Standards & Focal Points

Curriculum Focal Points are the most important math topics for lasting learning at each grade level Pre-K-8.

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Focus in High School Mathematics: Reasoning and Sense Making is a conceptual framework to guide the development of the 9–12 mathematics curriculum and instruction.

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The mathematical understanding, knowledge, and skills that students should acquire from Pre-K through grade 12.

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An Agenda for Action
Recommendations for School Mathematics of the 1980s.

The historic document that started the standards movement.

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