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Students learn what mathematics is and how one does it through their classroom instruction and the mathematical tasks they explore. Student learning is greatest when students have regular opportunities to engage with high-level or cognitively challenging tasks that engage students in thinking, reasoning, and problem solving and are essential to developing students' conceptual understanding of mathematics.

How do you help students develop the capacity to think, reason, and problem solve, but your curricular resources don't have many high-level, cognitively demanding tasks?  Learn to modify existing tasks for higher-level thinking!

This On-Your-Feet-Guide provides:
¿ 8 Key Strategies for modifying low-level procedural tasks and transforming them into high-level thinking tasks.
¿ Examples across grades K-12
¿ Opportunities to practice modifying tasks and reflect on how the modified versions better meet students' learning needs
¿ Helpful hints to set your tasks up for ultimate success.

On-Your-Feet Guides (OYFGs) provide you with the ultimate "cheat sheet" to implement effective change in your classroom while in the moment of teaching. Designed for accessibility, and providing step-by-step guidance, the OYFGs are written by experts who take research-based practices and make them doable for the busy teacher. 
Each On-Your-Feet Guide is laminated, 8.5"x11" tri-fold (6 pages), and 3-hole punched.
Use On-Your-Feet Guides
¿ When you know the "what" but need help with the "how"
¿ As a quick reference to support a practice you learned in a PD workshop or book
¿ To learn how to implement foundational practices
¿ When you want to help your students learn a specific strategy, routine, or approach, but aren't sure how to do it yourself

Margaret (Peg) Smith is a Professor Emerita at University of Pittsburgh. Over the past three decades she has been developing research-based materials for use in the professional development of mathematics teachers. She has coauthored several books including Five Practices for Orchestrating Productive Discussions (with Mary Kay Stein), the middle and high school versions of the Taking Action series (with Melissa Boston, Fredrick Dillon, Stephen Miller, and Lynn Raith), and The 5 Practices in Practice: Successfully Orchestrating Mathematics Discussion in Your Classroom series (with Victoria Bill, Miriam Gameron Sherin, and Michael Steele). In 2006 she received the Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award given annually to honor outstanding faculty at the University of Pittsburgh. In 2009 she received the award for Excellence in Teaching in Mathematics Teacher Education from AMTE. In April 2019 she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from NCTM.