High Cognitive Demand Tasks & Resources
MARS Tasks - "The Mathematics Assessment Project aims to bring the Common Core State Standards (CCSSM) to life in a way that will help teachers and their students turn their aspirations for achieving them into classroom realities." Performance tasks related to content standards help to stretch students thinking with problem solving, critical thinking and perseverance.
Challenging math problems worth solving
"Open middle problems require a higher depth of knowledge than most problems that assess procedural and conceptual understanding. They support the Common Core State Standards and provide students with opportunities for discussing their thinking."
Robert Kaplinsky Math - Resources to challenge students thinking. Open-ended problem solving prompts and lessons to guide students through many levels of thinking. Resources are aligned by grade level.