NCTM standards consider problem solving to be the focus of mathematical instruction. The scenarios students encounter in Real-Life Math Investigations are familiar and very real to them because the topics focus on problems of their everyday world.Students develop their own strategies and plans for solving the problems they face. The open-ended nature of many of the problems steers students away from looking for a single correct answer. Common sense and logic help them to determinewhether their answer makes sense. Skills include whole-number operations, graphing, geometry, fractions, logic, algebra, probability, and more. A number of math skills are required in each activity. 48 pp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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