Excerpts of Successful Lessons for Meeting Oregon's Math Standards, a book from Portland State University's Continuing Education Press a book publisher with publications in history, grant writing, legal interpretation, and Getty-Dubay italic handwriting

A Guide to Oregon’s New
K-5 Math
Focal Points

Excerpts

NCTM Focal Points and Connections:
A Quest for Coherence

These topics are recommended content emphasis. It is essential that these focal points be addressed in contexts that promote problem solving, reasoning, communication, making connections and designing and analyzing representations.

	Focal Points			Connections
K	Number and Operations Represent, compare and order whole numbers and join/separate sets	Geometry Describe shapes and space	Measurement Order objects by measurable attributes	Data Analysis Set and resort objects using attributes
1	Number, Operations and Algebra Understand addition and related subtraction strategies and facts	Number and Operations Understand whole- number relationships including grouping in tens and ones	Geometry Compose and decompose geometric shapes	Algebra Apply number patterns and properties to develop addition and subtraction strategies. Recognize 0 as the identity element for addition.