Alignment with the NCTM standards requires that the mathematics curriculum should make mathematics more accessible and relevant to students. These developed concepts and skills should be integrated throughout all subject areas. The following standards are addressed within this curriculum unit:
· Understand patterns, relations, and functions
· Represent and analyze mathematical situations and structures using algebraic symbols
· Use mathematical models to represent and understand quantitative relationships
· Analyze change in various contexts
· Formulate questions that can be addressed with data and collect, organize, and display relevant data to answer them
· Develop and evaluate inferences and predictions that are based on data
The state of Connecticut is also adopting a new set of standards known as the Common Core Sate Standards for Mathematics. The following standards are addressed within this curriculum unit:
· Create equations that describe numbers or relationships.
o A.CED. 1, 2, 3, 4
· Understand solving equations as a process of reasoning and explain the reasoning.
o A.REI.1
· Solve systems of equations.
o A.REI.6
· Represent and solve equations and inequalities graphically.
o A.REI.11, 12
· Analyze functions using different representations.
o F.IF.9
· Construct and compare linear models and solve problems.
o F.LE.1, 3
· Interpret linear models.
o S.ID.7, 8, 9
· Write expressions in equivalent forms to solve problems.
o A.SSE.3
· Create equations that describe numbers or relationships.
o A.CED.1, 2