[heymijo]

You're between a rock and a hard place.

The rock are the incentives, how your performance is measured, and the short duration you will have teaching these students.

The hard place is students who have likely spent 13 years in K-12 learning without understanding and are now being asked to do engage in practices they have little to no experience with.* They also have incentives to get good grades and a good GPA, which can be at odds with actual learning.

*To get more concrete, the practices have a name--Standards for Mathematical Practice (SMPs). The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics developed them and considers them the "heart and soul" of the Common Core Mathematics Standards. Not only are these practices absent from most classrooms, all too many teachers are not even aware of them! (see my Notch Generation reply to Sriram to understand why)

https://www.teacherstep.com/breaking-down-the-common-cores-8...