Students will:

•understand the concepts of and become proficient with the skills of mathematics;

•communicate and reason mathematically;

•become problem solvers by using appropriate tools and strategies; through the integrated study of number sense and operations, algebra, geometry, measurement, and statistics and probability.

Students will:

•understand numbers, multiple ways of representing numbers, relationships

among numbers, and number systems;

•understand meanings of operations and procedures, and how they relate to one another;

•compute accurately and make reasonable estimates.

Students will:

•represent and analyze algebraically a wide variety of problem solving situations;

•perform algebraic procedures accurately;

•recognize, use, and represent algebraically patterns, relations, and functions.

Students will:

•use visualization and spatial reasoning to analyze characteristics and properties

of geometric shapes;

•identify and justify geometric relationships, formally and informally;

•apply transformations and symmetry to analyze problem solving situations;

•apply coordinate geometry to analyze problem solving situations.

Students will:

•determine what can be measured and how, using appropriate methods and formulas;

•use units to give meaning to measurements;

•understand that all measurement contains error and be able to determine its significance;

•develop strategies for estimating measurements.

Students will:

•collect, organize, display, and analyze data;

•make predictions that are based upon data analysis;

•understand and apply concepts of probability.