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.

Optimization

6. In order to arrive at the best solution that meets criteria within constraints, it is often necessary to make trade-offs.

Students:

determine the criteria and constraints of a simple decision making problem.
use simple quantitative methods, such as ratios, to compare costs to benefits of a decision problem.

This is evident, for example, when students:

describe the criteria (e.g., size, color, model) and constraints (e.g., budget) used to select the best bicycle to buy.
compare the cost of cereal to number of servings to figure out the best buy.