Byram Hills Central School District

This information has been taken directly from the Accelerate U - Standards and Resource Guides (with approval) from the K-12 Education, NEW YORK STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT site. No information in this document has been changed.

Learning Standards for Mathematics, Science, and Technology at Three Levels

Standard 3: Elementary

Students will understand mathematics and become mathematically confident by communicating and reasoning mathematically, by applying mathematics in real-world settings, and by solving problems through the integrated study of number systems, geometry, algebra, data analysis, probability, and trigonometry.

Measurement

5. Students use measurement in both metric and English measure to provide a major link between
the abstractions of mathematics and the real world in order to describe and compare objects and
data.

Students:

     understand that measurement is approximate, never exact.
     select appropriate standard and nonstandard measurement tools in measurement activities.
     understand the attributes of area, length, capacity, weight, volume, time, temperature, and
     angle.
     estimate and find measures such as length, perimeter, area, and volume using both
     nonstandard and standard units.
     collect and display data.
     use statistical methods such as graphs, tables, and charts to interpret data.

This is evident, for example, when students:

     measure with paper clips or finger width.
     estimate, then calculate, how much paint would be needed to cover one wall.
     create a chart to display the results of a survey conducted among the classes in the school,
     or graph the amounts of survey responses by grade level.