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Standard 6: Attend to Precision

Clip 36/43: Standard 6: Attend to Precision Using Quadrilaterals Part C

Overview

Mathematically proficient students try to communicate precisely to others. They try to use clear definitions in discussion with others and in their own reasoning... By the time they reach high school they have learned to examine claims and make ... use of definitions.

Cathy Humphreys leads an extended exploration of a proof of the properties of quadrilaterals, helping students learn to investigate, formulate, conjecture, justify, and ultimately prove mathematical theorems. In this clip, she orients students to the task and explains how they are to communicate their ideas to one another in their group work. This clip is also indicative of standard 1 (make sense of problems & persevere in solving them).

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