Process Standards - Connections

The connections portion of the process standards section of the NCTM website, outlines three major ideas for educators. The first, students should become framiliar with mathematical ideas and use this framiliarity to make connections amongst these ideas. Students should understand the interconnections of varying seperate mathematical ideas, eventually using these connections to combine these ideas into one whole. Finally, students should be able to use these connections to both recognize and apply these mathematical ideas in other subjects and life skills areas outside of a mathematics classroom.