1. PROBLEM SOLVING CHECKLIST
|Read:
List the information in the problem
Identify key facts
Identify and write the question asked
There may be more than you need
If data is missing, see if you can find it in a reference
You may need to answer a hidden question to find it

2. Use units to give meaning to measurement
STUDENTS WILL:
Determine what can be measured and how, using appropriate methods and formulas
Use units to give meaning to measurement
Understand that all measurement contain error and be able to determine its significance

3. STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY
STUDENTS WILL:
Collect, organize, display, and analyze data
Make predictions based on data analysis
Understand and apply concepts of probability

4. PROBLEM SOLVING STUDENTS WILL:
Build new mathematical knowledge through problem solving
Solve problems that exist in mathematics and other context
Apply and adapt a variety of appropriate strategies to solve problems
Monitor and reflect on the process of mathematical problem solving

5. REASONING AND PROOF STUDENTS WILL:
Recognize reasoning and proof as fundamental aspects of mathematics
Make and investigate mathematical conjectures
Develop and evaluate mathematical arguments and proofs
Select and use various types of reasoning and methods of proof

6. COMMUNICATION STUDENTS WILL:
Organize and consolidate their mathematical thinking through communication
Communicate their mathematical thinking coherently and clearly to peers, teachers, and others
Analyze and evaluate the mathematical thinking and strategies of others
Use the language of mathematics to express mathematical thinking precisely

7. CONNECTIONS STUDENTS WILL:
Recognize and use connections among mathematical ideas
Understand how mathematical ideas interconnect and build on one another to produce a coherent whole
Recognize and apply mathematics in context outside of mathematics

8. REPRESENTATION STIDENTS WILL:
Create and use representations to organize, record, and communicate mathematical ideas
Select, apply, and translate among mathematical representations to solve problems
Use representations to model and interpret, physical, social, and mathematical phenomena

9. Plan: How can you solve the problem
Choose a strategy or strategies to try
You may need more than one:
Act it out - Draw a picture
Work backward - Find a pattern
Solve a simpler -Make an organized
Problem list
Interpret data - Guess, Test & Revise
Choose the
operation - Use a model

10. Solve:
How can you carry out your plan?
Tell what you did, what tool you used, why, and how
Look Back:
Have you answered the question?
Does your answer make sense?