Unit 8: A summary

- Create a classroom environment where students are comfortable making mistakes and willing to persevere with problems.
- Make Math Talks an integral part of teaching, where students explain their thinking and listen to each other.
- Give students deep, broad, open-ended problems that they can't solve instantly.
- Encourage them to find out what they need to know to solve problems.
- Make maths fun. Help students think of the maths problems as puzzles.
- Encourage students to look for patterns and generalisations, and develop their skills in describing them.
- Encourage students to play with math. If they've found a solution, encourage them to change the problem in different ways to give themselves a challenge.
- Encourage students to find more than one way of solving a problem.
- Emphasise the process, not the answers.
- Show the relevance of math in everyday life