The Importance of Mathematical Practices

[apeleducators]

A+PEL will be giving training sessions on the Common Core in Louisiana. Be sure to visit our website, facebook, and youtube channel to view our sessions.

[wernermath]

Thanks for these videos; they are helping me understand the new standards. You say that students should learn to use technology strategically, but that technology shouldn't "do the math." As a high school math teacher, I would love for the standards to be more specific about this. It is certainly not possible/necessary to do everything by hand anymore, but where do we draw the line? For example, should we still teach students to factor polynomials using the Rational Roots Theorem?

Colleen