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All AboutDepth And Complexity

This framework for differentiation will give your students practical ways to think more deeply about a topic.

Featured Articles

Depth and Complexity Icons: Everything You Need to Know!

The dimensions of depth and complexity are a great first step towards a classroom differentiated for gifted learners. Learn the basics of these thinking tools and begin incorporating them into your lessons tomorrow!

Emoji as Digital Depth and Complexity Icons

While the official depth and complexity icons look great, they lead to all kinds of problems in the digital world and also take ownership away from students. Emoji are an elegant solution to both problems.

Depth or Complexity Alone Isn’t Deep Enough

You can use the prompts of depth and complexity yet still ask very shallow questions. Here's how to avoid this common pitfall…

Other Depth and Complexity Articles

Universal Themes in Math? With Fractions!?

What if we used a universal theme to guide our study of fractions? These very big ideas get students thinking about fractions in a new way.

Combining Depth and Complexity Prompts into a Generalization

Let’s start with a puzzlement, ask kids to generate an abstract statement, and then find evidence that their statement works across several different areas.

How To Introduce the Depth and Complexity Icons to Students

Here are a few ways that you can introduce the prompts of Depth and Complexity to a range of students (yes, even kindergartners!).

Making Our Own Depth and Complexity Icon Posters (That Emphasize Thinking)

Why I let students make their own depth and complexity posters rather than buying and displaying professional printable posters.

What could we do with this Wax Museum event?

How one might revamp a “Wax Museum” project into something that focuses more on thinking than product.

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