Review Questions

Chapter 2: Focusing Instruction on Key Ideas and Key Processes

1. What is the value in describing key ideas explicitly rather than using them only implicitly?
2. Give examples of situations that show why the concept that patterns underlie other aspects of mathematics is a key concept.
3. Discuss how the processes of visualization and representation are alike and how they differ.
4. Give a variety of examples to show how the process of reasoning applies to all content strands.
5. Give a variety of examples to show how the process of representation applies to all content strands.