Mathematics Curriculum Standards and Essential Questions

Kindergarten – Third Grade

Standards	Essential Questions
Number and Operations Content Standard 1.0 The student will develop number and operation sense needed to represent numbers and number relationships verbally, symbolically, and graphically and to compute fluently and make reasonable estimates in problem solving.	1.1 How will understanding numbers, ways of representing numbers, relationships among numbers, and number systems help to develop number and operation sense? 1.2 Why is it important to understand meanings of operations and how they relate to one another? 1.3 How does being able to solve problems, compute fluently, and make reasonable estimates promote number sense?
Algebra Content Standard 2.0 The student will understand and generalize patterns as they represent and analyze quantitative relationships and change in a variety of contexts and problems using graphs, tables, and equations.	2.1 Why is it important to be able to sort and classify objects by size, number, and other properties?  How are objects sorted and classified by size, number, and other properties? 2.2 How can patterns and functions be represented and analyzed? 2.3 How are concrete, pictorial, and verbal representations used to develop an understanding of the language and symbols of mathematics? 2.4 How can general properties of operations be illustrated? 2.5 How and why should changes in various contexts be analyzed?
Geometry Content Standard 3.0 The student will develop an understanding of geometric concepts and relationships as the basis for geometric modeling and reasoning to solve problems involving one-, two-, and three- dimensional figures.	3.1 How are characteristics and properties of geometric shapes analyzed? 3.2 How are locations specified and spatial relationships described? 3.3 How are slides, flips, and turns recognized and applied?
Measurement Content Standard 4.0 The student will become familiar with the units and processes of measurement in order to use a variety of tools, techniques, and formulas to determine and to estimate measurements in mathematical and real-world problems.	4.1 How and why should an understanding of units of measure and measurable attributes of objects be demonstrated? 4.2 How are measurements determined by applying appropriate techniques and tools?
Data, Analysis, and Probability Content Standard 5.0 The student will understand and apply basic statistical and probability concepts in order to organize and analyze data and to make predictions and conjectures	5.1 Why is developing, selecting, and using appropriate methods involving data important? How can data be collected, organized, displayed, and analyzed? 5.2 How are basic concepts of probability applied?