FL Math Curriculum Framework
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Computer Literacy Press: Math with Computers
Benchmark MA.A.1.3.1
associates verbal names, written word names, and standard numerals with integers, fractions, and decimals; numbers expressed as percents; numbers with exponents; numbers in scientific notation; radicals; absolute value; and ratios.
Component: Using the Spreadsheet
Reference: Text pp. 2-24
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: Perfect Percents
Reference: Text pp. 83-97
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: Let's Shape Up!
Reference: Text pp. 130-142
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Benchmark MA.A.1.3.2
understands the relative size of integers, fractions, and decimals; numbers expressed as percents; numbers with exponents; numbers in scientific notation; radicals; absolute value; and ratios.
Component: Using the Spreadsheet
Reference: Text pp. 2-24
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: Perfect Percents
Reference: Text pp. 83-97
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: Let's Shape Up!
Reference: Text pp. 130-142
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Benchmark MA.A.1.3.3
understands concrete and symbolic representations of rational numbers and irrational numbers in real-world situations.
Component: Crunching, Charting, and Cruising the Numbers
Reference: Text pp. 179-193
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Benchmark MA.A.1.3.4
understands that numbers can be represented in a variety of equivalent forms, including integers, fractions, decimals, percents, scientific notation, exponents, radicals, and absolute value.
Component: Using the Spreadsheet
Reference: Text pp. 2-24
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: Perfect Percents
Reference: Text pp. 83-97
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: Story Problems to Perplex Your Brain
Reference: Text pp. 101-110
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: How Do Your Rate?
Reference: Text pp. 114-128
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: Let's Shape Up!
Reference: Text pp. 130-142
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Benchmark MA.A.1.4.3
understands concrete and symbolic representations of real and complex numbers in real-world situations.
Component: Crunching, Charting, and Cruising the Numbers
Reference: Text pp. 179-193
Required: 9 Suggested: - Interested: -
Benchmark MA.A.1.4.4
understands that numbers can be represented in a variety of equivalent forms, including integers, fractions, decimals, percents, scientific notation, exponents, radicals, absolute value, and logarithms.
Component: Using the Spreadsheet
Reference: Text pp. 2-24
Required: 9 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: Perfect Percents
Reference: Text pp. 83-97
Required: 9 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: Story Problems to Perplex Your Brain
Reference: Text pp. 101-110
Required: 9 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: How Do Your Rate?
Reference: Text pp. 114-128
Required: 9 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: Let's Shape Up!
Reference: Text pp. 130-142
Required: 9 Suggested: - Interested: -
Benchmark MA.A.2.3.1
understands and uses exponential and scientific notation.
Component: Using the Spreadsheet
Reference: Text pp. 2-24
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: Let's Shape Up!
Reference: Text pp. 130-142
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: Story Problems to Shape Your Mind
Reference: Text pp. 145-155
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Benchmark MA.A.3.3.2
selects the appropriate operation to solve problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of rational numbers, ratios, proportions, and percents, including the appropriate application of the algebraic order of operations.
Component: The Order of Operations and the Sum Function
Reference: Text pp. 46-62
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: Story Problems to Perplex Your Brain
Reference: Text pp. 101-110
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: How Do Your Rate?
Reference: Text pp. 114-128
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: Story Problems for Review and Practice
Reference: Text pp. 197-216
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Benchmark MA.A.3.4.1
understands and explains the effects of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division on real numbers, including square roots, exponents, and appropriate inverse relationships.
Component: Let's Shape Up!
Reference: Text pp. 130-142
Required: 9 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: Story Problems to Shape Your Mind
Reference: Text pp. 145-155
Required: 9 Suggested: - Interested: -
Benchmark MA.A.3.4.3
adds, subtracts, multiplies, and divides real numbers, including square roots and exponents, using appropriate methods of computing, such as mental mathematics, paper and pencil, and calculator.
Component: Let's Shape Up!
Reference: Text pp. 130-142
Required: 9 Suggested: - Interested: -
Benchmark MA.A.4.3.1
uses estimation strategies to predict results and to check the reasonableness of results.
Component: Using the Spreadsheet
Reference: Text pp. 2-24
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: The Order of Operations and the Sum Function
Reference: Text pp. 46-62
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: Perfect Percents
Reference: Text pp. 83-97
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: Story Problems to Perplex Your Brain
Reference: Text pp. 101-110
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: How Do Your Rate?
Reference: Text pp. 114-128
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Benchmark MA.A.4.4.1
uses estimation strategies in complex situations to predict results and to check the reasonableness of results.
Component: Using the Spreadsheet
Reference: Text pp. 2-24
Required: 9 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: The Order of Operations and the Sum Function
Reference: Text pp. 46-62
Required: 9 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: Perfect Percents
Reference: Text pp. 83-97
Required: 9 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: Story Problems to Perplex Your Brain
Reference: Text pp. 101-110
Required: 9 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: How Do Your Rate?
Reference: Text pp. 114-128
Required: 9 Suggested: - Interested: -
B. Measurement

1. The student measures quantities in the real world an uses the measures to solve problems.
Component: Using the Spreadsheet
Reference: Text pp. 2-24
Required: 6-9 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: Fantastic Formulas
Reference: Text pp. 27-43
Required: 6-9 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: Story Problems to Perplex Your Brain
Reference: Text pp. 101-110
Required: 6-9 Suggested: - Interested: -
Benchmark MA.B.1.3.1
uses concrete and graphic models to derive formulas for finding perimeter, area, surface area, circumference, and volume of two- and three-dimensional shapes, including rectangular solids and cylinders.
Component: Let's Shape Up!
Reference: Text pp. 130-142
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: Story Problems to Shape Your Mind
Reference: Text pp. 145-155
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: Story Problems for Review and Practice
Reference: Text pp. 197-216
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Benchmark MA.B.1.3.2
uses concrete and graphic models to derive formulas for finding rates, distance, time, and angle measures.
Component: Fantastic Formulas
Reference: Text pp. 27-43
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: Story Problems to Perplex Your Brain
Reference: Text pp. 101-110
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: How Do Your Rate?
Reference: Text pp. 114-128
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Benchmark MA.B.1.3.4
constructs, interprets, and uses scale drawings such as those based on number lines and maps to solve real-world problems.
Component: Story Problems to Shape Your Mind
Reference: Text pp. 145-155
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Benchmark MA.B.1.4.1
uses concrete and graphic models to derive formulas for finding perimeter, area, surface area, circumference, and volume of two- and three-dimensional shapes, including rectangular solids, cylinders, cones, and pyramids.
Component: Let's Shape Up!
Reference: Text pp. 130-142
Required: 9 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: Story Problems to Shape Your Mind
Reference: Text pp. 145-155
Required: 9 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: Story Problems for Review and Practice
Reference: Text pp. 197-216
Required: 9 Suggested: - Interested: -
Benchmark MA.B.1.4.2
uses concrete and graphic models to derive formulas for finding rate, distance, time, angle measures, and arc lengths.
Component: Fantastic Formulas
Reference: Text pp. 27-43
Required: 9 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: Story Problems to Perplex Your Brain
Reference: Text pp. 101-110
Required: 9 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: How Do Your Rate?
Reference: Text pp. 114-128
Required: 9 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: Let's Shape Up!
Reference: Text pp. 130-142
Required: 9 Suggested: - Interested: -
Benchmark MA.B.1.4.3
relates the concepts of measurement to similarity and proportionality in real-world situations.
Component: How Do Your Rate?
Reference: Text pp. 114-128
Required: 9 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: Story Problems for Review and Practice
Reference: Text pp. 197-216
Required: 9 Suggested: - Interested: -
B. Measurement

2. The student compares, contrasts, and converts within systems of measurement (both standard/nonstandard and metric/customary).
Component: Using the Spreadsheet
Reference: Text pp. 2-24
Required: 6-9 Suggested: - Interested: -
Benchmark MA.B.2.3.1
uses direct (measured) and indirect (not measured) measures to compare a given characteristic in either metric or customary units.
Component: Using the Spreadsheet
Reference: Text pp. 2-24
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Benchmark MA.B.2.3.2
solves problems involving units of measure and converts answers to a larger or smaller unit within either the metric or customary system.
Component: Using the Spreadsheet
Reference: Text pp. 2-24
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: The Order of Operations and the Sum Function
Reference: Text pp. 46-62
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Benchmark MA.B.2.4.1
selects and uses direct (measured) and indirect (not measured) methods of measurement as appropriate.
Component: Using the Spreadsheet
Reference: Text pp. 2-24
Required: 9 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: Let's Shape Up!
Reference: Text pp. 130-142
Required: 9 Suggested: - Interested: -
Benchmark MA.B.2.4.2
solves real-world problems involving rated measures (miles per hour, feet per second).
Component: Perfect Percents
Reference: Text pp. 83-97
Required: 9 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: How Do Your Rate?
Reference: Text pp. 114-128
Required: 9 Suggested: - Interested: -
B. Measurement

3. The student estimates measurements in real-world problem situations.
Component: Using the Spreadsheet
Reference: Text pp. 2-24
Required: 6-9 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: How Do Your Rate?
Reference: Text pp. 114-128
Required: 6-9 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: Let's Shape Up!
Reference: Text pp. 130-142
Required: 6-9 Suggested: - Interested: -
Benchmark MA.B.3.3.1
solves real-world and mathematical problems involving estimates of measurements including length, time, weight/mass, temperature, money, perimeter, area, and volume in either customary or metric units.
Component: Using the Spreadsheet
Reference: Text pp. 2-24
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: How Do Your Rate?
Reference: Text pp. 114-128
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: Let's Shape Up!
Reference: Text pp. 130-142
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Benchmark MA.B.3.4.1
solves real-world and mathematical problems involving estimates of measurements, including length, time, weight/mass, temperature, money, perimeter, area, and volume and estimates the effects of measurement errors on calculations.
Component: Using the Spreadsheet
Reference: Text pp. 2-24
Required: 9 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: How Do Your Rate?
Reference: Text pp. 114-128
Required: 9 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: Let's Shape Up!
Reference: Text pp. 130-142
Required: 9 Suggested: - Interested: -
Benchmark MA.B.4.3.1
selects appropriate units of measurement and determines and applies significant digits in a real-world context. (Significant digits should relate to both instrument precision and to the least precise unit of measurement.)
Component: Using the Spreadsheet
Reference: Text pp. 2-24
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Benchmark MA.B.4.3.2
selects and uses appropriate instruments, technology, and techniques to measure quantities in order to achieve specified degrees of accuracy in a problem situation.
Component: How Do Your Rate?
Reference: Text pp. 114-128
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: Let's Shape Up!
Reference: Text pp. 130-142
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Benchmark MA.B.4.4.2
selects and uses appropriate instruments, technology, and techniques to measure quantities in order to achieve specified degrees of accuracy in a problem situation.
Component: How Do Your Rate?
Reference: Text pp. 114-128
Required: 9 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: Let's Shape Up!
Reference: Text pp. 130-142
Required: 9 Suggested: - Interested: -
Benchmark MA.C.1.3.1
understands the basic properties of, and relationships pertaining to, regular and irregular geometric shapes in two and three dimensions.
Component: Let's Shape Up!
Reference: Text pp. 130-142
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: Story Problems to Shape Your Mind
Reference: Text pp. 145-155
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Benchmark MA.C.2.3.1
understands the geometric concepts of symmetry, reflections, congruency, similarity, perpendicularity, parallelism, and transformations, including flips, slides, turns, and enlargements.
Component: Story Problems to Shape Your Mind
Reference: Text pp. 145-155
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Benchmark MA.C.2.4.1
understands geometric concepts such as perpendicularity, parallelism, tangency, congruency, similarity, reflections, symmetry, and transformations including flips, slides, turns, enlargements, rotations, and fractals.
Component: Story Problems to Shape Your Mind
Reference: Text pp. 145-155
Required: 9 Suggested: - Interested: -
Benchmark MA.C.3.3.1
represents and applies geometric properties and relationships to solve real-world and mathematical problems.
Component: Fantastic Formulas
Reference: Text pp. 27-43
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: Story Problems to Perplex Your Brain
Reference: Text pp. 101-110
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: How Do Your Rate?
Reference: Text pp. 114-128
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: Let's Shape Up!
Reference: Text pp. 130-142
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: Story Problems to Shape Your Mind
Reference: Text pp. 145-155
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: Story Problems for Review and Practice
Reference: Text pp. 197-216
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Benchmark MA.C.3.4.1
represents and applies geometric properties and relationships to solve real-world and mathematical problems including ratio, proportion, and properties of right triangle trigonometry.
Component: How Do Your Rate?
Reference: Text pp. 114-128
Required: 9 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: Let's Shape Up!
Reference: Text pp. 130-142
Required: 9 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: Story Problems for Review and Practice
Reference: Text pp. 197-216
Required: 9 Suggested: - Interested: -
D. Algebraic Thinking

1. The student describes, analyzes, and generalizes a wide variety of patterns, relations, and functions.
Component: Story Problems to Perplex Your Brain
Reference: Text pp. 101-110
Required: 6-9 Suggested: - Interested: -
Benchmark MA.D.1.3.1
describes a wide variety of patterns, relationships, and functions through models, such as manipulatives, tables, graphs, expressions, equations, and inequalities.
Component: Using the Spreadsheet
Reference: Text pp. 2-24
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: Fantastic Formulas
Reference: Text pp. 27-43
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: Story Problems to Perplex Your Brain
Reference: Text pp. 101-110
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: Charting Pies and Discovering the Magical Time Value of Money
Reference: Test pp. 158-174
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Benchmark MA.D.1.3.2
creates and interprets tables, graphs, equations, and verbal descriptions to explain cause-and-effect relationships.
Component: Charting Pies and Discovering the Magical Time Value of Money
Reference: Test pp. 158-174
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: Crunching, Charting, and Cruising the Numbers
Reference: Text pp. 179-193
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: Story Problems for Review and Practice
Reference: Text pp. 197-216
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Benchmark MA.D.1.4.1
describes, analyzes, and generalizes relationships, patterns, and functions using words, symbols, variables, tables, and graphs.
Component: Using the Spreadsheet
Reference: Text pp. 2-24
Required: 9 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: Fantastic Formulas
Reference: Text pp. 27-43
Required: 9 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: Story Problems to Perplex Your Brain
Reference: Text pp. 101-110
Required: 9 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: Charting Pies and Discovering the Magical Time Value of Money
Reference: Test pp. 158-174
Required: 9 Suggested: - Interested: -
D. Algebraic Thinking

2. The student uses expressions, equations, inequalities, graphs, and formulas to represent and interpret situations.
Component: Fantastic Formulas
Reference: Text pp. 27-43
Required: 6-9 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: Story Problems to Perplex Your Brain
Reference: Text pp. 101-110
Required: 6-9 Suggested: - Interested: -
Benchmark MA.D.2.3.1
represents and solves real-world problems graphically, with algebraic expressions, equations, and inequalities.
Component: The Order of Operations and the Sum Function
Reference: Text pp. 46-62
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: Story Problems to Perplex Your Brain
Reference: Text pp. 101-110
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: Let's Shape Up!
Reference: Text pp. 130-142
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: Story Problems to Shape Your Mind
Reference: Text pp. 145-155
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: Story Problems for Review and Practice
Reference: Text pp. 197-216
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Benchmark MA.D.2.3.2
uses algebraic problem-solving strategies to solve real-world problems involving linear equations and inequalities.
Component: Story Problems to Perplex Your Brain
Reference: Text pp. 101-110
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: Story Problems for Review and Practice
Reference: Text pp. 197-216
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Benchmark MA.D.2.4.1
represents real-world problem situations using finite graphs, matrices, sequences, series, and recursive relations.
Component: Using the Spreadsheet
Reference: Text pp. 2-24
Required: 9 Suggested: - Interested: -
Benchmark MA.E.1.3.1
collects, organizes, and displays data in a variety of forms, including tables, line graphs, charts, and bar graphs, to determine how different ways of presenting data can lead to different interpretations.
Component: Using the Spreadsheet
Reference: Text pp. 2-24
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: Statistics via Spreadsheet
Reference: Text pp. 66-81
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: Story Problems to Perplex Your Brain
Reference: Text pp. 101-110
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: How Do Your Rate?
Reference: Text pp. 114-128
Required: 6-8 Suggested: - Interested: -
Component: Story Problems to Shape Your Mind
Reference: