CI 754X FALL 2000Mara Alagic Mathematics: Everyone’s future Principles and Standards for School Mathematics (short overview)

CI 754X FALL 2000Mara Alagic NCTM: The Standards for school mathematics explicate the mathematical understanding, skills, and knowledge that students should acquire and provide a common framework in designing instructional programs.

CI 754X FALL 2000Mara Alagic The six Principles Equity Curriculum Teaching Learning Assessment, and Technology

CI 754X FALL 2000Mara Alagic The Teaching Principle Effective mathematics teaching requires understanding what students know and need to learn and then challenging and supporting them to learn it well.

CI 754X FALL 2000Mara Alagic The Learning Principle Students must learn mathematics with understanding, actively building new knowledge from experience and previous knowledge.

CI 754X FALL 2000Mara Alagic The five Content Standards: Number and Operations Patterns, Functions, and Algebra Geometry and Spatial Sense Measurement, and Data Analysis and Probability

CI 754X FALL 2000Mara Alagic The five Process Standards Problem Solving, Reasoning and Proof, Communication, Connections, and Representations.

CI 754X FALL 2000Mara Alagic Representation standard Instructional programs from prekindergarten through grade 12 should enable all students to – –Create and use representations to organize, record, and communicate mathematical ideas; –Select, apply, and translate among mathematical representations to solve problems; –Use representations to model and interpret physical, social, and mathematical phenomena.

CI 754X FALL 2000Mara Alagic Both the Content and Process Standards are encompassed in each of the four grade bands: pre K-grade 2 grades 3-5 grades 6-8, and grades Frame