Instructional programs from prekindergarten through grade 12 should enable all students 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.

Instructional programs from prekindergarten through grade 12 should enable all students 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.