New York State Core Curriculum:
Subject: Mathematics
Level: Grade 3-4
Key Idea or Concept 1: Students use mathematical reasoning to analyze
mathematical situations, make conjectures, gather evidence, and construct an
argument.
Performance Indicator or Area 1B: Use patterns and relationships to analyze
mathematical situations.
Major Understanding: Understanding the relationship between money and
decimals.
Key Idea or Concept 2: Students use number sense and numeration to develop
an understanding of the multiple uses of numbers in the real world, the use
of numbers to communicate mathematically, and the use of numbers in the
development of mathematical situations.
Performance Indicator or Area 2A: Use the whole numbers and fractions to
identify locations, quantify groups of objects, and measure distance.
Performance Indicator or Area 2C: Relate counting to grouping and to place
value.
Major Understanding: Understanding the use of decimals in the child�s daily
life.
Major Understanding: Understanding decimals to the hundredths place value.
Key Idea or Concept 3: Students use mathematical operations and
relationships among them to understand mathematics.
Performance Indicator or Area 3A. Add, subtract, and multiply whole numbers
Key Idea or Concept 6: Students use ideas of uncertainty to illustrate that
mathematics involves more than exactness when dealing with everyday
situations.
Performance Indicator or Area 6B: Make estimates to compare actual results
of computations.
Major Understanding: Understanding estimation in everyday situations, such
as grocery budgeting.
Major Understanding: Understanding the relationships between estimated and
actual costs.
