A Guide for Planning a Mathematics Curriculum Outline

Overview
(Includes Philosophy Statements, which might include the following)

Year Goals, Landmarks, or Big Ideas categories
(Based on information in the overview)

Attitude/Disposition/Habits of Mind - source list

  1. Reflective - Curious and willingly open-minded to consider explaining ideas based on evidence and reasoning against previous ideas based on evidence reasoning in mathematical ways.
  2. Respect for evidence and objectivity. Insistent on evidence. Requires evidence to formulate explanations, make decisions, and will seek proof to verify ideas and make decisions.
  3. Persistent, grit - Continues despite obstacles, warnings or setbacks.
  4. Responsible - take actions for personal understanding and learning.
  5. Values communication - Seeks ways to communicate that effectively enable others to accurately conceptualize the ideas wanting to be communicated.

CCSSM Practices - source outline

  1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
  2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
  3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
  4. Model with mathematics.
  5. Use appropriate tools strategically.
  6. Attend to precision.
  7. Look for and make use of structure.
  8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

NCTM Processes - source outline

  1. Problem Solving
  2. Reasoning and Proof
  3. Communication
  4. Connections
  5. Representation

NCTM Content - source outline

  1. Number sense
  2. Algebra
  3. Geometry
  4. Measurement
  5. Data Analysis, Probability, and Statistics

CCSSM Content -source outline

  1. Counting and Cardinality (K)
  2. Operations and Algebraic Thinking (K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
  3. Number and Operations in Base Ten (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
  4. Number and Operations—Fractions (3, 4, 5)
  5. The Number System (7, 8)
  6. Measurement and Data (K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
  7. Geometry (K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
  8. Ratios and Proportional Relationships (6, 7)
  9. Expressions and Equations (6, 7, 8)
  10. Statistics and Probability (6, 7, 8)
  11. Functions (8)

Dr. Robert Sweetland's notes