Cluster and Standards

1. Identify connections across a cluster of standards. Read the full language of the cluster, and consider what students need to know and be able to do.

· What are the main concepts and ideas within this cluster?

2. Reflect on the parts and the whole. Read through each of the standards within the cluster, and consider what students need to know and be able to do. But remember, we’re not just unpacking standards into individual objectives that we’ll teach and check off a list—we’re looking to make connections across standards, so students understand concepts and ideas as a unified whole, instead of as discrete, isolated parts of a whole.

· What will students know and be able to do if they’ve successfully mastered the standards within this cluster?

· How does each standard connect to the cluster?

· How does each standard connect to other standards in the cluster?

3. Determine the aspect(s) of rigor at play. Study the language of each standard within the cluster to identify whether it requires conceptual understanding, procedural fluency, and/or that a mathematical concept is applied.

· Does this standard require conceptual understanding, procedural fluency, and/or application?

Adapted from the Achievement Network “Understanding Math Clusters and Standards”