Mathematics MST
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Adult Goal 5: Learners will recognize, understand, and use mathematics to communicate and reason.

OBJECTIVES EXAMPLES
Objective A: Learners will develop common understandings of mathematical ideas.
  • Recognize and use the vocabulary and symbols of mathematics
  • Use the skills of reading (including use of inference and logical transition), listening, and viewing to interpret and evaluate mathematical ideas.
  • Discuss mathematical situations and make conjectures and convincing arguments.
Objective B: Learners will draw logical conclusions about problem situations.
  • Use physical materials, pictures, graphs, budgets, and diagrams to illustrate mathematical ideas.
  • Use models, known facts, and relationships to explain thinking.
  • Explain answers and solution processes.
  • Follow a logical argument and judge its validity.
  • Construct a logical argument and judge its validity.
Objective C: Learners will link conceptual and procedural knowledge.
  • Apply relationships between operations such as addition/subtraction inverse, multiplication/division inverse, multiplication as repeated additions, division as repeated subtractions.
  • Recognize different representations of the same concept as equivalent, e.g., horizontal and vertical addition, 20'/18" = 240"/18" = 20'/1.5'.
Objective D: Learners will recognize relationships among different topics.
  • Whole numbers, decimals, fractions, and percents.
  • Geometry and algebra, particularly in graphing.

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