2020 Colorado Academic Standards Online

Colorado Essential Skills and Mathematical Practices:

1. Abstract \(10\) ones into a single conceptual object called a ten and abstract \(100\) ones or \(10\) tens into a single conceptual object called a hundred. (MP2)
2. Compose, decompose, and compare three-digit numbers according to their base-ten structure. (MP7)

Inquiry Questions:

1. How many hundreds are in the number “four hundred five”? How do you know? How many tens are in the number “four hundred five? How do you know?
2. How many times do you need to skip count by \(5\mbox{s}\) to count as far as skip counting by \(10\mbox{s}\) once?
3. How many times do you need to skip count by \(10\mbox{s}\) to count as far as skip counting by \(100\) once?
4. Why is any two-digit number that starts with \(5\) always larger than a two-digit number that starts with \(3\)?

Coherence Connections:

1. This expectation represents major work of the grade.
2. In Grade 1, students understand place value for two-digit numbers.
3. In Grade 2, this expectation connects with using place value understanding and properties of operations to add and subtract and with working with equal groups of objects to gain foundations for multiplication.
4. In Grade 3, students use place value understanding and properties of operations to perform multi-digit arithmetic.

Colorado Essential Skills and Mathematical Practices:

1. Relate concrete or mental strategies for adding and subtracting within \(100\) to a written method. (Entrepreneurial Skills: Critical Thinking/Problem Solving)
2. Make sense of place value by modeling quantities with drawings or equations. (MP1)
3. Use the base-ten structure to add and subtract, composing and decomposing ones, tens, and hundreds as necessary. (MP7)

Inquiry Questions:

1. Why might it be helpful to view subtraction as an unknown addend problem? (e.g., \(278 + ? = 425\))
2. How might you rewrite \(38 + 47 + 93 + 62\) to make it easier to solve? How do you know it is OK to rewrite it?

Coherence Connections:

1. This expectation represents major work of the grade.
2. In Grade 1, students use place value and properties of operations to make sense of the relationship between addition and subtraction.
3. In Grade 2, this expectation connects with representing and solving problems involving addition and subtraction and fluently adding and subtracting within \(20\).
4. In Grade 3, students use place value understanding and properties of operations to perform multi-digit arithmetic, including fluently adding and subtracting within \(1000\).

Colorado Essential Skills and Mathematical Practices:

1. Decontextualize word problems, use mathematics to solve, and then recontextualize to provide the answer in context. (MP2)
2. Represent situations in word problems using drawings and equations with symbols for unknown numbers. (MP4)

Inquiry Questions:

1. (Given a word problem) What is the unknown quantity in this problem?
2. (Given an addition or subtraction problem) How might you use a model to represent this problem?
3. Does the word “more” in a word problem always mean that you will use addition to solve the problem? Why or why not?

Coherence Connections:

1. This expectation represents the major work of the grade.
2. In Grade 1, students use place value understanding and properties of operations to represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction.
3. This expectation connects with other ideas in Grade 2: (a) using place value understanding and properties of operations to add and subtract, (b) relating addition and subtraction to length, (c) working with time and money, and (d) representing and interpreting data.
4. In Grade 3, students solve problems involving the four operations and identify and explain patterns in arithmetic.

Colorado Essential Skills and Mathematical Practices:

1. Recognize those problems that can be solved mentally versus those that require the use of objects, diagrams, or equations. (MP5)
2. Add and subtract within \(20\) quickly, accurately, and flexibly. (MP6)

Inquiry Questions:

1. How can you use addition and subtraction facts you know to quickly determine facts that you don’t know?
2. Why do you think it is important to know your addition and subtraction facts?

Coherence Connections:

1. This expectation represents major work of the grade.
2. In Grade 1, students use objects and drawings to add and subtract within \(20\) in preparation for fluency with mental strategies in Grade 2.
3. In Grade 2, this expectation connects with using place value understanding and properties of operations to add and subtract within \(1000\) and fluently add and subtract within \(100\).

Colorado Essential Skills and Mathematical Practices:

1. Explore the arrangement of objects and how some arrangements afford mathematical power to solve problems. (Entrepreneurial Skills: Creativity/Innovation)
2. Reason about what it means for numbers to be even and odd. (MP2)
3. Explain why a group of objects is even or odd and if a strategy for deciding works with any group of objects. (MP3)

Inquiry Questions:

1. What does it mean for a number to be even?
2. Do two equal addends always result in an even sum? Why or why not?

Coherence Connections:

1. This expectation supports the major work of the grade.
2. In Grade 1, students work with addition and subtraction equations.
3. In Grade 2, this expectation connects with understanding place value for three-digit numbers.
4. In Grade 3, students solve problems involving the four operations and identify and explain patterns in arithmetic.

Colorado Essential Skills and Mathematical Practices:

1. Consider the correctness of another students’ measurement in which they lined up three large and four small blocks and claimed a path was “seven blocks long.” (MP3)
2. Choose between different measurement tools depending on the objects they need to measure. (MP5)
3. Determine when it is appropriate to estimate an object’s length or when a more precise measurement is needed. (MP6)

Inquiry Questions:

1. What do the numbers on a ruler represent?
2. What is the more appropriate tool for measuring the length of your school hallway, a \(1\)-foot ruler or a \(25\)-foot measuring tape?
3. When is it appropriate to estimate length? When is it not appropriate?

Coherence Connections:

1. This expectation represents major work of the grade.
2. In Grade 1, students measure lengths indirectly and by iterating length units.
3. In Grade 2, this expectation connects with relating addition and subtraction to length and with representing and interpreting data.
4. In Grade 3, students (a) develop understanding of fractions as numbers, (b) solve problems involving measurement and estimation of intervals of time, liquid volumes, and masses of objects, and (c) use concepts of area and relate area to multiplication and to addition.

Colorado Essential Skills and Mathematical Practices:

1. Recognize problems involving lengths and identify possible solutions. (Entrepreneurial Skills: Critical Thinking/Problem Solving)
2. Build on experiences with measurement tools to understand number lines as a more abstract tool for working with quantities. (MP2)
3. Use mathematical representations, like drawings and equations, to model scenarios described in word problems. (MP4)

Inquiry Questions:

1. When might it be necessary to measure parts of objects and then combine those parts together?
2. How is a number line like a ruler?

Coherence Connections:

1. This expectation represents major work of the grade.
2. In Grade 1, students add and subtract within \(20\) and express the length of an object as a whole number of length units.
3. In Grade 2, this expectation connects with measuring and estimating lengths in standard units and with representing and interpreting data.
4. In Grade 3, students develop an understanding of a fraction as a number on a number line.

Colorado Essential Skills and Mathematical Practices:

1. Tell and manage time to be both personally responsible and responsible to the needs of others. (Personal Skills: Personal Responsibility)
2. Make sense of word problems involving money. (MP1)
3. Recognize that time is a quantity that can be measured with different degrees of precision. (MP6)

Inquiry Questions:

1. If the time is 2:25, where would the minute hand be pointing on an analog clock?
2. Does the size of a coin indicate the value of the coin?
3. How is money like our base-ten number system, where it takes ten of one unit to make the next unit (ten ones makes a ten, ten tens make a hundred)? In what ways is it different?

Coherence Connections:

1. This expectation supports the major work of the grade.
2. In Grade 1, students tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks.
3. In Grade 2, this expectation connects with representing and solving problems involving addition and subtraction.
4. In Grade 3, students tell and write time to the nearest minute and measure time intervals in minutes.

Colorado Essential Skills and Mathematical Practices:

1. Organize objects according to measures or categories to help make sense of problems. (MP1)
2. Organize measurement and categorical data into categories based on size or type so comparisons can be made between categories instead of between individual objects. (MP2)
3. Discuss ways in which bar graph orientation (horizontal or vertical), order, thickness, spacing, shading, colors, etc. make the graphs easier or more difficult to interpret. (MP5)

Inquiry Questions:

1. How is organizing objects by length measurements, rounded to the nearest unit, similar to and different from organizing objects by categories?
2. (Given a bar graph representation of up to four categories of animals) How many more birds are there than hippos? How many more giraffes would there need to be in order for the number of giraffes to equal the number of elephants?

Coherence Connections:

1. This expectation supports the major work of the grade.
2. In Grade 1, students organize, represent, and interpret data with up to three categories and compare how many more or less are in one category than another.
3. In Grade 2, this expectation connects with representing and solving problems involving addition and subtraction and with relating addition and subtraction to length.
4. In Grade 3, students draw a scaled picture graph and a scaled bar graph to represent a data set with several categories.

Colorado Essential Skills and Mathematical Practices:

1. Demonstrate flexibility, imagination, and inventiveness in drawing shapes having specified attributes and in partitioning circles and rectangles into equal shares. (Entrepreneurial Skills: Informed Risk Taking)
2. Explore various ways of partitioning shapes into equal shares, such as different methods for dividing a square into fourths, to understand that each partition, regardless of shape, represents an equal share of the square. (MP2)
3. Engage in spatial structuring by tiling rectangles with rows and columns of squares to build understanding of two-dimensional regions. (MP7)

Inquiry Questions:

1. How many different triangles can you draw where two of the sides have the same length?
2. (Given a rectangle) Can you divide this rectangle into three equal parts in more than one way?

Coherence Connections:

1. This expectation is in addition to the major work of Grade 2.
2. In Grade 1, students reason with shapes and their attributes, distinguish between defining and non-defining attributes, compose two-dimensional shapes, and partition circles and rectangles into halves and fourths.
3. In Grade 3, students develop understanding of fractions as numbers, use concepts of area and relate area to multiplication and to addition, and understand that shared attributes in different categories of shapes can define a larger category.