Standards

While reading through the CCSSM Standards, I mostly focused on Attend to Precision and Look for and Make Use of Structure, as those were the two main standards my group would be working with. There were two main points from Attend to Precision that really stuck out to me. One was how important it is for students to be able to communicate their work to other students/colleagues. The second most important part of this standard was seeing how communicating work should vary through grade levels. For example, younger students should be able to state clear definitions and meanings, while older students should then be able to examine these claims and use them explicitly. There were also two important factors that stuck out to me from Look for and Make Use of Structure. One was how even younger students can start to realize that their is structure in their mathematics. For example, if a student's flashcard had the problem 3+4=7, they can also realize that 7-4=3. Secondly, with older students, they can begin to visualize the structure in more advanced algebraic equations, making it ultimately easier for them to begin and end a problem with many different components.