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What you can expect
from a Mathematics Class
If you know
the goals instructors are setting for you and themselves
it will help you be a better learner and student. These
goals are adopted from those endorsed by national
mathematics organizations as well as your mathematics
department.
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To learn
to:
- value mathematics
- communicate mathematically
- reason mathematically
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To become:
confident in your ability
to do mathematics
mathematical problem
solvers.
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To help
students:
- work together to
make sense of mathematics
- To rely more on
themselves to determine whether something is
mathematically correct
- learn to reason
mathematically
- learn to conjecture,
invent, and solve problems
- to connect mathematics
its ideas, and its applications
- learn to accept
responsibility for their own learning by creating an
environment to foster this responsibility.
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Include
tasks that:
mathematical concepts or
skills
capture students’
curiosity
invite students to
speculate and to pursue their hunches
nest skills development
into the context of problem solving.
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are some assumptions your teachers should make about
teaching you mathematics. |
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- The goal of teaching
mathematics is to help all students develop mathematical
power
- What students learn is
fundamentally connected with how they learn it
- All students can learn to
think mathematically
- Teaching is a complex practice
and hence not reducible to recipes or prescriptions
- Some mathematics becomes more
important because technology requires it
- Some mathematics becomes less
important because technology replaces it
- Some mathematics becomes
possible because technology allows it.
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