Math
Overview and Text Books
The intermediate grades continue to provide instruction in number sense for our students, but students will be introduced to higher level concepts. In addition to whole numbers, our students will now work with fractions and decimals. Negative numbers will be introduced to our students, as well as beginning geometry and algebra concepts. Teachers stress conceptual understanding, computational fluency, and problem solving skills for our students. Our teachers use a basic text, along with explicit teaching, manipulatives, computer programs, and math talks.
Textbooks used: Progress in Mathematics
Curriculum and Benchmarks
- Communicate both orally and in written format using the language of mathematics
- Solve problems using multiple strategies
- Demonstrate an understanding of numbers, including whole numbers, decimal numbers, and fractional numbers
- Understand the meaning of negative numbers
- Fluently add, subtract, multiply, and divide numbers
- Apply the associative, commutative, and distributive properties of mathematics
- Understand and solve mathematical problems using multiplication and division, including whole numbers, fractions, and decimals
- Demonstrate an understanding of measurement which includes measuring, estimating, and converting different measurement units
- Recognize and apply the formula of area to two- and three-dimensional shapes
- Understand the concepts of angle and angle measurements
- Analyze the properties of two- and three-dimensional shapes
- Collect, compare, and analyze data
- Apply statistical measurement to data sets
- Understand and apply the concept of probability
- Use algebraic symbols and thinking to represent mathematical ideas
