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At every grade level, math teachers in the in New York City ask students to spend the lion鈥檚 share of their time during math lessons deeply examining the question they are being asked to solve. Students start by asking themselves questions like, 鈥淲hat are the mathematical relationships in the problem?鈥� 鈥淲hat is this problem asking me to do?鈥� and 鈥淗ow can I model my thinking?鈥� Every classroom even has a formula鈥攁 problem-solving plan for math, printed out and displayed on the wall鈥攃alled the 鈥淧lan of Attack,鈥� which includes three parts: using 80 percent of the allotted time to conceptualize the question by reading the problem multiple times, then modeling the relationships and actions in the problems; 10 percent to answer the question by determining a strategy they will use to solve it and then computing; and finally double-checking in the last 10 percent of their time鈥攂y rereading the problem, evaluating their own reasoning, and checking computations for accuracy.

First-grade teacher Evelyn Gonzales and eighth-grade teacher Fei Liu both reinforce this strategy during precious class time by working through the problem as a whole with their students first, emphasizing the importance of this step before rushing in to solve. As a result, their students develop a much stronger understanding of the mathematical concepts at hand. 鈥淚n my classroom, I don鈥檛 really care for the answer,鈥� says Liu. 鈥淭hey can double-check once they have the answer. What we really need to focus on is why we set the things up, so that when they see a problem, they have an idea of where to start to think.鈥�

The network led the state for math test scores in the 2023鈥�2024 school year, with with 49 percent of Black and 55 percent of Hispanic students earning fours, the highest possible mark.

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