For our action research in the masters of education program we are going to make a change in our classroom.  We are currently doing professional development in the math department at Blaine that has to do with critical thinking.  We have looked at the benefits of using higher order thinking in our curriculum.  The change that I would like to make is to implement critical thinking activities in my lessons.  I would like to put higher cognitive level problems on the homework and tests in which the students have to think in a different way to solve the problem and then explain their reasoning.