NCTM+Standards+of+Learning

=Overview= The members of the National Council for the Teachers of Mathematics (NCSS) have developed national standards and expectations for mathematics that you can use to design objectives for your students. On this wikipage, I have summarized the standards for you and provided links to the student expectations. When writing learning objectives, please use the student expectations and not the standards.

Standards and Expectations
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 * **Number and Operations Standard** - Students need to:
 * 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** - Students need to:
 * Understand patterns, relations, 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** - Students need 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** - Students need to:
 * Understand measurable attributes of objects and the units, systems, and processes of measurement
 * Apply appropriate techniques, tools, and formulas to determine measurements.


 * **Data Analysis & Probability Standard** - Students need 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


 * **Process Standard** - Students need to:
 * **Problem Solve** - Students need to:
 * Build new mathematical knowledge through problem solving
 * Solve problems that arise in mathematics and in other contexts
 * Apply and adapt a variety of appropriate strategies to solve problems
 * Monitor and reflect on the process of mathematical problem solving
 * **Reason and Prove** - Students need to:
 * Recognize reasoning and proof as fundamental aspects of mathematics
 * Make and investigate mathematical conjectures
 * Develop and evaluate mathematical arguments and proofs
 * Select and use various types of reasoning and methods of proof
 * **Communicate** - Students need to:
 * Organize and consolidate their mathematical thinking through communication
 * Communicate their mathematical thinking coherently and clearly to peers, teachers, and others
 * Analyze and evaluate the mathematical thinking and strategies of others;
 * Use the language of mathematics to express mathematical ideas precisely.
 * **Connect** - Students need to:
 * Recognize and use connections among mathematical ideas
 * Understand how mathematical ideas interconnect and build on one another to produce a coherent whole
 * Recognize and apply mathematics in contexts outside of mathematics
 * **Represent**- Students need to:
 * Create and use representations to organize, record, and communicate mathematical ideas
 * Select, apply, and translate among mathematical representations to solve problems
 * Use representations to model and interpret physical, social, and mathematical phenomena