Our analysis of the Colorado Academic Standards provides:
Transfer Goals to inform your unit goals. Transfer Goals establish the purpose and relevance to the learning. They enable learners to transfer learning to new contexts/situations and promote more robust thinking activities.
Essential Understandings to inform your long-term learning targets. These identify the important ideas and core processes that are central to the discipline. Essential understandings synthesize what students should understand, not just know and do.
The "Know and Be Able to" sections tell us what students will understand in regard to content (know) and how students will apply this information (be able to).
STANDARD 1: NUMBER AND QUANTITY
Grade Level Expectation: Extend the counting sequence.
Evidence Outcomes:
a. Count to 120, starting at any number less than 120. In this range, read and write numerals and represent a number of objects with a written numeral. (CCSS: 1.NBT.A.1)
Transfer Goals: Based on the Evidence Outcomes, what will students transfer to new contexts/situations?
The structure and pattern of a number provides meaning
Essential Understandings: In order to meet these transfer goals, the essential ideas and core process students must understand are...
Numbers follow a sequence and the sequence from 1-9 repeats
Numbers follow a predictable pattern
In order to meet these essential understandings, students must know...
Academic Vocabulary: pattern, skip counting, odd/even, sequence, pennies nickels, dimes, hundreds chart
Significance of the quantity when represented with objects
Read numerals to 120
How to write numerals to 120 with correct formation
Identify patterns in number sequence
Skip Counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s (expose to real world connections: money, time, tally marks)
* 120 is the minimum number to meet the expectation of the standard
In order to meet these essential understandings, students must be able to...
Count to 120 beginning from any number less that 120
Read up to 120
Write numbers up to 120 with correct formation
Represent numbers with objects
Explain patterns in numbers
Apply number pattern schema when counting or encountering unfamiliar numbers
Count by 2s, 5s, 10s
STANDARD 1: NUMBER AND QUANTITY
Grade Level Expectation: Understand place value.
Evidence Outcomes:
Understand that the two digits of a two- digit number represent amounts of tens and ones. Understand the following as special cases: (CCSS: 1.NBT.B.2)10 can be thought of as a bundle of ten ones; called a “ten.” (CCSS: 1.NBT.B.2.a) The numbers from 11 to 19 are composed of a ten and one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine ones. (CCSS: 1.NBT.B.2.b) The numbers 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90 refer to one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine tens (and 0 ones). (CCSS: 1.NBT.B.2.c)
Compare two two-digit numbers based on meanings of the tens and one's digits, recording the results of comparisons with the symbols >, =, and <. (CCSS: 1.NBT.B.3)
Transfer Goals: Based on the Evidence Outcomes, what will students transfer to new contexts/situations?
Recognize patterns of the base ten system to make sense of unfamiliar numbers and apply it to new contexts and mathematical operations.
Essential Understandings: In order to meet these transfer goals, the essential ideas and core processes students must understand are...
The digit’s position in a number has a specific value
There are multiple ways to compose and decompose numbers
10 can be thought of as a bundle of ten ones - called a “ten”
Numbers represent different values that can be greater than, equal to, or less than
In order to meet these essential understandings, students must know...
Academic Vocabulary: digit, place value, base ten, ones, tens, greater than, less than, equal to, standard form, expanded form, unit form
Numbers represent a quantity
Two digits represent amounts of tens and ones
10 can be thought of as a bundle of ten ones- also known as a “ten”
11-19 are composed of a ten and ones
Skip counting by tens (10, 20, 30…)
10, 20, 30 ...refers to 1, 2, 3 groups of tens
Symbols for comparing >, <, =
Exposure to the hundreds position in a 3 digit number
In order to meet these essential understandings, students must be able to...
Understand and explain that a 2 digit number represents tens and ones
Compose/decompose numbers to 100 into tens and ones and justify thinking
Use objects, drawings, and equations to show compositions and decompositions
Compare two 2 digit numbers based on meanings of the tens and ones
Record comparisons using accurate symbols >, <, =
Use reasoning to explain thinking
STANDARD 1: NUMBER AND QUANTITY
Grade Level Expectation: Use place value understanding and properties of operations to add and subtract.
Evidence Outcomes:
Add within 100, including adding a two- digit number and a one-digit number, and adding a two-digit number and a multiple of 10, using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction; relate the strategy to a written method and explain the reasoning used. Understand that in adding two-digit numbers, one adds tens and tens, ones and ones; and sometimes it is necessary to compose a ten. (CCSS: 1.NBT.C.4)
Given a two-digit number, mentally find 10 more or 10 less than the number, without having to count; explain the reasoning used. (CCSS: 1.NBT.C.5)
Subtract multiples of 10 in the range 10– 90 from multiples of 10 in the range 10– 90 (positive or zero differences), using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction; relate the strategy to a written method and explain the reasoning used. (CCSS: 1.NBT.C.6)
Transfer Goals: Based on the Evidence Outcomes, what will students transfer to new contexts/situations?
Operations can be used to solve problems
Examine and apply a variety of strategies to accurately and effectively solve problems
Essential Understandings: In order to meet these transfer goals, the essential ideas and core process students must understand are...
You can add and subtract without counting by ones
The relationship between addition and subtraction
Situations can be represented mathematically using addition and subtraction
In order to meet these essential understandings, students must know...
Academic Vocabulary: sum, difference, compose, decompose, mental math, equation
Addition and subtraction strategies
The structure of place value
Numbers up to 100 (written numerals and the quantity represented)
The relationship between adding and subtracting
Multiples of 10 (and the use of a hundredths chart)
Number sentences (equation in written form)
Correlation of skip counting and repeated addition
In order to meet these essential understandings, students must be able to...
Add and subtract with 100
Add and subtract fluently within 10
Model quantities with drawings and equations
Use base ten structure to add and subtract
Add and subtract multiples of 10
Relate the strategies to their written forms
Make thinking visible to demonstrate understanding
STANDARD 2: ALGEBRA AND FUNCTIONS
Grade Level Expectation: Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction.
Evidence Outcomes:
Use addition and subtraction within 20 to solve word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions, e.g., by using objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem. (CCSS: 1.OA.A.1)
Solve word problems that call for addition of three whole numbers whose sum is less than or equal to 20, e.g., by using objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem. (CCSS: 1.OA.A.2)
Transfer Goals: Based on the Evidence Outcomes, what will students transfer to new contexts/situations?
The ability to make sense of problems and persevere in solving them
Examine and apply a variety of strategies to accurately and effectively solve problems
Essential Understandings: In order to meet these transfer goals, the essential ideas and core processes students must understand are...
Situations can be represented mathematically using addition and subtraction
There is more than one way to solve a problem
In order to meet these essential understandings, students must know...
Academic Vocabulary: part-part-whole, adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, compare
How to monitor for meaning in math
Identify key numbers and words that are relevant to solving the problem
How to determine importance in a word problem
Addition and subtraction strategies
Relationship between addition and subtraction
Tools and ways of modeling addition/subtraction (objects, drawings, and equations)
In order to meet these essential understandings, students must be able to...
Monitor for meaning to determine the operation of the word problem
Determine importance in a word problem
Use various addition and subtraction strategies to solve word problems
Solve problems with unknowns in all positions
Use objects and drawings to model thinking
Relate strategies to their written form
Attend to precision with another strategy
Explain and justify thinking
STANDARD 2: ALGEBRA AND FUNCTIONS
Grade Level Expectation: Understand and apply properties of operations and the relationship between addition and subtraction.
Evidence Outcomes:
Apply properties of operations as strategies to add and subtract. (Students need not use formal terms for these properties.) Examples: If 8 + 3 = 11 is known, then 3 + 8 = 11 is also known. (Commutative property of addition.) To add 2 + 6 + 4, the second two numbers can be added to make a ten, so 2 + 6 + 4 = 2 + 10 = 12. (Associative property of addition.) (CCSS: 1.OA.B.3)
Understand subtraction as an unknown- addend problem. For example, subtract 10 - 8 by finding the number that makes 10 when added to 8. (CCSS: 1.OA.B.4)
Transfer Goals: Based on the Evidence Outcomes, what will students transfer to new contexts/situations?
Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them
When and how to use the relationship between adding and subtracting
Essential Understandings: In order to meet these transfer goals, the essential ideas and core processes students must understand are...
Situations can be represented mathematically using addition or subtraction
In order to meet these essential understandings, students must know...
Academic Vocabulary: operation, addend, commutative property, associative property.
Concept of order of operations
The properties of operations
Understand subtraction as an unknown addend problem
Commutative property of addition (8+3=11, and 3+8=11)
Associative property of addition
(2+6+4 = 2+10 = 12)
In order to meet these essential understandings, students must be able to...
Solve reciprocal math problems
Use Associative Property when solving math problems
Use Commutative Property when solving math problems
Show more than one way to solve a problem
Explain the understanding behind the commutative property
Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others
STANDARD 2: ALGEBRA AND FUNCTIONS
Grade Level Expectation: Add and subtract within 20.
Evidence Outcomes:
Relate counting to addition and subtraction (e.g., by counting on 2 to add 2). (CCSS: 1.OA.C.5)
Add and subtract within 20, demonstrating fluency for addition and subtraction within 10. Use strategies such as counting on; making ten (e.g., 8 + 6 = 8 + 2 + 4 = 10 + 4 = 14); decomposing a number leading to a ten (e.g., 13 - 4 = 13 - 3 - 1 = 10 - 1 = 9); using the relationship between addition and subtraction (e.g., knowing that 8 + 4 = 12, one knows 12 - 8 = 4); and creating equivalent but easier or known sums (e.g., adding 6 + 7 by creating the known equivalent 6 + 6 + 1 = 12 + 1 = 13). (CCSS: 1.OA.C.6)
Transfer Goals: Based on the Evidence Outcomes, what will students transfer to new contexts/situations?
The ability to use a variety of strategies to solve addition and subtraction problems with automaticity
Essential Understandings: In order to meet these transfer goals, the essential ideas and core processes students must understand are...
There are multiple strategies to think about problems and see how the quantities involved support the use of some strategies over other
The importance of and the strategies for mental math
In order to meet these essential understandings, students must know...
Academic Vocabulary: mental math, equivalent, number line, fact family, double
Addition and Subtraction strategies and tools
Counting on (number line, charts…)
Making ten (8+2+4 instead of 8+6)
Decomposing a number leading to a ten
Using the relationship between addition and subtraction
Creating equivalent but easier or known sums (instead of 6+7, 6+6+1)
Doubles (2+2)
Tens frame/ hundreds chart/ place value chart
In order to meet these essential understandings, students must be able to...
Use mental math to fluently compute operations within 10
Use structure of numbers to make tens
Relate counting to addition and subtraction
Evaluate the problem and determine importance to choose the most efficient strategy
Use multiple strategies when adding and subtracting
Make thinking visible and use academic vocabulary to explain your process
STANDARD 2: ALGEBRA AND FUNCTIONS
Grade Level Expectation: Work with addition and subtraction equations.
Evidence Outcomes:
Understand the meaning of the equal sign, and determine if equations involving addition and subtraction are true or false. For example, which of the following equations are true and which are false? 6 = 6, 7 = 8 - 1, 5 + 2 = 2 + 5, 4 + 1 = 5 + 2. (CCSS: 1.OA.D.7)
Determine the unknown whole number in an addition or subtraction equation relating three whole numbers. For example, determine the unknown number that makes the equation true in each of the equations 8 + _= 11, 5 = - 3, 6 + 6 =_ . (CCSS: 1.OA.D.8)
Transfer Goals: Based on the Evidence Outcomes, what will students transfer to new contexts/situations?
Make sense of quantities and their relationships with the use of an equal sign
Essential Understandings: In order to meet these transfer goals, the essential ideas and core processes students must understand are...
The significance and purpose of an equal sign
The associative property (2+6+3 = 5+6 …)
In order to meet these essential understandings, students must know...
The parts of a ‘number sentence’ (written equation)
Equal Sign
Operation signs
Understanding the concept of greater than and less than (to evaluate each side of the equation)
The concept of the equal sign
Schema relating to addition and subtraction
In order to meet these essential understandings, students must be able to...
Determine if equations involving addition/subtraction are true or false
Determine the unknown whole number in any position of the equation (relating up to 3 whole numbers)
STANDARD 3: DATA, STATISTICS, AND PROBABILITY
Grade Level Expectation: Measure lengths indirectly and by iterating length units.
Evidence Outcomes:
Order three objects by length; compare the lengths of two objects indirectly by using a third object. (CCSS: 1.MD.A.1)
Express the length of an object as a whole number of length units, by laying multiple copies of a shorter object (the length unit) end to end; understand that the length measurement of an object is the number of same-size length units that span it with no gaps or overlaps. Limit to contexts where the object being measured is spanned by a whole number of length units with no gaps or overlaps. (CCSS: 1.MD.A.2)
Transfer Goals: Based on the Evidence Outcomes, what will students transfer to new contexts/situations?
The spacial awareness to compare measurable attributes
Abstract comparisons between lengths
Essential Understandings: In order to meet these transfer goals, the essential ideas and core process students must understand are...
Students will understand…
That length measurement is the number of same-sized length units that span it with no gaps or overlaps.
While the size of the item is constant, the measurement tool can change, and will then change the measurement of the item.
In order to meet these essential understandings, students must know...
Academic Vocabulary: horizontal, vertical, unit, length, standard nonstandard
Unit of measurement
Greater than/ less than (in size and numerically)
Spacial awareness in the lens of comparison
Concept of length
Conceptions of comparison:
conservation (no matter how you organize 5 toys, they will still be a group of 5),
seriation (positioning, ordering a sequence),
iteration (repetition of a process).
In order to meet these essential understandings, students must be able to...
Measure objects without gaps or overlaps
Using nonstandard tools of measurement
Direct comparisons of objects
Measure 2 objects indirectly by using a third object
Compare lengths of objects
Order objects by length
Express the length of an object as a whole number of length units
STANDARD 3: DATA, STATISTICS, AND PROBABILITY
Grade Level Expectation: Tell and write time.
Evidence Outcomes:
Tell and write time in hours and half- hours using analog and digital clocks. (CCSS: 1.MD.B.3)
Organize, represent, and interpret data with up to three categories; ask and answer questions about the total number of data points, how many in each category, and how many more or less are in one category than in another. (CCSS: 1.MD.C.4)
Transfer Goals: Based on the Evidence Outcomes, what will students transfer to new contexts/situations?
Tell and manage time to be both personally responsible and responsible to the needs of others
Essential Understandings: In order to meet these transfer goals, the essential ideas and core process students must understand are...
The relationship between hours, half hours, and minutes, and relate that understanding to analog and digital clock faces.
Recognize that time is a quantity that can be measured with different degrees of precision
In order to meet these essential understandings, students must know...
Academic Vocabulary: analog, digital, AM/PM, noon, midnight
Format of an analog clock
Format of a digital clock
Hour hand
Minute hand
Clockwise direction and how it correlates to numbers
Exposure to AM/PM
Purpose for telling time
In order to meet these essential understandings, students must be able to...
Identify hour and minute hand
Distinguish difference between digital and analog
Tell time in hours and half hours using analog and digital clocks
Write time in hours and half hours using digital and analog clocks.
Record time on a blank clock face
Explain the relationship between a time and the clock face.
STANDARD 3: DATA, STATISTICS, AND PROBABILITY
Grade Level Expectation: Represent and interpret data.
Evidence Outcomes:
Organize, represent, and interpret data with up to three categories; ask and answer questions about the total number of data points, how many in each category, and how many more or less are in one category than in another. (CCSS: 1.MD.C.4)
Transfer Goals: Based on the Evidence Outcomes, what will students transfer to new contexts/situations?
The ability to organize, represent, and interpret data in different situations
Essential Understandings: In order to meet these transfer goals, the essential ideas and core processes students must understand are...
Data can be represented and categorized in a variety of ways to deepen understanding
In order to meet these essential understandings, students must know...
Academic Vocabulary: data, categorize/category, table, picture graph, bar graph, tally marks, line plot
Multiple ways to categorize
Attributes
Similarities and differences
Concept of greater than/less than
Skills to compare different categories and data sets
Exposure to different representational formats for data
Object attributes can determine the grouping of data
In order to meet these essential understandings, students must be able to...
Categorize objects based on attributes
Abstract similar objects into new conceptual groups
Organize data
Use appropriate labels
Ask questions about represented data
Answer questions about represented data
Justify how you categorized
Explain the purpose for gathering and representing data
Engage in respectful discourse with peers to understand another point of view
STANDARD 4: GEOMETRY
Grade Level Expectation: Reason with shapes and their attributes
Evidence Outcomes:
Distinguish between defining attributes (e.g., triangles are closed and three- sided) versus non-defining attributes (e.g., color, orientation, overall size); build and draw shapes to possess defining attributes. (CCSS: 1.G.A.1)
Compose two-dimensional shapes (rectangles, squares, trapezoids, triangles, half-circles, and quarter-circles) or three-dimensional shapes (cubes, right rectangular prisms, right circular cones, and right circular cylinders) to create a composite shape, and compose new shapes from the composite shape. (Students do not need to learn formal names, such as “right rectangular prisms.”) (CCSS: 1.G.A.2)
Partition circles and rectangles into two and four equal shares, describe the shares using the words halves, fourths, and quarters, and use the phrases half of, fourth of, and quarter of. Describe the whole as two of, or four of the shares. Understand for these examples that decomposing into more equal shares creates smaller shares. (CCSS: 1.G.A.3)
Transfer Goals: Based on the Evidence Outcomes, what will students transfer to new contexts/situations?
Students will transfer...
Describe the physical world from geometric perspectives
The imagination, flexibility, and inventiveness to compose, decompose and/or compare two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes
Essential Understandings: In order to meet these transfer goals, the essential ideas and core processes students must understand are...
Shapes exist in the world, and they can help us make meaning of our surroundings
A whole shape can be broken apart, and we can use 2D and 3D shapes to create composite shapes.
We can apply our understanding of shapes to analyze, compare and compose shapes
In order to meet these essential understandings, students must know...
Academic Vocabulary: attributes, defining attributes, non-defining attributes, two-dimensional, three-dimensional, corner/vertex, side/edge, face, halves/half of, fourths/quarters/quarter of
Attributes of shapes
Difference between defining attributes and non-defining attributes
Two-dimensional shapes
Rectangles
Squares
Trapezoids
Triangles
Half circles
Quarter circles
Three-dimensional shapes
Cubes
Prisms
Cones
cylinders
Schema of composing and decomposing shapes and pieces of shapes (equal shares)
In order to meet these essential understandings, students must be able to...
Identify names of shapes
Sort shapes by defining attributes
Compose shapes using their defining attributes
Distinguish defining attributes vs. non-defining attributes
Justify whether shapes belong in the non-defining or defining attributes category
Compose 2D and 3D shapes to create a composite shape (i.e. build a structure using three-dimensional shapes)
Compose new shapes from the composite shape
Partition whole shapes into two or four equal shares