Glastonbury Public Schools Mathematics Department
Enduring Understandings
Through the Development of Enduring Understanding of Mathematics, students learn that math makes sense.
Number: What is a number and why do people need numbers?
Flexibility with Numbers - Equality: What is equality?
Place Value: How does understanding place value help a mathematician solve problems with numbers?
Decomposition: How do breaking numbers and whole units into parts help build number sense and fluency?
Structure: How are the four arithmetic operations related to each other?
Part/whole: Why are there multiple ways to represent parts of a whole?
Unknowns: How can symbolic representation of an unknown in a problem help us to solve problems?
Proportional Relationships: What is a proportional relationship and how can proportional relationships help us to solve problems?
Algebra: What is algebra?
Functions: What is a function and how can understanding function families help us to solve problems?
Reasoning: How do mathematicians learn and justify their discoveries?
Features of Functions: How do function families behave and how can understanding the behaviors help us to make predictions and solve problems?
Motion: How do functions and equations model motion?