A Lively, Opinionated Guide Advertisement Mathematics is a language we use every day, often without knowing it. It builds and draws on conceptual understanding and skills, and helps us make decisions and solve problems. In this draft document we have tried to connect the notion of problem solving to conceptual understanding and skill development by embedding it within the content strands at every grade. Given here are only some of the ways you will see this exemplified.
Students understand and relate a sense of numbers and quantity in useful ways.
Students understand and describe simple addition and subtraction situations. Explain how you know. Use oral language and physical materials to show how to use numbers in order to solve problems. Symbols and Algebra 1. Students ask and answer questions involving quantity derived from pictures or situations.