State Curriculum - Mathematics

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Standard 2.0 Knowledge of Geometry: Students will apply the properties of one-, two-, or three-dimensional geometric figures to describe, reason, or solve problems about shape, size, position, or motion of objects. Standard 2.0 Knowledge of Geometry: Students will apply the properties of one-, two-, or three-dimensional geometric figures to describe, reason, or solve problems about shape, size, position, or motion of objects. Standard 2.0 Knowledge of Geometry: Students will apply the properties of one-, two-, or three-dimensional geometric figures to describe, reason, or solve problems about shape, size, position, or motion of objects.
A. Plane Geometric Figures A. Plane Geometric Figures A. Plane Geometric Figures
1. Recognize and apply the properties/attributes of plane geometric figures
1. Analyze the properties of plane geometric figures
1. Analyze the properties of plane geometric figures
a. Identify and describe sides and corners
a. Identify or describe points, lines, line segments, rays, and angles
a. Identify properties of angles using manipulatives and pictures
b. Identify and describe quadrilaterals such as: squares, rectangles, rhombi
b. Identify or describe polygons
    Assessment limit:
  • Use triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, or octagons and the number of sides or vertices
b. Identify, compare, classify, and describe angles in relationship to another angle
    Assessment limit:
  • Use acute, right, or obtuse angles
c. Identify and describe polygons by the number of sides such as: triangles, squares, rectangles, hexagons, octagons
c. Identify or describe quadrilaterals
    Assessment limit:
  • Use squares, rectangles, rhombi, parallelograms, and trapezoids and the length of sides
c. Identify parallel and intersecting line segments
d. Combine and subdivide squares, triangles, and rectangles to identify a new shape
d. Identify triangles, rectangles, or squares as part of a composite figure
    Assessment limit:
  • Use a combination of 2 of the stated polygons
 
2. Analyze geometric relationships
  a. Identify right angles
 
B. Solid Geometric Figures B. Solid Geometric Figures B. Solid Geometric Figures
1. Analyze the properties of solid geometric figures
1. Analyze the properties of solid geometric figures
1. Analyze the properties of solid geometric figures
a. Compare two- and three-dimensional shapes such as: square to a cube, square and rectangle to a rectangular prism.
a. Identify and describe cubes, rectangular prisms, and triangular prisms
    Assessment limit:
  • Use cubes and the number of edges, faces, vertices, or shape of each face
a. Identify cones, cylinders, prisms, and pyramids
    Assessment limit:
  • Use cones or cylinders
    b. Describe solid geometric figures by the number of edges, faces, or vertices
    Assessment limit:
  • Use triangular pyramids, rectangular pyramids, triangular prisms, or rectangular prisms
2. Analyze the relationship between plane geometric figures and surfaces of solid geometric figures
    a. Compare a plane figure to surfaces of solid geometric figure
    Assessment limit:
  • Analyze or identify the number or arrangement of squares needed to make a cube and triangles/rectangles needed to make a triangular pyramid or rectangular pyramid.
C. Representation of Geometric Figures C. Representation of Geometric Figures C. Representation of Geometric Figures
1. Represent plane geometric figures
1. Represent plane geometric figures
1. Represent plane geometric figures
a. Sketch plane figures
a. Sketch triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, octagons, and circles
a. Sketch acute, right, obtuse angles, and parallel and intersecting line segments
D. Congruence D. Congruence D. Congruence
1. Compare congruent figures
1. Analyze congruent figures
1. Analyze geometric figures
a. Describe congruent figures as having the same size and shape
a. Identify and describe geometric figures as congruent
    Assessment limit:
  • Use the same shape and same size
a. Identify and describe geometric figures as congruent
    Assessment limit:
  • Identify the result in a transformation as being congruent to the original figure
E. Transformations E. Transformations E. Transformations
1. Recognize a transformation
1. Analyze a transformation
1. Analyze a transformation
a. Apply visualization and spatial reasoning in activities such as: tangrams
a. Identify and describe the results of a slide, flip, and turn
    Assessment limit:
  • Use horizontal slide, flip over a vertical line, or turn of 90° clockwise around a given point of a geometric figure or picture
a. Identify and describe the results of translations, reflections, and rotations
    Assessment limit:
  • Use a horizontal line translation, reflection over a vertical line, or rotation of 90° clockwise around a given point of a geometric figure or picture
b. Identify and demonstrate slides, flips, and turns
   
2. Analyze geometric figures and pictures
2. Analyze geometric figures or pictures
a. Recognize that basic shapes have several lines of symmetry
a. Identify and describe symmetry
    Assessment limit:
  • Use no more than 4 lines of symmetry
 
b. Demonstrate symmetry in basic shapes and pictures by drawing 2 lines of symmetry
   
 

Note: Highlighted assessment limits will be tested in the no calculator section of MSA. In the assessment limit, (0-10) or (-10 to 10) means all numbers in the problem or the answer will fall within the range of 0 to 10 (including endpoints) or -10 to 10 (including endpoints), respectively. All content standards are tested in MSA but not all objectives. Objectives that have an assessment limit are tested on MSA. Objectives without an assessment limit are not tested on MSA.

 

MSDE has developed a toolkit for these standards which can be found online at: http://mdk12.org/instruction/curriculum/mathematics/vsc_toolkit.html.

 

June 2004