PGR: Problem-Solving Curriculum

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PGR:  Problem-Solving

Course Overview

This course is designed to provide on-going opportunities for students to meet the Ledyard High School Performance Graduation Requirement in Problem-Solving.  To meet the graduation requirement, students must demonstrate an understanding of the context of a problem, utilize given information, and develop a strategy to solve the problem.  Students must communicate and structure their responses so that clear conclusions can be realized that include numerical, verbal, symbolic and/or graphical solutions.  At the end of the semester a trained school-based scoring committee will assess each student’s portfolio of work using the Ledyard High School Problem Solving Rubric.

I. Unit 1-Algebraic Reasoning:  Patterns and Functions

II.  Unit 2-Numerical and Proportional Reasoning

III. Unit 3-Geometry and Measurement

IV. Unit 4-Working with Data:  Probability and Statistics

 

Key to Coding:

In order to assure that this curriculum document is aligned with the most recent Connecticut State Frameworks, we have adopted a coding method to inform the user of this document of the precise connection to the frameworks.

The copy of the Connecticut State Frameworks (September 2005) consists of four strands, Algebraic Reasoning (AR), Numerical and Proportional Reasoning (NP), Geometry and Measurement (GM), and Probability and Statistics (PS).  Each strand is composed of an Essential Question and approximately four Performance Standards (PS) and approximately ten Expected Performances.

Each strand of the Grades 9-12 Frameworks is divided into a set of Core Performance Standards and Expected Performances and a set of Extended Performance Standards and Expected Performances.  The Core is the set of standards that the state expects every student to be able to know by the 10th grade.  The Extended is the set of standards that not all students will reach by the 10th grade, if at all.

Several examples of coding used in the document follow:

A Focus Question coded as (AR6: 1.1, 1.2) refers to the Algebraic Reasoning Strand Grade 6, Performance Standards 1.1 and 1.2.

A Benchmark or Required Activity coded as (F1, AR7: 1.2.1, ARCore: 1.2.1) refers to the Unit Focus Question 1, and the Algebra and Reasoning Strand Grade 7 Performance Standard 1.2 Expected Performance1, and Grade 9-12 Core Performance Standard 1.2 Expected Performance 1.

 

Approved by Instructional Council on 12/5/05
BOE 1/18/06