Grades 6-8 Benchmark 1: Uses a variety of strategies in the problem-solving process
Benchmark 3: Understands that there is no one right way to solve mathematical problems but that different methods (for example, working backward from a solution, using a similar problem type, identifying a pattern) have different advantages and disadvantages
Benchmark 5: Represents problem situations in and translates among oral, written, concrete, pictorial, and graphical forms
Benchmark 6: Generalizes from a pattern of observations made in particular cases, makes conjectures, and provides supporting arguments for these conjectures (i.e., uses inductive reasoning)