The Delaware standards for mathematics set clear goals for what students should access and learn in mathematics by the end of each grade year. Mathematical understanding and procedural skill are equally important. Additionally, the standards focus on learning mathematical skills and concepts in the context of solving real-world problems. Students are asked to justify why a particular mathematical statement is true or where a mathematical rule comes from. At each grade, students are expected to develop key behaviors outlined in the Standards for Mathematical Practice.
Through standards, teachers and students know what to focus on throughout the year. Standards ensure everyone is working toward the same expectations. Additionally, they provide consistency across schools, so students can transfer easily between schools and are provided equal opportunities for success in all classrooms.
Student outcomes
Mathematics content standards are cumulative, which means that each year students build off previous learning to become college and career ready by the end of high school. They emphasize required achievements while individual districts and charters determine how these goals are met.
Mathematics content standards should be demonstrated by students through the math practice standards which are:
- Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
- Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
- Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
- Model with mathematics.
- Use appropriate tools strategically.
- Attend to precision.
- Look for and make use of structure.
- Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
Contact
For more information on Delaware mathematic standards, please email Nicole Marshall or Renee Parsley, or call 302-735-4180.
