Engagement Prompts Learning: Context-Rich Projects and Puzzles for Instruction and Assessment

Types of games, projects, and puzzles useful for developing students' curiosity about mathematical relationships, and their content knowledge, reasoning methods, and persistence in solving problems, will be presented. Strategies for using these activities to assess depths of understanding, along with grouping methods, also will be addressed.

General Interest

Building on Students’ Strengths: Practices That Challenge, Engage, and Empower