In Order to Reason Abstractly and Quantitatively?

David Miller
David Miller
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Reasoning Abstractly and Quantitatively Requires That Students Understand Multiple “Ways of Representing Numbers [And The] Relationships Among Numbers” (Nctm...

In Order to Reason Abstractly and Quantitatively?

Reasoning abstractly and quantitatively requires that students understand multiple “ways of representing numbers [and the] relationships among numbers” (NCTM

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2000, p. 32) as well as “understand meanings of operations and how they relate to one another” (p. 32).

Why is reason abstractly and quantitatively important?

Teachers who are developing students' capacity to "reason abstractly and quantitatively" help their learners understand the relationships between problem scenarios and mathematical representation, as well as how the symbols represent strategies for solution.

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What is reasoning quantitatively?

By one definition, quantitative reasoning (QR) is the application of basic mathematics skills, such as algebra, to the analysis and interpretation of real-world quantitative information in the context of a discipline or an interdisciplinary problem to draw conclusions that are relevant to students in their daily lives.

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