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CCSS Toolkit: Mathematics - Shift 5

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Shift 1: Focus
Shift 2: Coherence
Shift 3: Procedural Fluency
Shift 4: Deep Conceptual Understanding
Shift 5: Applications/Modeling
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Shift 5: Applications (Modeling)

Teachers at all grade levels identify opportunities for students to apply math concepts in “real world” situations. The process of modeling, that includes choosing and using appropriate mathematics and statistics to analyze and understand situations, is key in improving decisions as well as linking classroom mathematics and statistics to everyday life, work, and decision-making. Students are expected to use math and choose the appropriate mathematical models even when they are not prompted to do so. (NRC, 2001, p. 124; CCSSM, 2010, p. 72-73; NMAP, 2008, p.49-50)