EL Mathematics Benchmarks

1

Recognize, describe and extend numerical and geometric patterns.

2

Represent and record patterns and relationships in a variety of ways including tables, charts and pictures.

3

Use patterns to describe real-world phenomena.

4

Explore various types of numeric and geometric patterns (repeating, growing, shrinking).

5

Apply their experiences with patterns to help solve problems and explore new content.

6

Recognize change and variability when it occurs in a variety of settings.

7

Recognize that change is often predictable, but variable, and that patterns emerge that help to describe the change.

8

Explore change, and realize that changes are frequently interdependent.    

9

Use tables, charts, open sentences and hands-on models to represent change and variability.

10

Begin to describe and differentiate between types of relationships, especially repeating, growing and shrinking patterns.

11

Explore variability and change in a variety of contexts, investigations and problems.

12

Compare attributes of objects; develop standard units of measurement; and select and use standard tools for measurement.

13

Identify the attribute to be measured and select the appropriate unit of measurement for length, mass, weight, area, perimeter, capacity, time, temperature and money.

14

Develop strategies for estimating measures and compare the estimates to the results of the measurement; decide if an estimate is "a good estimate."

15

Explain the meaning of measurements and recognize that the number of units it takes to measure an object is related to the size of the unit.

16

Explore scale drawings, models and maps and relate them to measurements of real objects.

17

Apply measurement to describe the real world and to solve problems.

18

Locate and describe objects in terms of their position, including front, back, inside, outside, right, left, over, under, next to, between and locations on the number line on a coordinate graph and on a map.

19

Locate and describe objects in terms of their orientation, direction and relative position, including up, down, back, N-S-E-W, flipped, turned, translated; recognize symmetrical objects and identify their lines of symmetry.

20

Explore what happens to the size, shape and position of an object after sliding, flipping, turning, enlarging or reducing it.

21

Use concepts of position, direction and orientation to describe the physical; world and to solve problems.

22

Recognize and name familiar shapes in one, two and three dimensions such as lines, rectangles and spheres and informally discuss the shape of a graph.

23

Describe the attributes of familiar shapes.

24

Compare, sort and classify familiar shapes.

25

Draw and build familiar shapes.

26

Explore ways to combine, dissect and transform shapes.

27

Recognize parallel and perpendicular line segments and figures that have similarity and/or congruence.

28

Use shape, shape properties and shape relationships to describe the physical world and to solve problems

29

Collect and explore data through counting, measuring and conducting surveys and experiments

30

Organize data using concrete objects, pictures, tallies, tables, charts, diagrams and graphs.

31

Present data using a variety of appropriate representations and explain the meaning of the data.

32

Identify what data are needed to answer a particular question or solve a given problem, and design and implement strategies to obtain, organize and present those data.

33

Read and explain data they have collected and organized themselves and progress to reading data from other sources.

34

Describe the shape of the data using informal language.

35

Draw, explain and justify conclusions, such as trends based on data.

36

Raise and answer questions about the source, collection, organization and presentation of data, as well as the conclusions drawn from the data; explore biases in data.

37

Formulate questions and problems and gather and interpret data to answer those questions.

38

Make and test hypotheses

39

Conduct surveys, samplings and experiments to solve problems and answer questions of interest to them.

40

Formulate and communicate arguments and conclusions based on data and evaluate their arguments and those of others.

41

Make and explain predictions based on data.

42

Make predictions to answer questions and solve problems.

43

Develop an understanding of whole numbers; and read, write and count using whole numbers; investigate basic concepts of fractions and decimals

44

Investigate and develop an understanding of the base 10, place-value system.

45

Develop an understanding of the properties of numbers (e.g., order) and of the properties of the special numbers 0 and 1.

46

Apply their understanding of number systems to model and solve problems.

47

 

48

Use part-whole relationships to explore numbers, develop number concepts and understand computation.

49

Compare and order numbers using "equal," "less than" or "greater than."

50

Apply their understanding of number relationships in solving problems.

51

Represent whole numbers, fractions and decimals using concrete, pictorial and symbolic representations.

52

Explore and recognize different representations for the same number and explain why they are the same.

53

Investigate ways numbers are used (e.g., counting, ordering, naming, locating, measuring).

54

Develop strategies for estimating quantity and evaluate the reasonableness of their estimates

55

Select appropriate numbers and representations in order to solve problems

56

 Explain the difference between chance and certainty and give Examples to illustrate their understanding.

57

Compare events and describe them as "more likely" or "less likely" and use the language of fractions to describe simple probabilities.

58

Conduct experiments with concrete objects to explore concepts and develop an intuitive understanding of how the conditions of the experiment can affect the outcome.

59

Conduct experiments, record the outcomes, and examine those outcomes to determine if they make sense and search for explanations of the outcomes.

60

Conduct probability experiments and simulations to model and solve problems.

61

 Use manipulatives and diagrams to explore problems involving counting and arranging objects.        

62

Explore sets and set relationships by sorting and classifying objects.

63

Explore situations in which they model and trace paths using figures consisting of vertices connected by edges.

64

Explore now-next patterns.

65

Explore, develop and invent their own algorithms to accomplish a task or to solve numerical problems.

 

Compiled By Imad Fadlallah, Stout Middle School. 2002