. "Appendix B: Overview of Content Standards from the National Science Education Standards and the Principles and Standards for School Mathematics." Educating Teachers of Science, Mathematics, and Technology: New Practices for the New Millennium. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2000.
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Educating Teachers of Science, Mathematics, and Technology: New Practices for the New Millenium
Mathematics Content Standards for Grades K-12
(From National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 2000, excerpted from pages 28-71)
Instructional programs from prekindergarten through grade 12 should enable all students 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
Instructional programs from prekindergarten through grade 12 should enable all students 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
Instructional programs from prekindergarten 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 prekindergarten through grade 12 should enable all students to—
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Excerpted from National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (2000) pages 29-71.
