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.
All AboutDepth And Complexity
This framework for differentiation will give your students practical ways to think more deeply about a topic.
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.
Homeschooling With Depth and Complexity
A brain dump for ideas about using Depth and Complexity while homeschooling.
Thinking Like Equivalent Fractions
Go across disciplines by asking students to write a story about fraction equivalence.
Depth and Complexity Frames: My Big Mistake
Frames, a graphic organizer often used with the Depth and Complexity framework, have one big trap that I fell into for years.
Depth and Complexity: đź“šAcross Disciplines
The Across Disciplines prompt asks students to think about how this topic intersects with other fields as well as with other topics within the same field.
Depth and Complexity: ⏳Change Over Time
It’s quite easy to “use” Depth and Complexity and yet have low-level thinking at the same time. Here’s why it’s so important to make sure that our use of Depth and Complexity is truly changing students’ thinking.
Depth and Complexity: âť“Unanswered Questions
By far, âť“Unanswered Questions was the prompt that I under-utilized with my own class. Now I see it in a whole new light, and boy is there immense power in prompting students to note and explore truly unanswered questions.