Process Standards
Content Domains
Guiding Principles
Influences & Pressures
MA Framework Doc
100
This process involves engaging in a task for which the solution method is not known in advance.
What is problem solving?
100
The domain that focuses on counting, place value, and arithmetic
What is number and operations?
100
Math should be explored in ways that stimulate curiosity, enjoyment, and depth of understanding.
What is the learning principle?
100
The test that gathers data about how students in the United States are doing in mathematics.
What is the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP?
100
New national standards added to the MA Framework in 2011
What is the Common Core?
200
The process by which students make and investigate mathematical conjectures.
What is reasoning and proof?
200
The domain that focuses on patterns, relationships, and functions
What is algebra?
200
An effective math program is based on carefully designed standards that are clear, focused, and articulated over time in a coherent sequence.
What is the teaching principle?
200
An international study reporting math and science achievement among students in 41 countries.
What is Trends in International Math and Science Study, or TMSS?
200
What students should understand and be able to do
What are the standards?
300
The process by which students express their mathematical thinking coherently and clearly, using the language of mathematics precisely.
What is communication?
300
The domain that focuses on two- and three-dimensional shapes and relationships
What is geometry?
300
This is an essential tool that should be used strategically in math education.
What is technology?
300
"A mile wide and an inch deep"
What is a TMSS statement about math curriculum in the U.S.?
300
Groups of related standards organized together in each grade level
What are clusters?
400
The process by which students recognize and apply mathematics in contexts outside of mathematics?
What is connections?
400
The domain that focuses on using techniques, tools, and formulas to describe objects
What is measurement?
400
ALL students should have a high quality math program that prepares them for college and career.
What is the equity principle?
400
The people who will always have career opportunities in a changing world economy, according to Thomas Friedman.
Who are "math lovers?"
400
Larger groups of related standards organized my content category
What are domains?
500
The process by which students model and interpret physical, social, and mathematical phenomena
What is representation?
500
The domain that focuses on inferences and predictions based on data
What is statistics?
500
Reading, writing, and communication skills are necessary elements of learning and engaging in math.
What is the literacy across the content areas principle?
500
The selection of these often influences what and how mathematics is taught
What are textbooks?
500
How the MA Frameworks are organized
What is by grade level?
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