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.

Uncertainty

6. Students use ideas of uncertainty to illustrate that mathematics involves more than exactness
when dealing with everyday situations.

Students:

     make estimates to compare to actual results of both formal and informal measurement.
     make estimates to compare to actual results of computations.
     recognize situations where only an estimate is required.
     develop a wide variety of estimation skills and strategies.
     determine the reasonableness of results.
     predict experimental probabilities. make predictions using unbiased random samples.
     determine probabilities of simple events.

This is evident, for example, when students:

     estimate the length of the room before measuring.
     predict the average number of red candies in a bag before opening a group of bags,
     counting the candies, and then averaging the number that were red.
     determine the probability of picking an even numbered slip from a hat containing slips of
     paper numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6.