I just attended an AMTE session on the Common Core State Standards and math teacher education. The panelists and audience listed many immediate needs as we plan how to implement the standards; the one that caught my ear was the need to align the Mathematical Practice Standards to the work that’s already been done, like the NCTM practices and the “Adding it Up” strands.
I figured that I could at least align the work I’ve already been doing about developing activity structures for teaching problem-solving and problem-solving strategies to the process standards. Here’s my first attempt at that.