Project Based Learning (PBL), also referred to as Project Based Instruction (PBI), is an instructional framework that embeds the development of content knowledge and success skills within a cohesive and engaging unit. The learning goals of a PBL unit focus on students' acquisition of key knowledge, understanding, and success skills. Seven essential elements of PBI exist in tandem throughout a unit: Challenging Problem or Question, Sustained Inquiry, Authenticity, Student Voice and Choice, Reflection, Critique and Revision, and Public Product (Gold Standard PBL: Essential Project Design Elements, n.d.). In PBL, students develop knowledge and skills by investigating rich, open-ended questions to “make meaning” of the world and apply their learning in purposeful ways (Krauss & Boss, 2013). Thus, the teacher of a PBL unit designs, prepares, and guides meaningful projects, elicits higher-order thinking, and assesses growth throughout the entire learning process -- all of which are ideals within mathematics teaching practice.