A pivotal step toward success in school (or really anything)
is a firm grasp on the expectations of what is to be learned. Thanks to the nearly universal adoption of
the Common Core State Standards (Forty-Five states so far), there is a unified
set of expectations that were designed to build upon each other all throughout
one's educational career.
Below are the standards that guide instruction, assessment,
and the progression of math all the way through high school.
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
- Add and subtract within 20.
- Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction.
- Work with equal groups of objects to gain foundations for multiplication.
Number and
Operations in Base Ten
- Understand place value.
- Use place value understanding and properties of operations to add and subtract.
Measurement and
Data
- Measure and estimate lengths in standard units.
- Relate addition and subtraction to length.
- Work with time and money.
- Represent and interpret data.
Geometry
- Reason with shapes and their attributes.
Mathematical
Practices
- Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
- Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
- Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
- Model with mathematics.
- Use appropriate tools strategically.
- Attend to precision.
- Look for and make use of structure.
- Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
