Mathematics curriculum in kindergarten through grade four builds upon students’ number sense to develop deep mathematical understandings. Students and teachers concentrate on a focused set of major math concepts and skills in the following areas: Counting and Cardinality, Operations & Algebraic Thinking, Number and Operations, Measurement & Data, and Geometry. Through guided exploration, hands-on and collaborative learning experiences, and exposure to rich and challenging mathematical problems, students build connections in their mathematical thinking that support growth in the next and consecutive grade levels.

There are 8 standards of Mathematical Practice that span all grade levels and all areas of mathematics. These standards of practice are incorporated into mathematics instruction to support student growth. The standards are:

1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them

2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively

3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others

4. Model with mathematics

5. Use appropriate tools strategically

6. Attend to precision

7. Look for and make use of structure

8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.