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Primary Grades: Math Ladders

These documents are based on NWEA's Primary Grades Instructional Data. The numbers on the ladders indicate RIT scores, which the students receive on NWEA's MAP for Primary Grades Survey with Goals assessment.

The ladders visually demonstrate how math and reading skills increase in complexity, allowing teachers and parents to better identify the skills each child is ready to learn now and what each child may be ready for next.

Algebra

• Application of Algebraic Concepts
  • Coordinate Graphing
  • Solve - Addition
  • Solve - Multiplication or Division
  • Solve - Subtraction
    
    
• Attributes, Patterns and Functions
  • Functions
  • Growing Patterns
  • Repeating Patterns
    
    
• Understanding Algebraic Concepts
  • Equality
  • Equation Solving
  • Fact Families
  • Properties - Addition
  • Properties - Multiplication
  • Properties - Subtraction
  • Representation and Translation
  • Representations
  • Symbols
  
  

Computation

• Addition
  • Money
  • ≤ 5
  • ≤ 10
  • ≤ 20
  • ≤ 100 - No Regrouping
  • ≤ 100 - With Regrouping
  • ≤ 1000
  • > 1000
    
    
• Readiness for Multiplication and Division
  • ≤ 5
  • ≤ 10
  • ≤ 20
  • ≤ 100 - No Regrouping
    
    
• Subtraction
  • ≤ 5
  • ≤ 10
  • ≤ 20
  • ≤ 100 - No Regrouping
  • ≤ 1000
  • > 1000
  
  

Measurement and Geometry

• Attributes, Compare, Order, Tools, Units
  • Area
  • Capacity
  • Length, Width, Height
  • Money
  • Temperature
  • Time
  • Volume
  • Weight, Mass
    
    
• Identify Attributes: Lines, 2-D, 3-D
  • 2-D Figures
  • 3-D Figures
  • Lines
    
    
• Measure and Estimate
  • Area
  • Length, Width, Height
  • Perimeter
  • Temperature
  • Time
  • Weight, Mass
    
    
• Spatial, Transformations, Symmetry, Congruence
  • Congruency
  • Locations
  • Similarity
  • Spatial Relationships
  • Symmetry
  • Transformations
  • Visualizations
  
  

Number Sense

• Count
  • ≤ 5
  • ≤ 10
  • ≤ 20
  • ≤ 100
  • ≤ 1000
    
    
• Identify, Represent: Whole Numbers, Fractions
  • Fractions
  • Money
  • ≤ 5
  • ≤ 10
  • ≤ 20
  • ≤ 100
  • ≤ 1000
    
    
• Place Value and Base-Ten System
  • ≤ 20
  • ≤ 100
  • ≤ 1000
  • > 1000
    
    
• Relative Position and Magnitude
  • Money
  • ≤ 5
  • ≤ 10
  • ≤ 20
  • ≤ 100
  • ≤ 1000
  • > 1000
  
  

Problem Solving

• Logic, Reasoning, Conjectures, and Proof
  • Conjectures and Proof
  • Logic
  • Reasoning

• Solution Strategies and Verification of Answers
  • Select the Operation
  • Solution Strategies
  • Verify the Solution

• Understand and Represent Word Problems
  • Represent
  • Understand
    

Statistics and Probability

• Data Analysis
  • Bar Graph
  • Circle Graph
  • Pictograph
  • Table
  • Tally

• Data Collection, Organization and Display
  • Bar Graph
  • Pictograph
  • Sorting
  • Table
  • Tally
  • Venn Diagram

• Probability and Predictions
  • Predictions
  • Probability