Lainie Schuster

Lainie Schuster is a mathematics education author and coauthor of Good Questions for Math Teaching: Why Ask Them and What to Ask, Grades 5–8, a resource that offers hundreds of open-ended questions designed to promote students’ mathematical thinking, understanding, and proficiency in upper elementary and middle school classrooms. The book, published by Math Solutions/Heinemann, provides questions spanning multiple strands of mathematics, including number, measurement, geometry, probability, data analysis, and algebraic thinking, along with guidance to help teachers create and adapt their own “good questions” to support discussion and conceptual understanding.

Schuster’s work is widely cited in professional development materials and classroom lesson resources focused on using purposeful questions to help grades 5–8 students make sense of mathematics, address misconceptions, and engage with topics such as fractions, decimals, percents, and data analysis.