Collect Data
6. Step 6. Analyze and Reflect on Classroom Data

Connects to and includes access to 8 video clips drawn from some of Math Solutions’ all-time favorite publications, from Number Talks to Talk Moves.