To become fluent readers, students must learn to read both words and punctuation. To become flexible math thinkers, they must learn to understand both numbers and math symbols.
Initially, young mathematicians often interpret the equals sign as a signal meaning “the answer comes next.” To help them understand that the equals sign more accurately means “is the same as,” students in Room 123 are often challenged to evaluate more complex equations.
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