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 6 - Interconnectedness: Common Themes - Elementary

Students will understand the relationships and common themes that connect mathematics, science, and technology and apply the themes to these and other areas of learning.

Magnitude and Scale

3. The grouping of magnitudes of size, time, frequency, and pressures or other units of measurement into a series of relative order provides a useful way to deal with the immense range and the changes in scale that affect the behavior and design of systems.

Students:

provide examples of natural and manufactured things that belong to the same category yet have very different sizes, weights, ages, speeds, and other measurements.
identify the biggest and the smallest values as well as the average value of a system when given information about its characteristics and behavior.

This is evident, for example, when students:

     compare the weight of small and large animals.
     compare the speed of bicycles, cars, and planes.
     compare the life spans of insects and trees.
     collect and analyze data related to the height of the students in their class, identifying the tallest, the shortest, and the average height.
     compare the annual temperature range of their locality.