Content Standards for School Mathematics
Number and Operations: Instructional programs from pre-kindergarten through grade 12 should enable all students to Standard
- Understand numbers, ways of representing numbers, relationships among numbers, and number systems;
- Understand meanings of operations and how they relate to one another;
- Compute fluently and make reasonable estimates.
Algebra Standard: Instructional programs from pre-kindergarten through grade 12 should enable all students to
- Understand patterns, relationships, and functions;
- Represent and analyze mathematical situations and structures using algebraic symbols;
- Use mathematical models to represent and understand quantitative relationships;
- Analyze change in various contexts.
Geometry Standard: Instructional programs from pre-kindergarten through grade 12 should enable all students to
- Analyze characteristics and properties of two- and three-dimensional geometric shapes and develop mathematical arguments about geometric relationships;
- Specify locations and describe spatial relationships using coordinate geometry and other representational systems;
- Apply transformations and use symmetry to analyze mathematical situations;
- Use visualization, spatial reasoning, and geometric modeling to solve problems.
Measurement Standard: Instructional programs from pre-kindergarten through grade 12 should enable all students to
- Understand measurable attributes of objects and the units, systems, and processes of measurement;
- Apply appropriate techniques, tools, and formulas to describe measurements.
Data Analysis and Probability Standard: Instructional programs from pre-kindergarten through grade 12 should enable all students to
- Formulate questions that can be addressed with data and collect, organize, and display relevant data to answer them;
- Select and use appropriate statistical methods to analyze data;
- Develop and evaluate inferences and predictions that are based on data;
- Understand and apply basic concepts of probability.
Excerpt from Teaching Secondary Mathematics: Techniques and Enrichment Units, by A.S. Posamentier & B.S.Smith & J.Stepelman, 2006 edition, p. 9.
© 2006, Allyn & Bacon, an imprint of Pearson Education Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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