As freshmen, students will focus on developing the following skills:

As sophomores, students will focus on developing the following skills:

• Making sense of problems and persevere in solving them. 

• Looking for and expressing regularity in repeated reasoning.

• Interpreting key features of graphs and tables in terms of quantities and sketch graphs showing key features.

• Using appropriate tools strategically.

• Reasoning abstractly and quantitatively.

• Looking for and making use of structure.

As juniors, students will focus on the following skills:

• Analyzing the key features of a function.

• Analyzing the key features of the graph.

• Identifying the factors of a polynomial.

• Calculating the additional factors of a polynomial.

• Analyzing an equation to determine the optimal solution method.

• Explaining your thinking as you solve.

• Justifying your reasoning behind your solution method.

• Interpreting data to determine the type of function that matches the pattern.

• Creating a function to model the relationship.

• Interpreting the structure of an expression.

• Interpreting the structure of an equation.

As seniors, students will focus on the following skills:

• Using exact vocabulary correctly and in context.

• Making connections between mathematical vocabulary and real world context.

• Using correct math vocabulary and putting it into context.

• Using SOCS to analyze quantitative data and using percentages to analyze categorical data.

• Making connections between types of statistical graphs and measures.

• Using graphs and equations to explain key features.

• Making connections between types of statistical graphs and measures.

• Making connections between equations, graphs, and results back to the original context.

• Making conclusions about causation based on statistical inference procedures.

• Considering implications and limitations of results.

• Including mathematical values/results AND context in conclusions.