Wisconsin Standards for Mathematics Standards - High School Strands
The Wisconsin vision for mathematics is shaped by Wisconsin practitioners, experts, and the business community, and is informed by work at the national level and in other states. The overarching goal of Wisconsin’s vision for mathematics is for students to see themselves as confident doers and learners of mathematics, supporting the department’s vision to be college and career ready.
- Modeling
- Number and Quantities
- Algebra
- Functions
- Geometry
- Statistics & Probability
Standards for Mathematical Practice
The Standards for Mathematical Practices are central to the teaching and learning of mathematics. These practices describe the behaviors and habits of mind that are exhibited by students who are mathematically proficient.
- Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them
- Reason abstractly and quantitatively
- Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others
- Model with mathematics
- Use appropriate tools strategically
- Attend to precision
- Look for and make use of structure
- Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning
Standards for AP Statistics
The Statistial Practices for AP Statististics represent the basic statistical process, used by statisticians.
- Formulate Questions
- Collect Data
- Analyze Data>
- Interpret Results
Cross-Curricular Literacy Standards
Reading, writing, speaking, listening and critical thinking must be integrated into each discipline across all grades so that all students gradually build knowledge and skills toward college and career readiness.
- Demonstrate independence.
- Build strong content and knowledge.
- Respond to the varying demands of audience, task, purpose and discipline.
- Comprehend as well as critique.
- Value evidence.
- Use technology and digital media strategically and capably.
- Come to understand other perspectives and cultures.
Technical Literacy Standards
To enter any academic discipline is to become comfortable with its ways of looking at and communicating about the world. Algebra, for instance, focuses on interactions among real or imagined objects, and it translates those interactions in to a simple shorthand language that permits description of how any given "A" relates to a "B" or a "C".
- Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of science and technical texts, attending to the precise details of explanations or descriptions.
- Determine the central ideas or conclusions of a text; trace the text's explanation or depiction of a complex process, phenomenon, or concept; provide an accurate summary of the text.
- Follow precisely a complex multi-step procedure when carrying out experiments, taking measurements, or performing technical tasks, attending to special cases or exceptions defined in the text.
- Determine the meaning of symbols, key terms, and other domain-specific words and phrases as they are used in a specific scientific or technical context.
- Analyze the structure of the relationships among concepts in a text, including relationships among key terms (e.g., force, friction, reaction force, energy).
- Analyze the author's purpose in providing an explanation, describing a procedure, or discussing an experiment in a text, defining the question the author seeks to address.
- Translate quantitative or technical information expressed in words in a text into visual form (e.g., a table or chart) and translate information expressed visually or mathematically (e.g., in an equation) into words.
- Assess the extent to which the reasoning and evidence in a text support the author's claim or a recommendation for solving a scientific or technical problem.
- Compare and contrast findings presented in a text to those from other sources (including their own experiments), noting when the findings support or contradict previous explanations or accounts.
- Read and comprehend science/technical texts independently and proficiently.