Basic Mathematical

Thinking Skills
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
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CRITICAL THINKING AND

PROBLEM-SOLVING Teacher poses a problem and
asks students to solve it or
research for answers.
COMMUNICATION
Teacher raises an issue or
topic and students express
their ideas with varied media.
COLLABORATION Teacher provides a task and
students work in teams.
CREATIVITY
Teacher presents a challenge
and students design a solution
or an innovation.
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 Conceptual Understanding
• The grasping of ideas in a transferable way
and can help the learner take what he/she had
learned in class and apply it across different
domains.
 Conceptual Understanding
• Is knowing more than isolated facts and
methods.
• The successful student understands
mathematical ideas and has the ability to
transfer their knowledge into new situations
and apply it to new contexts.
 Process Skills
• The cognitive operation that the learners
perform on facts and information they
acquired.
• Examples:
• Representing (the ability of the student to
represent real-life situations using a rational
function and table of values with
corresponding explanations or solutions)
 Process Skills
• Examples:
• Connecting – this comprises the ability of the
students to use the given graph to connect the
procedures and concepts of finding the
different properties of rational functions. This
also includes formulating a rational function
given its properties.
 Process Skills
• Examples:
• Reasoning – Involves written explanation or
mathematical solution that will provide support
for the students’ answers on the different
questions about rational functions.
• Precision – this is the ability of the student to
sketch the graph of rational functions precisely
by following the step-by-step procedures and
with accurate scaling of axes
 Problem Solving Skills
• The process of applying previously learned
concepts to new unfamiliar situation. It
requires critical thinking, ability to make right
decisions, and the correct strategy to find the
solution and check the result.
 Problem Solving Skills
• Refers to 2 distinctive mental skills such as
analytical and creative.
• Analytical or logical thinking includes skills like
ordering, comparing, contrasting, evaluating,
and selecting.
• Creative thinking is looking beyond the
obvious of creating ideas in large range and
various ways to solve the problems.