Mathematic Essential Academic Learning
Requirements for |
EALR: 1. The student understands and applies the concepts and procedures of mathematics.
Component 1:1
Understands and applies concepts and procedures from number sense (number and
numeration, computation, and estimation).
- Reads, writes, orders, and compares whole numbers through 999.
- Identifies place value to ten thousands.
- Reads and writes common fractions to represent models, real-life objects, and diagrams.
- Orders fractions with like denominators using physical models, pictures, and symbols.
- Reads and writes decimals to the tenths place to represent models, real-life objects, and diagrams.
- Renames fractions with denominator 10 as decimal.
- Recognizes money as a decimal notation.
- Adds and subtracts multi-digit numbers with and without regrouping.
- Increases and decreases numbers by multiples of 10, 100, and 1,000.
- Demonstrates a conceptual understanding of multiplication and division.
- Develops proficiency with multiplication and division facts through 10x10.
- Multiplies three-digit whole number by one digit, including regrouping.
- Uses inverse relationship of addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, to build fact families.
- Demonstrates commutative property in addition and multiplication using physical models and equations.
- Uses mental arithmetic, pencil and paper, or calculator as appropriate to computing task.
- Understands there are situations where estimation is sufficient and computation is not necessary.
- Uses a variety of strategies to estimate.
- Develops skills in rounding to estimate.
- Uses estimation to predict computation and determine reasonableness of answers.
Component 1:2
Understands and applies concepts and procedures from measurement (attributes and
dimensions, approximation and precision, and systems and tools).
- Uses directly measurable attributes such as length, perimeter, area, volume/capacity, weight/mass, money, temperature, and time to describe and compare objects.
- Estimates,, measures, and records length, capacity, and weight in US and metric units.
- Reads and records time to the nearest minute.
- Understands measurement is approximate.
- Estimates to predict and determine reasonableness of measurements.
- Explores and describes area and perimeter of irregular two dimensional figures.
- Explores volume of rectangular solids.
- Understands the benefits of standard and non-standard units of measurement.
- Uses appropriate tools for measuring length, perimeter, area, volume/capacity, weight/mass, money, temperature, and time.
Component 1:3
Understands and applies concepts and procedures from geometric sense (shape and
dimension, and relationships and transformations).
- Identifies plane and solid figures that are similar, congruent, or symmetrical and constructs examples of each.
- Comprehends lines and line relationships, including parallel, perpendicular, diagonal, and angles.
- Finds area of simple closed figures by counting grid squares.
- Calculates perimeters of closed figures.
- Identifies and constructs models of solid shapes.
- Uses ordered pairs to locate points on a grid.
- Predicts and verifies geometric transformations of a figure: slides, flips, turns.
- Understands how geometric shapes and objects in the environment are related.
Component 1:4
Understands and applies concepts and procedures from probability and statistics
(probability, statistics, and prediction and inference).
- Understands difference between certain and uncertain events.
- Lists all possible outcomes of simple experiments.
- Understands and uses experiments to determine the probability of uncertain events.
- Reads, discusses, and interprets pictographs, bar graphs, and tables.
- Systematically collects data.
- Organizes and displays data in numerical and graphic form: tallying, rank ordering, pictorgraphs, bar graphs, tables.
- Predicts outcomes of simple activities and compares the prediction to experimental results.
- Understands and makes inferences based on experimental results.
Component 1:5
Understands and applies concepts and procedures from algebraic sense (relations
and representations, and operations).
- Recognizes, describes, extends, and creates a wide variety of patterns.
- Uses standard notation to symbolically represent number patterns in open sentences.
- Shows how one quantity determines another quantity in a functional relationship.
- Solves simple open sentences at the symbolic level.
EALR: 2. The student uses mathematics to define and solve problems.
Component 2:1
Investigates situations (by searching for patterns and exploring a variety of
approaches).
- Conducts explorations.
- Searches for patterns.
- Recognizes when information is missing or extraneous.
- Suggests a variety of strategies and approaches and chooses one.
- Recognizes when an attempted approach is unproductive.
- Tries another approach.
Component 2:2
Formulates questions and defines the problem.
- Identifies questions to be answered in familiar situations.
- Defines problems in familiar situations.
- Identifies the unknowns in familiar situations.
Component 2:3
Constructs solutions (by choosing the necessary information and using the
appropriate mathematical tools).
- Organizes relevant information.
- Selects and uses appropriate tools.
- Uses a variety of strategies.
EALR: 3. The student uses mathematical reasoning.
Component 3:1
Analyzes information (from a variety of sources; uses models, known facts,
patterns and relationships to validate thinking).
- Interprets information in relatively familiar situations.
- Compares and contrasts information.
- Validates thinking using models, known facts, patterns, and relationships.
Component 3:2
Predicts results and makes inferences (and makes conjectures based on analysis of
problem situations).
- Makes conjectures and inferences based on analysis of relatively familiar problem situations and justifies results.
Component 3:3
Draws conclusions and verifies results (supports mathematical arguments,
justifies results, and checks for reasonableness of solutions).
- Tests conjectures by finding examples to support or contradict them.
- Supports arguments and justifies results based on own experiences.
- Reflects on and evaluates procedures and reasonableness of results.
- Checks for reasonableness of results.
EALR: 4. The student communicates knowledge and understanding in both everyday and mathematical language.
Component 4:1
Gathers information (reads, listens, and observes to access and extract
mathematical information).
- Creates a plan for collecting information.
- Uses appropriate mathematical vocabulary for concepts in content strands.
- Uses reading, listening, and observation skills to access and extract mathematical information from a variety of sources such as, pictures, diagrams, physical models, classmates, oral narratives, and symbolic representation.
- Uses technology to browse, select, and retrieve mathematical information from a variety of sources.
Component 4:2
Organizes and interprets information.
- Organizes mathematical information.
- Clarifies mathematical understandings by reflecting, discussing, and writing.
Component 4:3
Represents and shares information (shares, explains, and defends mathematical ideas using
terms, language, charts, and graphs that can be clearly understood by a variety of
audiences).
- Expresses ideas using mathematical language and notation such as physical or pictorial models, tables, charts, graphs, or open sentences.
- Expresses mathematical ideas using everyday language.
- Justifies the use of one type of data collection and display over another.
EALR: 5. The student understands how mathematical ideas connect within mathematics, to other subject areas, and to real-life situations.
Component 5:1
Relates concepts and procedures within mathematics (recognizes relationships
among mathematical ideas and topics).
- Links conceptual and procedural understandings between selected mathematical content areas in familiar situations.
- Recognizes equivalent mathematical models and representations in familiar situations.
- Sees relationships between selected parts of mathematics.
Component 5:2
Relates mathematical concepts and procedures to other disciplines (identifies and
applies mathematical thinking and notation in other subject areas).
- Recognizes mathematical patterns and ideas in familiar situations in other disciplines.
- Uses mathematical thinking and modeling in familiar situations in other disciplines.
- Describes examples of the contributions of different cultures to the historical development of number systems and patterns.
- Describes examples of the contributions of both women and men to the development of mathematics.
Component 5:3
Relates mathematical concepts and procedures to real-life situations (understands
the connections between mathematics and problem-solving skills used every day at work and
at home).
- Identifies examples of uses of mathematics in own daily life.
- Identifies examples of uses of mathematics in situations that relate to society.