District Priority Standards

I said at Curriculum Night last week that I would post the District Priority Standards on the blog.  So here it is already a week later but now they are posted.  The links below are clickable.  Math was not in PDF format so I had to copy and paste the whole document.

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Math Grade Level Priorities K-6

Kindergarten: Numbers

A central theme in Kindergarten is becoming comfortable with numbers.  Students learn about sorting and matching and become familiar with whole numbers: counting, comparing numbers, and discovering relationships among numbers. Students explore patterns and geometric objects and identify examples of both in their world.

K.1 Core Content: Whole Numbers

K.2 Core Content: Patterns and Operations

K.3 Core Content: Objects and their Locations

K.4 Additional Key Content: Measurable Attributes

K.5 Core Processes: Reasoning, Problem Solving, and Communication

Grade 1: Using Numbers

A central theme in Grade 1 is the power of using numbers; this helps students accomplish mathematics tasks meaningfully.  Students develop number knowledge, explore how numbers can be combined to make other numbers, and learn about addition and subtraction.  Concepts of measurement help to reinforce number ideas.

1.1 Core Content: Whole Number Relationships

1.2 Core Content: Addition and Subtraction

1.3 Core Content: Geometric Attributes

1.4 Core Content: Concepts of Measurement

1.5 Additional Key Content: Data Representation and Analysis

1.6 Core Processes: Reasoning, Problem Solving, and Communication

Grade 2: Place Value

A central theme in Grade 2 is understands place value for whole numbers.  Students develop understanding of the number system, including how the position of a digit affects its value, and use this knowledge to develop skill with more complex computation. They begin making measurements with standard measuring tools.

2.1 Core Content: Place Value and the Base Ten System

2.2 Core Content: Addition and Subtraction

2.3 Core Content: Measurement (length and time)

2.4 Additional Key Content: 2-D and 3-D Figures; Data Collection, Representation and Analysis; Equal Grouping as a Foundation for Multiplication, Division and Fractions

2.5 Core processes: Reasoning, Problem Solving and Communication

Grade 3: Multiplication, Division and Fraction Concepts

A central theme in Grade 3 is developing the meaning of multiplication, division, and fractions, although consolidation of addition and subtraction computation is also expected.  Students develop understanding of the relationship between multiplication and division. They begin work with fractions and extend their addition skills to finding perimeters of quadrilaterals and developing pictographs where one symbol stands for multiple objects.

3.1 Core Content: Addition, Subtraction and Place Value

3.2 Core Content: Concepts of Multiplication and Division

3.3 Core Content: Fraction Concepts

3.4 Core Content: Geometry (lines, right angles, quadrilaterals, & perimeter)

3.5 Additional Key Content: Metric & Customary Measurement; Equality; Data Representation & Analysis

3.6 Core Processes: Reasoning, Problem Solving, and Communication

Math Grade Level Priorities K-6

Grade 4: Using Multiplication

A central theme in Grade 4 is using multiplication.  Students learn multiplication procedures, including algorithms, and apply those procedures in different contexts. Area is a direct use of multiplication, and procedures for finding equivalent fractions (including translating between fractions and mixed numbers) can also be an application of multiplication. Decimal notation extends place value knowledge.

4.1 Core Content: Multi-digit Multiplication

4.2 Core Content: Fractions, Decimals and Mixed Numbers

4.3 Core Content: Concept of Area

4.4 Additional Key Content: Expressions and Equations; Measurement and Time; Coordinate Grids; Median, Mode and Range; Probability

4.5 Core Processes: Reasoning, Problem Solving and Communication

Grade 5: Relationships and Procedures for Division  

A central theme in Grade 5 is relating division and fractions.  Students consolidate their computation skills by learning procedures for division of multi-digit numbers and for adding and subtracting fractions and decimals. Working with algebraic relationships helps extend understanding of the properties of numbers and operations.

5.1 Core Content: Multi-digit Division

5.2 Core Content: Addition and Subtraction of Fractions and Decimals

5.3 Core Content: Triangles and Quadrilaterals

5.4 Core Content: Representations of Algebraic Relationships

5.5 Additional Key Content: Prime and Composite Numbers; Mean; Line Graphs; Algebraic Expressions

5.6 Core Processes: Reasoning, Problem Solving and Communication