Focus in High School Mathematics: Reasoning and Sense Making

Today, NCTM announced the publication of NCTM’s Focus in High School Mathematics: Reasoning and Sense Making. This landmark book addresses high school mathematics by focusing on students’ reasoning and sense making, which are at the core of all mathematical learning and understanding.

Go online to learn more about Focus in High School Mathematics.
A set of Q&As and the news release are also posted online. You can purchase the book in print or electronic form, view sample pages, and download the Executive Summary as well as outreach brochures for teachers, administrators, policymakers, and families.

The first in a series of companion books will be published later this month. This book, Focus in High School Mathematics: Reasoning and Sense Making in Statistics and Probability, will be followed soon by books that offer examples of ways to make reasoning and sense making central in algebra and geometry.