High School — Number and Quantity
Standards for Mathematical Practice
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Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.CCSS.Math.Practice.MP1
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Reason abstractly and quantitatively.CCSS.Math.Practice.MP2
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Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.CCSS.Math.Practice.MP3
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Model with mathematics.CCSS.Math.Practice.MP4
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Use appropriate tools strategically.CCSS.Math.Practice.MP5
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Attend to precision.CCSS.Math.Practice.MP6
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Look for and make use of structure.CCSS.Math.Practice.MP7
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Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.CCSS.Math.Practice.MP8
The Real Number System
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Extend the properties of exponents to rational exponents.CCSS.Math.Content.HSN-RN.A
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Explain how the definition of the meaning of rational exponents follows from extending the properties of integer exponents to those values, allowing for a notation for radicals in terms of rational exponents.CCSS.Math.Content.HSN-RN.A.1
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Rewrite expressions involving radicals and rational exponents using the properties of exponents.CCSS.Math.Content.HSN-RN.A.2
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Use properties of rational and irrational numbers.CCSS.Math.Content.HSN-RN.B
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Explain why the sum or product of two rational numbers is rational; that the sum of a rational number and an irrational number is irrational; and that the product of a nonzero rational number and an irrational number is irrational.CCSS.Math.Content.HSN-RN.B.3
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Quantities
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Reason quantitatively and use units to solve problems.CCSS.Math.Content.HSN-Q.A
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Use units as a way to understand problems and to guide the solution of multi-step problems; choose and interpret units consistently in formulas; choose and interpret the scale and the origin in graphs and data displays.CCSS.Math.Content.HSN-Q.A.1
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Define appropriate quantities for the purpose of descriptive modeling.CCSS.Math.Content.HSN-Q.A.2
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Choose a level of accuracy appropriate to limitations on measurement when reporting quantities.CCSS.Math.Content.HSN-Q.A.3
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The Complex Number System
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Perform arithmetic operations with complex numbers.CCSS.Math.Content.HSN-CN.A
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Know there is a complex number i such that i² = -1, and every complex number has the form a + bi with a and b real.CCSS.Math.Content.HSN-CN.A.1
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Use the relation i² = -1 and the commutative, associative, and distributive properties to add, subtract, and multiply complex numbers.CCSS.Math.Content.HSN-CN.A.2
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(+) Find the conjugate of a complex number; use conjugates to find moduli and quotients of complex numbers.CCSS.Math.Content.HSN-CN.A.3
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Represent complex numbers and their operations on the complex plane.CCSS.Math.Content.HSN-CN.B
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(+) Represent complex numbers on the complex plane in rectangular and polar form (including real and imaginary numbers), and explain why the rectangular and polar forms of a given complex number represent the same number.CCSS.Math.Content.HSN-CN.B.4
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(+) Represent addition, subtraction, multiplication, and conjugation of complex numbers geometrically on the complex plane; use properties of this representation for computation.CCSS.Math.Content.HSN-CN.B.5
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(+) Calculate the distance between numbers in the complex plane as the modulus of the difference, and the midpoint of a segment as the average of the numbers at its endpoints.CCSS.Math.Content.HSN-CN.B.6
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Use complex numbers in polynomial identities and equations.CCSS.Math.Content.HSN-CN.C
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Solve quadratic equations with real coefficients that have complex solutions.CCSS.Math.Content.HSN-CN.C.7
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(+) Extend polynomial identities to the complex numbers.CCSS.Math.Content.HSN-CN.C.8
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(+) Know the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra; show that it is true for quadratic polynomials.CCSS.Math.Content.HSN-CN.C.9
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Vector and Matrix Quantities
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Represent and model with vector quantities.CCSS.Math.Content.HSN-VM.A
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(+) Recognize vector quantities as having both magnitude and direction. Represent vector quantities by directed line segments, and use appropriate symbols for vectors and their magnitudes (e.g., v, |v|, ||v||, v).CCSS.Math.Content.HSN-VM.A.1
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(+) Find the components of a vector by subtracting the coordinates of an initial point from the coordinates of a terminal point.CCSS.Math.Content.HSN-VM.A.2
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(+) Solve problems involving velocity and other quantities that can be represented by vectors.CCSS.Math.Content.HSN-VM.A.3
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Perform operations on vectors.CCSS.Math.Content.HSN-VM.B
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(+) Add and subtract vectors.CCSS.Math.Content.HSN-VM.B.4
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Add vectors end-to-end, component-wise, and by the parallelogram rule. Understand that the magnitude of a sum of two vectors is typically not the sum of the magnitudes.CCSS.Math.Content.HSN-VM.B.4a
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Given two vectors in magnitude and direction form, determine the magnitude and direction of their sum.CCSS.Math.Content.HSN-VM.B.4b
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Understand vector subtraction v - w as v + (-w), where -w is the additive inverse of w, with the same magnitude as w and pointing in the opposite direction. Represent vector subtraction graphically by connecting the tips in the appropriate order, and perform vector subtraction component-wise.CCSS.Math.Content.HSN-VM.B.4c
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(+) Multiply a vector by a scalar.CCSS.Math.Content.HSN-VM.B.5
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Represent scalar multiplication graphically by scaling vectors and possibly reversing their direction; perform scalar multiplication component-wise, e.g., as c(v<sub>x</sub>, v<sub>y</sub>) = (cv<sub>x</sub>, cv<sub>y</sub>).CCSS.Math.Content.HSN-VM.B.5a
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Compute the magnitude of a scalar multiple cv using ||cv|| = |c|v. Compute the direction of cv knowing that when |c|v ? 0, the direction of cv is either along v (for c > 0) or against v (for c < 0).CCSS.Math.Content.HSN-VM.B.5b
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Perform operations on matrices and use matrices in applications.CCSS.Math.Content.HSN-VM.C
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(+) Use matrices to represent and manipulate data, e.g., to represent payoffs or incidence relationships in a network.CCSS.Math.Content.HSN-VM.C.6
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(+) Multiply matrices by scalars to produce new matrices, e.g., as when all of the payoffs in a game are doubled.CCSS.Math.Content.HSN-VM.C.7
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(+) Add, subtract, and multiply matrices of appropriate dimensions.CCSS.Math.Content.HSN-VM.C.8
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(+) Understand that, unlike multiplication of numbers, matrix multiplication for square matrices is not a commutative operation, but still satisfies the associative and distributive properties.CCSS.Math.Content.HSN-VM.C.9
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(+) Understand that the zero and identity matrices play a role in matrix addition and multiplication similar to the role of 0 and 1 in the real numbers. The determinant of a square matrix is nonzero if and only if the matrix has a multiplicative inverse.CCSS.Math.Content.HSN-VM.C.10
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(+) Multiply a vector (regarded as a matrix with one column) by a matrix of suitable dimensions to produce another vector. Work with matrices as transformations of vectors.CCSS.Math.Content.HSN-VM.C.11
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(+) Work with 2 × 2 matrices as transformations of the plane, and interpret the absolute value of the determinant in terms of area.CCSS.Math.Content.HSN-VM.C.12
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Frequently asked questions
- What grade levels do these standards cover?
- Grade 9, Grade 10, Grade 11, and Grade 12
- When were these standards adopted?
- 2010
- Where can I read the official document?
- Common Core State Standards for Mathematics
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