Readings: Brahier (pp. 230-244); Progressions (The Number System, 6-8; High School, Number) – located in module content 

Reading Response 3: 

Respond to the following questions. 

1. Which of the Number Sense activities on pp. 239-243 would you use in instruction? Why?

2. From Achievethecore.org: "The Common Core State Standards in mathematics were built on progressions: narrative documents describing the progression of a topic across a number of grade levels, informed both by research on children's cognitive development and by the logical structure of mathematics. The progressions can explain why standards are sequenced the way they are, point out cognitive difficulties and pedagogical solutions, and give more detail on particularly knotty areas of the mathematics." 

Imagine that you are an 8th grade teacher.

a. What was one idea from the Progressions document about Grades 6 or 7 that would be important for you to know? Why would this be important?  

b. What was one idea from the Progressions document about High School that would be important for you to know? Why would this be important?