The goal of this series is to use teachers' accounts of classroom inquiry to make public and explicit the processes ofdoing research in classrooms. Teaching is a complex, multi-faceted task, and this complexity often is not captured in researcharticles. Our goal is to illuminate this complexity. Research that is done in classrooms by and with teachers is necessarilymessy, and our stance is that the ways in which this is so should be articulated, not hidden.Through the chapters in this volume we learn about the questions that capture the attention of teachers, the methodologiesthey use to gather data, and the ways in which they make sense of what they find. Some of the research findings could beconsidered preliminary, others confirmatory, and some may be groundbreaking. In all cases, they provide fodder for furtherthinking and discussion about critical aspects of mathematics education.