Going Deeper with the Common Core Standards for Mathematical Practice

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Objectives• Reflect on mathematics teaching and

learning habits• Explore a new teacher resource• Analyze math practice standards in a

video 

How is your school implementing the practice standards?

Math VisionYou should expect to see students working through partially formed (or even incorrect) ideas about mathematics. They also should expect to see teachers who are pushing their students to think like mathematicians— to justify their ideas, communicate with peers, and construct arguments, even if those arguments lead to some interesting tangents. These are all necessary steps for students to take as they develop enduring understandings about mathematics.The Right Equation for Math Teaching, Schifter and Granosky, 2012

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plans she could afford to make? Explain which option you think

Treena should select and why.

Process how you solved this task

CCSS Standards for Mathematical Practice

1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.

2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively.3. Construct viable arguments and critique the

reasoning of others.4. Model with mathematics.5. Use appropriate tools strategically.6. Attend to precision.7. Look for and make use of structure.8. Look for and express regularity in repeated

reasoning.

Common Core Math Practice Standards Survey

New Tool for schools and teachers Assess where you are at with teaching practice

standards

Analyzing Instruction from theCommon Core State Standards

Math Instruction that Supports the CCSS

Watch the video clip of a math classroom and look for evidence of how the teacher supports the development of the mathematical practices as well as evidence that the students display the practices.

1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively.3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of

others.4. Model with mathematics.5. Use appropriate tools strategically.6. Attend to precision.7. Look for and make use of structure.8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

Table Talk After viewing the math video, discuss the following

questions: Which mathematical practices were observed?

1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively.3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of

others.4. Model with mathematics.5. Use appropriate tools strategically.6. Attend to precision.7. Look for and make use of structure.8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

Going Deeper Questions connected to the math practice standards

Closing Processing, Next Steps Questions and Answers Reflections

"The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things

simple." S. Gudder

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