Directions:

Pre-unit Response - At the beginning of each unit, you are expected to answer the corresponding essential question(s). Please complete before the first day of the new unit.

Your answers to the essential questions will be graded according to the exemplar rubric - novice, practicioner, apprentice, or expert.

Post-unit Response - At the end of the unit, you must revise your essential question(s). Complete after the unit test has been administered.

Pre and post essential questions must be placed in your folders.

Number Sense

2. How are number concepts and reasoning necessary for solving everyday problems?

1. Why is it important to know what mathematical operation to use in different situations? Give examples.

Estimation/Approximation

1. How and when do people use estimation skills in real life?
2. Is over or under estimating an answer ever a problem?

Ratios, Proportion and Percents

1. What types of information are more effectively communicated using ratios, proportions and percents? Why?

Essential Questions Measurement

1. Why is measurement important in our world?

2. Why convert measurements from one unit to another?

Spatial Relationships and Geometry

1. Why is the idea of geometry important?

Probability and Statistics

1. What types of situations require the collection of data?

2. When would it be helpful to collect more than one set of data?

Patterns

1. How have patterns been used to make discoveries about our world and ourselves?

Algebra and Functions

1. How do mathematical formulas help us to be more efficient problem solvers?

Discrete Mathematics

1. Why display data in different forms?

Integrated Understandings