1 Identify some important considerations for teachers who wa

1. Identify some important considerations for teachers who want to foster their students’ mathematical thinking and problem solving.

2. “Model with mathematics” is one of the standards in CCSSM.

From the technology resources below or from your own Internet Resources, name at least three links (URLs) that would address this standard in the teaching of problem-solving skills.

Solution

1.Teaching approaches should allow for different methods and offer students opportunities to identify elegant or efficient solutions.

Teachers need to create an atmosphere in which students are involved in a community developing appropriate language to enhance communication as a vehicle for sharing ideas and individual and communal sense making

Teachers will need to identify resources and contexts that support the needs of the student and the ordered development of skills by utilising (for example) gradients of similarity and complexity

2. www.corestandards.org

https://www.teachingchannel.org

www.cde.ca.gov