Standard for Mathematical Practice
Essential Question
IS WHAT I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN ALL I
REALLY NEED TO KNOW?
(see Robert Fulghum’s guide for Global Leadership)
“All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how
to be, I learned in Kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the
graduate school mountain, but there in the sand pile at school.”
Define a function (in a mathematical sense)
A function is a set of ordered pairs for
which each element of the domain
(input) is paired with exactly one
element of the range (output).
For example: f(x) = 5 - x
x
5-x
f(x)
x
5
4
3
2
1
0
f(x)
0
1
2
3
4
5
Look through the Kindergarten Common Core
Mathematics content standards and find an example of a
function.
Do you think there was a reason we chose the function
f(x) = 5 – x?
Number and Operations
in Base-Eight
How does this standard relate to the structure of Base8? Base-10?
Aunt Martha’s Cupcakes
Aunt Martha has 5 trays of cupcakes. She describes
how they were arranged:
There are 100 total cupcakes on the trays. The first
and second trays have 52 cupcakes, the second and
third trays have 43 cupcakes, the third and fourth
trays have 34 cupcakes, and the fourth and fifth
trays have 30 cupcakes.
How many cupcakes are in each tray?
Find the ones digit of…
2
2013