- provides an environment that helps students solve problems in a
set of easy-to-understand steps, roughly along the lines suggested
by the mathematician George Pólya
- focuses on important mathematics, including all strands of
the NCTM Standards for middle school mathematics
- comes with 18 problems that take from one to three class
periods to solve
- engages students with graphics- or video-based situations in
which fictional teenage characters encounter realistic mathematics
problems
- provides an entire suite of computer-based tools for solving
the problems (including spreadsheets, data tables, interactive geometric
sketches, and more)
- requires students to communicate their answers in writing,
which means that they must clarify and explain their thinking
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