The communication process standard refers to a student's ability to read, write, discuss, and represent math concepts. Students must be able to use correct mathematical terminology. Students should relate pictures, manipulatives, symbols, and diagrams to math concepts. The students must clearly express these math concepts to others.
Students must use math to solve problems in other areas of the curriculum and in the real world. Students should identify relationships among various themes within the area of mathematics. Students must relate concrete representations to each other and to the math concepts each represents.
Students will use a variety of problem solving strategies, such as: drawing a pictorial representation, graphs, or acting out the situation. Students must create, apply, and evaluate strategies to problems. Students should formulate to solve mathematical questions. Students must also determine whether information is needed or extraneous for solving a particular problem. Students will explain results generated in relation to a given problem.
Reasoning includes the identification, representation, extensio, and explanation of patterns. Students should show their thinking processes with age appropriate materials. Students must predict or deduce conclusions based on math concepts.
Students should develop and employ various representations for mathematical concepts. Students must use these representations to model mathematical situations.
Students must employ various strategies to represent, explain, and extend patterns. Objectives for this standard include: creating, describing and extending patterns; counting; demonstrating properties of addition and multiplication; and finding unknowns in a problem.
Data analysis refers to demonstrating comprehension of data gathering and presentation. Objectives for data analysis include: creating, interpreting and using graphs to solve problems.
Geometry involves using geometric relationships and properties to identify and define shapes. Younger students should recognize and name two and three dimensional shapes. Older students must use knowledge of geometric concepts to solve problems, including: perimeter, area, and volume.
Students should read, write, and represent numbers. Students must show competency in basic computation. Skills in this area include: skip counting, place value, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, decimals and percents.
Students must use measurement skills in various situations. Measurement includes: telling time, counting money, elapsed time, temperature, linear measurement using various units of length and solving problems involving all the preceding concepts.