Open Middle tasks offer a powerful way to make student thinking visible. With multiple solution paths, these problems highlight how students reason, plan, and adjust their strategies—not just whether they arrive at the correct answer. This structure promotes productive struggle, sparks math discourse, and provides teachers with rich formative insights that support responsive instruction and deeper conceptual understanding.
I have been in education for 35 years. I taught 8th Math for 17 years, then became campus administrator, district administrator and for the last 10 years have served as a Math Curriculum Support Consultant for Region 10.
Thursday July 23, 2026 11:20am - 12:15pm CDT Room 301
