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| Students Understand Their Role in the Natural World. | Personal and Global Stewardship: "requires awareness and a concern for oneself, others and the environment. It involves interactions not only within the self and family, but between the self and friends, the community, the nation, the world. It includes the knowledge and care of all dimensions of ourselves as humans, an understanding of the group process, and a willingness to exercise the rights and responsibilities of citizenship." [Pg. 20] | Mathematics as Connections |
Common Themes Human Society Values and Attitudes The Living Environment |
Science in Personal and Social Perspectives |
| Students Communicate Effectively in Mathematics and Science. | Communication: refers to the ability of human beings to communicate through a variety of media with a high degree of specificity as one of our most remarkable achievements. "In a rapidly changing world, communication skills will become ever more essential to our students' future success." [Pg. 23] | Mathematics as Communication | Communication Skills | |
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Understand the Nature of Mathematics and Science. Students Are Problem Solvers in Mathematics and Science. Students Reason Effectively in Mathematics and Science. |
Reasoning & Problem Solving: refers to those areas where knowledge and skills are both essential to each other and learned together. "Knowledge has limited problem solving value in the absence of the ability to apply it skillfully." [Pg. 25] |
Mathematics as Problem Solving Mathematics as Reasoning |
The
Nature of Science The Nature of Mathematics The Nature of Technology The Mathematical World Manipulation and Observation Critical-Response Skills |
The
Nature of Science Unifying Concepts and Processes Science as Inquiry Science and Technology |
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Students Attain Essential Knowledge and Skills in Mathematics
and Science. Students Understand the Historical and Societal Implications of Mathematics and Science. |
The Human Record: refers to those areas requiring familiarity with specified topics and/or possession of certain skills. "The study of the human record not only includes the actions and events of the past, but also the constructs of human thought and creativity as they have evolved through time." [Pg. 28] |
Estimation Trigonometry
Number
Sense Discrete Math Geometry Statistics Probability Algebra Measurement |
Historical Perspectives The Physical Setting The Living Environment The Human Organism The Designed World Computation & Estimation |
Physical Science Life Science Earth and Space Science The History of Science |
* Curriculum & Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics--NCTM)
** Benchmarks for Science Literacy (American Association for the Advancement of Science--AAAS)
*** National Science Education Standards [Draft] (National Research Council--NRC)
----------------------------- Maine's Curriculum Framework for Mathematics and Science-----------------------------