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The CPM Connections curriculum since its inception has been based on three principles of course design that are based solidly on the methodological research in teaching mathematics:
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Students learn best engaged in inquiry that leads to deep conceptual understanding of the underlying mathematics, exploiting each others' insights, and using distributed learning to increases retention and transfer of knowledge;
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The CPM Connections series integrates basic skills and procedures with conceptual understanding, encouraging students to understand ideas, see relationships between them, and apply mathematical principles to complex problems; and
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Students are held responsible for high academic rigor, analysis, and critical thinking, and communicate their mathematical findings in writing or in oral presentations in a clear and convincing manner.
The CPM Connections series predates the CCSS Standards for Mathematical Practice by several years, yet the practices advocated by the Standards are naturally integrated as a core foundation throughout the entire CPM curriculum.
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CCSS Standards for Mathematical Practice
1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
4. Model with mathematics.
5. Use appropriate tools strategically
6. Attend to precision.
7. Look for and make use of structure.
8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning. |
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