Common Core Math: Standards for Mathematical Practice

District Strategic Goal #1: Continuously Improve Student Growth and Achievement

The Standards for Mathematical Practice describe varieties of expertise that mathematics educators at all levels should seek to develop in their students. These practices rest on important “processes and proficiencies” with longstanding importance in mathematics education. The first of these are the NCTM process standards of problem solving, reasoning and proof, communication, representation, and connections. The second are the strands of mathematical proficiency specified in the National Research Council’s report Adding It Up: adaptive reasoning, strategic competence, conceptual understanding (comprehension of mathematical concepts, operations and relations), procedural fluency (skill in carrying out procedures flexibly, accurately, efficiently and appropriately), and productive disposition (habitual inclination to see mathematics as sensible, useful, and worthwhile, coupled with a belief in diligence and one’s own efficacy). Source~http://www.carrollk12.org/instruction/instruction/elementary/math/curriculum/common/ 

The Standards for Mathematical Practice describe behaviors that all students across all grade levels will develop in the Common Core Standards. These practices rest on important “processes and proficiencies” including problem solving, reasoning and proof, communication, representation, and making connections. These practices will allow students to understand and apply mathematics with confidence.

Mathematical Practice Standards {Freebie!}. I think that if you laminated it onto a larger piece of poster board and put a Velcro dot next to each standard, you could add an arrow that could be moved around to point to the standard you are working on that day.... :)

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