"What employers need, is people who can ask good questions, set up models, analyze results, and interpret the mathematical answers.

It used to be that employers needed people to calculate; they no longer need this. What they need is people to THINK and REASON.

Explaining your work is what, in mathematics, we call reasoning, and REASONING IS CENTRAL to the discipline of mathematics." (Jo Boaler)

The BIG Question: How can we get students to think deeeeeply about mathematics and how topics relate to one another?!