FAQS About standards based learning with solving with Pythagoras decks and teacher manual for cooperative learning

SOLVING WITH Pythagoras encourages students to make decisions about triangles, talk about the reasoning supporting these decisions, and then write about the results. The 2000 NCTM Principles and Standards publication outlines learning goals that include student activities to incorporate classifying, explaining, and describing the significant elements of student comprehension.

SOLVING WITH Pythagoras asks students the first question, “Is it a triangle?” and then follows up with questions about triangle properties such as, “What kind of triangle is it?” and “What are the side and angle relationships?” and “What are your conjectures?”

SOLVING WITH Pythagoras brings critical thinking and math literacy to any classroom though the use of classroom ready activity cards with Decision Mats for classifying triangles using specific properties. Students are given a structured opportunity in a classroom setting to first report their group findings and then learn how to express an effective question to address the class as a whole.

Give your students the learning benefits of
· Making Connections,
· Making Conjectures, and
· Using Number Sense and Relational Thinking.

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