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Welcome! I am a Gifted and Talented Facilitator for McCoy Elementary. Your scholar and I... This
year our class will explore a wide variety of mathematical ideas, and our goal
is for the mathematically gifted students to learn to value mathematics, become
confident in their own ability to do mathematics, become mathematical problem
solvers, learn to communicate mathematically, and learn to reason
mathematically. Problem
solving is the central focus of this class.
It is a process that will provide the context in which concepts and
skills will be learned. Students
will share their thinking and approaches with other students and with their
teacher, and will learn several ways of representing problems and strategies for
solving them. I hope they will
learn to value the process of solving problems as much as they value the
solutions. We
will explore the interconnectedness of the different branches of mathematics and
the relationship of mathematics to other fields and the world around us.
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