Table of Contents
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Welcome
Module Overview
Pre-Assessment
Unit 1: Teaching and Learning the Standards for Mathematical Practice
Unit 2: Overarching Habits of Mind: MP1 and MP6
Unit 3: Reasoning and Explaining (MP2 and MP3)
3.0 Unpacking MP2 and MP3
3.1 Beginning to Reason: Definitions and Conjectures
3.2 Explaining and Justifying
Taxonomy of Questions in Mathematical Discourse
3.3 Identifying Flaws in Reasoning
3.4 Making Arguments More Viable
3.5 Summary
Unit 4: Modeling and Using Tools (MP4 and MP5)
Unit 5: Seeing Structure and Generalizing (MP7 and MP8)
Unit 6: Summary and Next Steps
Post-Assessment
Certificate of Completion
Glossary
Resources
Acknowledgements
Module Evaluation
Bookmarks (1)
Unit 1: Teaching and Learning the Standards for Mathematical Practice
The Eight SMP

There are eight mathematical practices. For a brief description of each, select the links below:
- Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them
- Reason abstractly and quantitatively
- Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others
- Model with mathematics
- Use appropriate tools strategically
- Attend to precision
- Look for and make use of structure
- Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning
Mathematics: Kindergarten through Grade Twelve (K–12) Standards for Mathematical Practice. Brought to you by the California Department of Education, the Regents of the University of California, and the California Mathematics Project.
For questions or feedback, please e-mail commoncoreteam@cde.ca.gov.