Higher Order Thinking Activities

This year I am implementing a lot of higher order thinking activities this year with my students.  Every morning before each lesson I ask myself the following:

What should students know?

What are students able to do now?

How will I measure success?

How will I monitor progress?

It is imperative that for students to understand their thought process and successfully solve math problems that I allow/create opportunities in which students are not just trying to answer correctly but are able to identify what is not correct about a problem and determine what went wrong and how could it be resolved.   Below was a lesson regarding Common Core State Standard 5.NBT.5: students’ ability to multiply multi-digit whole numbers. In this lesson students had the option to determine and explain the errors made by Brian or Jermaine using a foldable or a Venn Diagram.  Some students made the choice to identify the errors of both Brain and Jermaine. 
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