Learn to give instructions for distance and direction. Express paths graphically and computationally on paper. Students use algebra in every other strand to symbolize, generalize and communicate. Students collect, organize, record and explain information and make predictions using statistics and probability. This is essential in an information society.
Students use real tools to measure real objects.
Measurement also includes the use of nonstandard tools of measurement. Students investigate the connection between mathematics and the world around them in both a concrete and an abstract geometric sense. The number strand permeates all the other strands. Students learn how to use different kinds of numbers and basic operations. The central concept of proportional relationships is the representation of one quantity as a proportion of another.