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As we begin to consider how to design and deliver instruction that meets the requirements of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, it is critical that we not progress with business as usual.  These new standards offer an opportunity to refocus our mathematics instruction in a manner that allows more students to achieve.  They offer us an opportunity to re-energize the...

Posted by Lauri Susi on Apr. 5, 2011

The Standards of Mathematical Practice describe the “processes and proficiencies” that maximize students’ deep and lasting conceptual understanding in mathematics.

The first listed Standard of Mathematical Practice is “Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.” The process of making sense of anything involves (a) evaluating it yourself first; (...

Posted by Robyn Silbey on Mar. 22, 2011

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