MATHEMATICS
District 52 uses the New Illinois Learning Standards to teach Mathematics to students in Grades K-8. During the 2024-2025 school year, the 3rd - 8th grade students will be taught using the Illustrative Math Curriculum, which is a problem-based mathematics curriculum. Grades K-2 will continue using Everyday Math this year and will transition to Illustrative next year.
There are eight Math Practice Standards that are implemented in all grades. These are the practices students use while learning the mathematics content. They include:
Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them
Reason abstractly and quantitatively
Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others
Model with mathematics
Use appropriate tools strategically
Attend to precision
Look for and make sense of structure
Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning
The Math Content Standards include:
Kindergarten:
Counting and Cardinality
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Number and Operations in Base Ten
Measurement and Data
Geometry
1st & 2nd Grade
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Number and Operations in Base Ten
Measurement and Data
Geometry
3rd, 4th, & 5th Grade
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Number and Operations in Base Ten
Number Operations-Fractions
Measurement and Data
Geometry
6th & 7th Grade
Ratios and Proportional Relationships
The Number System
Expressions and Equations
Geometry
Statistics and Probability
8th Grade
The Number System
Expressions and Equations
Functions
Geometry
Statistics and Probability