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Students receive instruction in math in a replacement model. This means students are pulled from their math classrooms during math time in their regular classrooms to receive instruction by the Challenge teacher. The text used is Everyday Mathematics published by the  University of Illinois.  Students complete math a year above grade level and within each content area extension lessons are used to enhance and challenge students.

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Place value in whole numbers and decimals

Addition and subtraction of whole numbers and decimals to hundredths

Automaticity with addition and subtraction facts

Multiplication by 2-digit whole numbers and division by 1-digit whole numbers

Measurement using customary and metric units. Strategies for finding perimeter and area of polygons

Description, comparison, and classification of plane and solid figures of geometry

Read, write and model fractions

Probability of events.  Test predictions.

Place value in whole numbers and decimals. Use of expanded notation

Addition and subtraction of whole numbers, decimals and signed numbers

Multiplication and division of whole numbers and fractions

Automaticity with  multiplication and division facts

Measurement strategies for use with regular and irregular shape

Identification of congruent shapes by property and angle. Description of reflections, translations and rotations

Conversion between fractions, decimals and percents

Probability of events based on theoretical and experiemental results

Addition, subtraction, myltiplication and division algorithms and problem solving

Representation of ratios as fractions, percents and decimals

Collection, display, and interpretation of data with use of

variables, formulas, and graphs

Rational number uses and operations

Geometry similarity, congruence and constructions

Algebra concepts using one or two unknowns in linear equations

Evaluation of equalities and inequalities in algebraic thinking

 

Properties of multiplicative and additive inverses

Probability and discrete mathematics