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: Intermediate

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:

     use estimation to check the reasonableness of results obtained by computation, algorithms,
     or the use of technology.
     use estimation to solve problems for which exact answers are inappropriate.
     estimate the probability of events.
     use simulation techniques to estimate probabilities.
     determine probabilities of independent and mutually exclusive events.

This is evident, for example, when students:

     construct spinners to represent random choice of four possible selections.
     perform probability experiments with independent events (e.g., the probability that the
     head of a coin will turn up, or that a 6 will appear on a die toss).
     estimate the number of students who might chose to eat hot dogs at a picnic.