NCTM Standards

Standard Correlation for Grades 3-5

Number and Operations

  • Understands numbers, ways of representing numbers, relationships among numbers, and number systems

  • Understands meanings of operations and how they relate to one another

  • Computes fluently and makes reasonable estimates

Algebraic Thinking

  • Understands patterns, relations, and functions

  • Represents and analyzes mathematical situations and structures using algebraic symbols

  • Uses mathematical models to represent and understand quantitative relationships

  • Analyzes change in various contexts

Geometry

  • Analyzes characteristics and properties of 2 and 3 dimensional geometric shapes and develops mathematical arguments about geometric relationships

  • Specifies locations and describes spatial relationships using coordinate geometry and other representational systems

  • Applies transformations and uses symmetry to analyze mathematical situations

  • Uses visualization, spatial reasoning, and geometric modeling to solve problems

Measurement

  • Understands measurable attributes of objects and the units, systems, and processes of measurement

  • Applies appropriate techniques, tools, and formulas to determine measurements

Data Analysis and Probability

  • Formulates questions that can be address with data and collect, organize, and display relevant data to answer them

  • Selects and uses appropriate statistical methods to analyze data

  • Develops and evaluates inferences and predictions that are based on data

  • Understands and applies basic concepts of probability

Problem Solving

  • Builds new mathematical knowledge through problem solving

  • Solves problems that arise in mathematics and in other contexts

  • Applies and adapts a variety of appropriate strategies to solve problems

  • Monitors and reflects on the process of mathematical problem solving

Reasoning and Proof

  • Recognizes reasoning and proof as fundamental aspects of mathematics

  • Makes and investigates mathematical conjectures

  • Develops and evaluates  mathematical arguments and proofs

  • Selects and uses various types of reasoning and methods of proof

Communication

  • Organizes and consolidates mathematical thinking through communication

  • Communicates mathematical thinking coherently and clearly to peers, teachers, and others

  • Analyzes and evaluates mathematical thinking and strategies to others

  • Uses the language of mathematics to express mathematical ideas precisely

Connections

  • Recognizes and uses connections among mathematical ideas

  • Understands how mathematical ideas interconnect and build on one another to produce a coherent whole

  • Recognizes and applies mathematics in contexts outside of mathematics

Representation

  • Creates and uses representations to organize, record, and communicate mathematical ideas

  • Selects, applies, and translates among mathematical representations to solve problems

  • Uses representations to model and interpret physical, social, and  mathematical phenomena

Standard Correlation for Grades 6-8

Number and Operations

  • Understands numbers, ways of representing numbers, relationships among numbers, and number systems

  • Understands meanings of operations and how they relate to one another

  • Computes fluently and makes reasonable estimates

Algebraic Thinking

  • Understands patterns, relations, and functions

  • Represents and analyzes mathematical situations and structures using algebraic symbols

  • Uses mathematical models to represent and understand quantitative relationships

  • Analyzes change in various contexts

Geometry

  • Analyzes characteristics and properties of 2 and 3 dimensional geometric shapes and develops mathematical arguments about geometric relationships

  • Specifies locations and describes spatial relationships using coordinate geometry and other representational systems

  • Applies transformations and uses symmetry to analyze mathematical situations

  • Uses visualization, spatial reasoning, and geometric modeling to solve problems

Measurement

  • Understands measurable attributes of objects and the units, systems, and processes of measurement

  • Applies appropriate techniques, tools, and formulas to determine measurements

Data Analysis and Probability

  • Formulates questions that can be address with data and collect, organize, and display relevant data to answer them

  • Selects and uses appropriate statistical methods to analyze data

  • Develops and evaluates inferences and predictions that are based on data

  • Understands and applies basic concepts of probability

Problem Solving

  • Builds new mathematical knowledge through problem solving

  • Solves problems that arise in mathematics and in other contexts

  • Applies and adapts a variety of appropriate strategies to solve problems

  • Monitors and reflects on the process of mathematical problem solving

Reasoning and Proof

  • Recognizes reasoning and proof as fundamental aspects of mathematics

  • Makes and investigates mathematical conjectures

  • Develops and evaluates  mathematical arguments and proofs

  • Selects and uses various types of reasoning and methods of proof

Communication

  • Organizes and consolidates mathematical thinking through communication

  • Communicates mathematical thinking coherently and clearly to peers, teachers, and others

  • Analyzes and evaluates mathematical thinking and strategies to others

  • Uses the language of mathematics to express mathematical ideas precisely

Connections

  • Recognizes and uses connections among mathematical ideas

  • Understands how mathematical ideas interconnect and build on one another to produce a coherent whole

  • Recognizes and applies mathematics in contexts outside of mathematics

Representation

  • Creates and uses representations to organize, record, and communicate mathematical ideas

  • Selects, applies, and translates among mathematical representations to solve problems

  • Uses representations to model and interpret physical, social, and  mathematical phenomena

Standard Correlation for Grades 9-12

Number and Operations

  • Understands numbers, ways of representing numbers, relationships among numbers, and number systems

  • Understands meanings of operations and how they relate to one another

  • Computes fluently and makes reasonable estimates

Algebraic Thinking

  • Understands patterns, relations, and functions

  • Represents and analyzes mathematical situations and structures using algebraic symbols

  • Uses mathematical models to represent and understand quantitative relationships

  • Analyzes change in various contexts

Geometry

  • Analyzes characteristics and properties of 2 and 3 dimensional geometric shapes and develops mathematical arguments about geometric relationships

  • Specifies locations and describes spatial relationships using coordinate geometry and other representational systems

  • Applies transformations and uses symmetry to analyze mathematical situations

  • Uses visualization, spatial reasoning, and geometric modeling to solve problems

Measurement

  • Understands measurable attributes of objects and the units, systems, and processes of measurement

  • Applies appropriate techniques, tools, and formulas to determine measurements

Data Analysis and Probability

  • Formulates questions that can be address with data and collect, organize, and display relevant data to answer them

  • Selects and uses appropriate statistical methods to analyze data

  • Develops and evaluates inferences and predictions that are based on data

  • Understands and applies basic concepts of probability

Problem Solving

  • Builds new mathematical knowledge through problem solving

  • Solves problems that arise in mathematics and in other contexts

  • Applies and adapts a variety of appropriate strategies to solve problems

  • Monitors and reflects on the process of mathematical problem solving

Reasoning and Proof

  • Recognizes reasoning and proof as fundamental aspects of mathematics

  • Makes and investigates mathematical conjectures

  • Develops and evaluates  mathematical arguments and proofs

  • Selects and uses various types of reasoning and methods of proof

Communication

  • Organizes and consolidates mathematical thinking through communication

  • Communicates mathematical thinking coherently and clearly to peers, teachers, and others

  • Analyzes and evaluates mathematical thinking and strategies to others

  • Uses the language of mathematics to express mathematical ideas precisely

Connections

  • Recognizes and uses connections among mathematical ideas

  • Understands how mathematical ideas interconnect and build on one another to produce a coherent whole

  • Recognizes and applies mathematics in contexts outside of mathematics

Representation

  • Creates and uses representations to organize, record, and communicate mathematical ideas

  • Selects, applies, and translates among mathematical representations to solve problems

  • Uses representations to model and interpret physical, social, and  mathematical phenomena

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