Math Standards

Overview

National Council of Teachers of mathematics released its updated Principles and Standards for School Mathematics to offer vision and guidance for positive change in mathematics education.

Standards 2000 describe a connected body of mathematical understandings and competencies that can enable students to meet mathematical challenges they are likely to encounter in future schooling, work, and personal lives. The new standards stress problem solving, reasoning and proof, communications, connections and representations throughout five major content areas, including number & operations, algebra, geometry, measurement adn data analysis and probability. Technology is stressed throughout the middle school grades, as students struggle with "their emerging capabilities of finding and imposing structure, conjecturing and verifying, thinking hypothetically, comprehending cause and effect, and abstracting and generalizing."

ESCOT interactive problems harness technology to provide students dynamic environments in which to explore these concepts and competencies.

Click on the content standard areas to the left to view NCTM Standards 2000 for grades 6-8 and related ESCOT interactive problems.