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Contributed Talk

Teaching and Learning Strategies

Building Thinking Classrooms: Engaging Students in Virtual Math Spaces

SESSION DATES & TIMES COMING IN AUGUST 2026
Audience Classification: Online Learning
Audience Expertise: All Levels - This session is intentionally designed to engage and provide value across experience levels-from beginners to seasoned leaders.
Grade Level Focus: Middle Schools, High Schools
Primary Audience: Teacher
Does this session focus on a specific product? No – This session is focused on ideas, strategies, or practices, not a specific product or service.
Abstract Description : In this session, I’ll draw on strategies from Peter Liljedahl’s Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics to show how to design lessons that promote deep thinking and conceptual understanding, where students within the math classroom are excited, curious and eager to engage with the curriculum. Participants will explore practical approaches to structuring tasks, fostering student reasoning, and cultivating a classroom culture where thinking is visible, valued, and celebrated. Attendees will leave with actionable strategies to create learners who are confident, motivated, and happy to engage in challenging mathematical concepts.

Learning Objectives:

  • At the end of this session, participants will be able to use strategies from Peter Lijedahl's Building Thinking Classroom in Mathematics to foster reasoning and collaboration in an online classroom environment that values thinking!
  • At the end of this session, participants will be able to implement practical techniques to motivate and empower students to confidently tackle challenging mathematical concepts.