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Common Core State Standards Initiative | Mathematics | Introduction | Standards for Mat... - 0 views

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  • Mathematically proficient students can explain correspondences between equations, verbal descriptions, tables, and graphs or draw diagrams of important features and relationships, graph data, and search for regularity or trends
  • the ability to contextualize, to pause as needed during the manipulation process in order to probe into the referents for the symbols involved. Quantitative reasoning entails habits of creating a coherent representation of the problem at hand; considering the units involved; attending to the meaning of quantities, not just how to compute them; and knowing and flexibly using different properties of operations and objects.
  • They justify their conclusions, communicate them to others, and respond to the arguments of others.
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  • In middle grades, a student might apply proportional reasoning to plan a school event or analyze a problem in the community. By high school, a student might use geometry to solve a design problem or use a function to describe how one quantity of interest depends on another. Mathematically proficient students who can apply what they know are comfortable making assumptio
  • Mathematically proficient students at various grade levels are able to identify relevant external mathematical resources, such as digital content located on a website, and use them to pose or solve p
  • roblems. They are able to use technological tools to explore and deepen their understanding of concepts.
  • In the elementary grades, students give carefully formulated explanations to each other. By the time they reach high school they have learned to examine claims and make explicit use of definitions.
  • seth_mitchell on 27 Feb 12
     
    Plenty of opportunities in these math standards for reflection, publication, revision, and collaboration.
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OMG! Survey, like, says digital-savvy students are good at writing! - latimes.com - 0 views

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  • more than two-thirds of their students had fair or poor abilities to digest long and complicated texts and understand plagiarism issues
  • found such advantages as greater creativity, personal expression and increased collaboration
  • promoted a deeper interest in writing because students could see their works published in such online forums as http://www.figment.com
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  • Sometimes, good old-fashioned pen and paper are the best way
  • English teachers were far more positive toward digital tools for writing — nearly two-thirds said it made teaching easier — than colleagues teaching math, science and social studies.
  • technology is not the most important element in promoting good student writing
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