When Am I Ever Going to Use This?
Common Core State Standards
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Math |
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Mathematical Practice Standards |
MP1 |
Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. Mathematically proficient students start by explaining to themselves the meaning of a problem and looking for entry points to its solution. They analyze givens, constraints, relationships, and goals. They make conjectures about the form and meaning of the solution and plan a solution pathway rather than simply jumping into a solution attempt. They consider analogous problems, and try special cases and simpler forms of the original problem in order to gain insight into its solution. They monitor and evaluate their progress and change course if necessary. Older students might, depending on the context of the problem, transform algebraic expressions or change the viewing window on their graphing calculator to get the information they need. Mathematically proficient students can explain correspondences between equations, verbal descriptions, tables, and graphs or draw diagrams of important features and relationships, graph data, and search for regularity or trends. Younger students might rely on using concrete objects or pictures to help conceptualize and solve a problem. Mathematically proficient students check their answers to problems using a different method, and they continually ask themselves, "Does this make sense?" They can understand the approaches of others to solving complex problems and identify correspondences between different approaches. |
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Length
1 minute
Objective
Explain why it is important to learn content
Questions to Consider
- How does Mr. Pack talk about making real-world connections?
- When can it be valuable to teach content that students may not ever directly use?
- How can explaining the importance of learning specific content engage students?
Watch all the videos in this series: Common Core Math: Differentiating for Special Education.
Teacher & School Info
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Chuck Pack
- School Details
- Tahlequah High School Tahlequah, OK
- Population
- 1,128 students
- District Spending
- $7,437
Supporting Materials
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