Welcome, you are visiting GBMP 2

GBMP 2 Resources

About MSPnet

MSPnet is created and facilitated by the Center for School Reform at TERC. This site is supported by the National Science Foundation. Opinions expressed on this site are those of the contributors and not necessarily those of the Foundation.

Building Facility with Numbers: Grade-Level-Appropriate Expectations for Mental Computation

Author:

Ruth Parker

Working doc:

Mathematics Education Collaborative

Drafted:

2002

Link:

Download PDF File

Description

This document from the Mathematics Education Collaborative (MEC) defines Mathematically Powerful Students, and provides a guideline for how to prepare children to successfully use mental computation and estimation as essential skills for making sense of numerical information that surrounds us on a daily basis.

Posted to Site:

01/25/2012