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Students learn concepts and skills through visual lessons and teacher instruction. Concepts and skills are consolidated with practice, activities, and math journal reflections for mastery and applied by extensive practice through real-life problem solving and challenges. Math in Focus enables students to become strategic problem solvers by following the Singapore Mathematics Framework listed below: Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them Reason abstractly and quantitatively Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others Model with mathematics Use appropriate tools strategically Attend to precision Look for and make use of structure Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning Students learn skills by visually understanding the “why” and “how”. 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