Prime Time unit goals:

• Understand the relations among factors, multiples, divisors, and products
• Recognize that factors come in pairs
• Link area and dimensions of rectangles with products and factors
• Recognize numbers as prime or composite, and as odd or even based on their factors
• Use factors and multiples to explain some numerical facts of everyday life
• Develop strategies for finding factors and multiples of whole numbers
• Recognize that a number can be written in exactly one way as a product of primes (Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic)
• Recognize situations in which problems can be solved by finding factors and multiples
• Develop a variety of strategies—such as building a physical model, making a table or list, and solving a simpler problem—to solve problems involving factors and multiples

Data About Us unit goals:

• Engage in the process of data investigation: posing questions, collecting data, analyzing data, and making interpretations to answer questions
• Represent data using line plots, bar graphs, stem-and-leaf plots, and coordinate graphs
• Explore concepts that relate to ways of describing data, such as the shape of a distribution, what’s typical in the data, and measures of center (mode, median, mean, range of variability) in the data
• Develop a variety of strategies—such as using comparative representations and concepts related to describing the shape of the data—for comparing data sets

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Shapes and Designs unit goals:

• Acquire knowledge of some important properties of polygons and a general ability to recognize those shapes and properties both in and out of the classroom
• Describe decorative and structural applications in which polygons of various sizes and shapes appear
• Hypothesize about why hexagonal shapes appear on the surface of honeycombs
• Explain the property of the triangle which makes it useful as a stable structure
• Explain the edge and angle relationships that make parallelograms useful for designs and for structures like windows, doors, and tilings
• Estimate the size of any angle using reference to a right angle and other benchmark angles
• Use an angle ruler for making more accurate angle measurements
• Describe practical situations in which angles of various sizes occur
• Develop a variety of strategies—such as testing many different cases and looking for patterns in the results, finding extreme cases, and organizing results in a systematic way (e.g., so patterns are revealed)—for solving problems involving polygons and their properties

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Variables and Patterns unit goals:

• Understand that variables in a situation are those quantities that change, such as time, temperature, feelings, a TV show’s popularity, distance traveled, and speed
• Understand that patterns describe a regular or predictable change in data
• Search for patterns of change that show relationships among the variables
• Select an appropriate range of values for the variables
• Create tables, graphs, and simple symbolic rules that describe the patterns of change
• Understand the relationships among forms of representation--words, tables, graphs, and symbolic rules
• Make decisions using tables, graphs, and rules
• Use a graphing calculator for making tables and graphs to find information about a situation

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What Do You Expect? unit goals:

Data Around Us unit goals:

• Choose sensible units for measuring
• Build a repertoire of benchmarks to relate unfamiliar things to things that are personally meaningful
• Read, write, and interpret the large numbers that occur in real-life measurements using standard, scientific, and calculator notation
• Review the concept of place value as it relates to reading, writing, and using large numbers
• Review and extend the use of exponents
• Use estimates and rounded values for describing and comparing objects and events
• Assess the accuracy and reliability of numbers used to report information
• Choose ways of comparing counts and measurements, including using differences, rates, and ratios
• Understand that a measurement has two components: a count and a unit of measure

Thinking With Mathematical Models unit goals:

Looking For Pythagoras unit goals:

• Make connections among coordinates, slope, distance, and area
• Relate the area of a square to the length of a side
• Develop strategies for finding the distance between two dots on a dot grid or two points on a coordinate grid
• Discover and apply the Pythagorean Theorem
• Extend understanding of number systems to include irrational numbers
• Locate irrational numbers on a number line
• Represent fractions as decimals and decimals as fractions
• Determine whether the decimal representation for a fraction terminates or repeats
• Use slope to solve interesting problems

Growing, Growing, Growing unit goals:

• Recognize and describe situations in which variables grow and decay exponentially
• Represent exponential patterns with tables, graphs, and equations
• Recognize exponential patterns in tables, graphs, and equations
• Compare and contrast exponential relationships with linear relationships
• Determine growth factors and decay factors in exponential situations
• Use tables, graphs, and equations to solve problems involving exponential growth and exponential decay
• Describe the effects of varying the values of a and b in the equation y = a(b^x) on the graph of that equation

Frogs, Fleas, and Painted Cubes unit goals:

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Samples and Populations unit goals:

• Employ the process of statistical investigation to explore problems
• Analyze data using tables, stem-and-leaf plots, histograms, and box-and-whisker plots
• Compare data using measures of center (mean, median), measures of spread (range, percentiles), and data displays (stem-and-leaf plots, histograms, box-and-whisker plots)
• Explore relationships among data using scatter plots
• Distinguish between samples and populations, compare samples, and use information drawn from samples to make conclusions about populations
• Apply selected concepts from probability to understand the concept of randomness and to select random samples
• Explore concepts of representativeness and sample size as they relate to using random and nonramdom samples to draw conclusions about the characteristics of populations
• Design a survey, focusing on how questions are asked

Kaleidoscopes, Hubcaps, and Mirrors unit goals:

Clever Counting unit goals: