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Welcome to McLaughlin's Math Corner! Throughout the school year, I will be updating this website with information, websites, presentations, performance based instructional tasks and math based lesson plans. Please continue to check back each week!

= New Insights to Teaching Math ** : //Adjusting Mathematical Language to the Common Core// ** = **Implementing the new standards means //letting go of a lot of old habits//:** The problem: This is mathematically incorrect and leads to misconceptions. (Kappan article "Why the Common Core Changes Math Instruction" by Valerie Faulkner)
 * // **Old habit to eliminate: Defining equality as "same as"** //
 * **New habit to adopt: Defining equality as "same value as"**
 * **For example, 3 + 4 tells a different math story than 4 + 3, but they yield the same value of 7**

** Cool New Websites: ** ** [|Learn Zillion] **