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Check my work

Mathematically proficient students look over their work to ensure that it is labeled correctly and that their solutions are accurate and make sense. Check My Work is a strategy that helps students recognize if and where they’ve made a mistake in the way they approached the problem or made a calculation error. This strategy helps students learn to pay attention to details.

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Mathematically proficient students look over their work to ensure that it is labeled correctly and that their solutions are accurate and make sense. Check My Work is a strategy that helps students recognize if and where they’ve made a mistake in the way they approached the problem or made a calculation error. This strategy helps students learn to pay attention to details.

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