Students will develop strategies for learning and problem solving while developing mathematical literacy and the deep understanding that mathematics makes sense.
They will use a range of numerical, algebraic, geometrical and statistical concepts and skills to formulate and solve authentic problems, communicating their reasoning in oral and written form.
Math curriculum is designed so that all students learn that math makes sense. By providing students the content, knowledge, skills, literacies, instructional methods, assessments and conditions to discover the big ideas and understandings of concepts through rigorous problems and investigations, students become mathematicians who can:
Explain and apply mathematical concepts and interpret and carry out mathematical procedures with precision and fluency,
Solve a range of complex well-posed problems in pure and applied mathematics,
Clearly and precisely construct viable arguments to support their own reasoning and to critiques the reasoning of others, and
Analyze complex, real-world scenarios and can construct and use mathematical models to interpret and solve problems.
~ From the Common Core State Standard Mathematical Practice Standards