Skill plan for the Michigan Student Test of Educational Progress - 6th grade
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Concepts and Procedures
Connecting ratio and rate to whole number multiplication and division and using concepts of ratio and rate to solve problems
Target A: Understand ratio concepts and use ratio reasoning to solve problems.
Target A: Understand ratio concepts and use ratio reasoning to solve problems.
Completing understanding of division of fractions and extending the notion of number to the system of rational numbers, which includes negative numbers
Target B: Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division to divide fractions by fractions.
Target B: Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division to divide fractions by fractions.
Target D: Apply and extend previous understandings of numbers to the system of rational numbers.
Target D: Apply and extend previous understandings of numbers to the system of rational numbers.
Writing, interpreting, and using expressions and equations
Target E: Apply and extend previous understandings of arithmetic to algebraic expressions.
Target E: Apply and extend previous understandings of arithmetic to algebraic expressions.
Target F: Reason about and solve one?variable equations and inequalities.
Target F: Reason about and solve one?variable equations and inequalities.
Target G: Represent and analyze quantitative relationships between dependent and independent variables.
Target G: Represent and analyze quantitative relationships between dependent and independent variables.
Developing understanding of statistical thinking
Target I: Develop an understanding of statistics variability.
Target I: Develop an understanding of statistics variability.
Target J: Summarize and describe distributions.
Target J: Summarize and describe distributions.
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Target H: Solve real?world and mathematical problems involving area, surface area, and volume.
Target H: Solve real?world and mathematical problems involving area, surface area, and volume.
Target C: Compute fluently with multi-digit numbers and find common factors and multiples.
Target C: Compute fluently with multi-digit numbers and find common factors and multiples.
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Problem Solving
Target A: Apply mathematics to solve well-posed problems in pure mathematics and arising in everyday life, society, and the workplace.
Target A: Apply mathematics to solve well-posed problems in pure mathematics and arising in everyday life, society, and the workplace.
Target B: Select and use appropriate tools strategically.
Target B: Select and use appropriate tools strategically.
Target C: Interpret results in the context of a situation.
Target C: Interpret results in the context of a situation.
Target D: Identify important quantities in a practical situation and map their relationships (e.g., using diagrams, two?way tables, graphs, flowcharts, or formulas).
Target D: Identify important quantities in a practical situation and map their relationships (e.g., using diagrams, two?way tables, graphs, flowcharts, or formulas).
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Communicating Reasoning
Target A: Test propositions or conjectures with specific examples.
Target A: Test propositions or conjectures with specific examples.
Target B: Construct, autonomously, chains of reasoning that will justify or refute propositions or conjectures.
Target B: Construct, autonomously, chains of reasoning that will justify or refute propositions or conjectures.
Target C: State logical assumptions being used.
Target C: State logical assumptions being used.
Target D: Use the technique of breaking an argument into cases.
Target D: Use the technique of breaking an argument into cases.
Target E: Distinguish correct logic or reasoning from that which is flawed and?if there is a flaw in the argument?explain what it is.
Target E: Distinguish correct logic or reasoning from that which is flawed and?if there is a flaw in the argument?explain what it is.
Target F: Base arguments on concrete references such as objects, drawings, diagrams, and actions.
Target F: Base arguments on concrete references such as objects, drawings, diagrams, and actions.
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Modeling and Data Analysis
Target A: Apply mathematics to solve problems arising in everyday life, society, and the workplace.
Target A: Apply mathematics to solve problems arising in everyday life, society, and the workplace.
Target B: Construct, autonomously, chains of reasoning to justify mathematical models used, interpretations made, and solutions proposed for a complex problem.
Target B: Construct, autonomously, chains of reasoning to justify mathematical models used, interpretations made, and solutions proposed for a complex problem.
Target C: State logical assumptions being used.
Target C: State logical assumptions being used.
Target D: Interpret results in the context of a situation.
Target D: Interpret results in the context of a situation.
Target E: Analyze the adequacy of and make improvements to an existing model or develop a mathematical model of a real phenomenon.
Target E: Analyze the adequacy of and make improvements to an existing model or develop a mathematical model of a real phenomenon.
Target F: Identify important quantities in a practical situation and map their relationships (e.g., using diagrams, two?way tables, graphs, flowcharts, or formulas).
Target F: Identify important quantities in a practical situation and map their relationships (e.g., using diagrams, two?way tables, graphs, flowcharts, or formulas).
Target G: Identify, analyze, and synthesize relevant external resources to pose or solve problems.
Target G: Identify, analyze, and synthesize relevant external resources to pose or solve problems.
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