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Understanding Mathematics

Understanding, simply put, is seeing how things are related to or connected to other things we know. Mathematical understanding allows students to make use of math principles to understand the world around them. You understand a piece of mathematics if you can explain mathematical concepts and facts in terms of simpler concepts and facts, easily make logical connections between different facts and concepts, recognize the connection when you encounter something new (inside or outside of mathematics) that's close to the mathematics you understand and identify the principles in the given piece of mathematics that make everythi...

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