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Author:Paul Griffith
Description: Two courses, each encouraging progressively more modeling, algorithm invention, strategy making, and abstraction. Course I covers operations, number properties, order of operations, grouping, factoring, fractions, averaging, probability, number bases, place value, congruence and symmetry, patterns, estimation, angles and shapes, graphing, area, segment strips, and geoboards. Course II covers cubic units, writing formulas, grouping for writing equations, grouping for generalizing, polygons, paperfolding, modeling statistical terms, modeling mathematical relationships, comparing quantities, making decisions from samples, describing patterns with formulas and models, inventing equation solving methods, establishing the Pythagorean Theorem, solids, and similarity and scaling.
Levels: Elementary, Middle School (6-8), High School (9-12)
Languages: English
Resource Types: Courses, Tutorials
Math Topics: Basic Algebra, Basic Operations, Estimation, Exponents/Roots, Factors, Fractions/Decimals/Percents, Patterns/Relationships, Problem-Solving, Algorithms, Polyhedra, Euclidean Plane Geometry, Symmetry/Tessellations, Probability, Statistics
Math Ed Topics: Modeling

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