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National Mathematics Standards (6-8)

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Source: Principles and Standards for School Mathematics. National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), 2000; cf, http://www.nctm.org


National Math Standards (6-8) The Science of Speed
Algebra
Understand patterns, relations, and functions
  • Represent, analyze, and generalize a variety of patterns with tables, graphs, words, and, when possible, symbolic rules.

  • Relate and compare different forms of representation for a relationship.

  • Identify functions as linear or nonlinear and contrast their properties from tables, graphs, or equations.
Phase 8. Collect Data
Phase 9. Analyze Data
Phase 10. Propose Technical Changes
Use mathematical models to represent and understand quantitative relationships
  • Model and solve contextualized problems using various representations, such as graphs, tables, and equations.
Phase 8. Collect Data
Phase 9. Analyze Data
Phase 10. Propose Technical Changes
Analyze change in various contexts
  • Use graphs to analyze the nature of changes in quantities in linear relationships.
Phase 8. Collect Data
Phase 9. Analyze Data
Phase 10. Propose Technical Changes
Measurement
Understand measurable attributes of objects and the units, systems, and processes of measurement
  • Understand both metric and customary systems of measurement.

  • Understand relationships among units and convert from one unit to another within the same system.
Phase 1. Preliminary Activities
Phase 2. Design (graphics/layout)
Phase 3. Design Phase: Go/No Go
Phase 4. Car Construction
Phase 5. Collect Data
Phase 6. Trial Phase: Go/No Go
Phase 7. Trial Races
Phase 8. Collect Data
Phase 9. Analyze Data
Phase 10. Propose Technical Changes
Phase 11. Design Modifications and Detail
Phase 12. Race-Ready Phase: Go/No Go
Phase 13. Design and Aesthetic Judging
Phase 14. A Day at the Races
Phase 15. Collect Data – complete database
Apply appropriate techniques, tools, and formulas to determine measurements
  • Solve simple problems involving rates and derived measurements for such attributes as velocity and density.
Phase 1. Preliminary Activities
Phase 2. Design (graphics/layout)
Phase 3. Design Phase: Go/No Go
Phase 4. Car Construction
Phase 5. Collect Data
Phase 6. Trial Phase: Go/No Go
Phase 7. Trial Races
Phase 8. Collect Data
Phase 9. Analyze Data
Phase 10. Propose Technical Changes
Phase 11. Design Modifications and Detail
Phase 12. Race-Ready Phase: Go/No Go
Phase 13. Design and Aesthetic Judging
Phase 14. A Day at the Races
Phase 15. Collect Data – complete database
Data Analysis & Probability
Formulate questions that can be addressed with data and collect, organize, and display relevant data to answer them
  • Formulate questions, design studies, and collect data about a characteristic shared by two populations or different characteristics within one population.

  • Select, create, and use appropriate graphical representations of data.
Phase 1. Preliminary Activities
Phase 8. Collect Data
Phase 9. Analyze Data
Phase 10. Propose Technical Changes
Phase 11. Design Modifications and Detail
Select and use appropriate statistical methods to analyze data
  • Discuss and understand the correspondence between data sets and their graphical representations.
Phase 1. Preliminary Activities
Phase 8. Collect Data
Phase 9. Analyze Data
Phase 10. Propose Technical Changes
Phase 11. Design Modifications and Detail
Develop and evaluate inferences and predictions that are based on data
  • Use observations about differences between two or more samples to make conjectures about the populations from which the samples were taken.

  • Make conjectures about possible relationships between two characteristics of a sample on the basis of scatter plots of the data and approximate lines of fit.

  • Use conjectures to formulate new questions and plan new studies to answer them.
Phase 1. Preliminary Activities
Phase 8. Collect Data
Phase 9. Analyze Data
Phase 10. Propose Technical Changes
Phase 11. Design Modifications and Detail
Problem Solving
  • Build new mathematical knowledge through problem solving

  • Solve problems that arise in mathematics and in other contexts

  • Apply and adapt a variety of appropriate strategies to solve problems

  • Monitor and reflect on the process of mathematical problem solving
Phase 1. Preliminary Activities
Phase 8. Collect Data
Phase 9. Analyze Data
Phase 10. Propose Technical Changes
Phase 11. Design Modifications and Detail
Reasoning & Proof
  • Recognize reasoning and proof as fundamental aspects of mathematics

  • Make and investigate mathematical conjectures

  • Develop and evaluate mathematical arguments and proofs

  • Select and use various types of reasoning and methods of proof
Phase 1. Preliminary Activities
Phase 8. Collect Data
Phase 9. Analyze Data
Phase 10. Propose Technical Changes
Phase 11. Design Modifications and Detail
Communication
  • Organize and consolidate mathematical thinking through communication

  • Communicate mathematical thinking coherently and clearly to peers, teachers, and others

  • Analyze and evaluate the mathematical thinking and strategies of others

  • Use the language of mathematics to express mathematical ideas precisely
Phase 1. Preliminary Activities
Phase 8. Collect Data
Phase 9. Analyze Data
Phase 10. Propose Technical Changes
Phase 11. Design Modifications and Detail
Connections
  • 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
Phase 1. Preliminary Activities
Phase 8. Collect Data
Phase 9. Analyze Data
Phase 10. Propose Technical Changes
Phase 11. Design Modifications and Detail
Representation
  • 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
Phase 1. Preliminary Activities
Phase 8. Collect Data
Phase 9. Analyze Data
Phase 10. Propose Technical Changes
Phase 11. Design Modifications and Detail

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