We were told to reflect on what it means to me to "do math." If you asked me that questions when I was in high school I would have answered with something like "solve equations" or "add things up" or "find the area of a circle" or "solve for x" or something like the meme above.
Now, my answer would be something like "work through a problem that involves patterns or numbers or symbols and do so in a mathematical way, perhaps collaboratively. It could be really messy. You might not get the right answer but you work at it and try different approaches and talk to different people. You show someone your thinking along the way to show what you did and why."
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