Math Practices
Eight Effective Teaching Practices are described that help teachers engage students in the habits of mind highlighted in the Mathematical Practices, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 2014
Standards for Mathematical Practice
Mathematically proficient students: 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. Choose appropriate tools strategically 6. Attend to precision 7. Look for and make use of structure 8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning |
Effective Mathematics Educators:
1. Establish mathematical goals that focus learning 2. Implement tasks that promote reasoning and problem solving 3. Use and connect mathematical representations 4. Facilitate meaningful mathematical discourse 5. Pose purposeful questions 6. Build procedural fluency from conceptual understanding 7. Support productive struggle in learning mathematics 8. Elicit and use evidence of student thinking |