New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards

"The vision of the mathematics standards is focused on achieving one crucial goal:

To enable ALL of New Jersey’s children to acquire the mathematical skills, understandings, and attitudes that they will need to be successful in their careers and daily lives."

~ New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards for Mathematics

Geometry in the Plane

4.2A  Geometric Properties

·        Understand and apply concepts involving lines and angles.

·        Properties of parallel and intersecting lines.

·        Complementary and supplementary angles.

·        Understand and apply properties of polygons:

-         Circles

-         Parallelograms

-         Trapezoids

·        Use logic and reasoning to make and support conjectures about geometric objects.

4.2B  Transforming Shapes

·        Understand and apply transformations.

4.2C  Coordinate Geometry

·        Use coordinates in four quadrants to represent geometric concepts.

·        Use a coordinate grid to model and quantify transformations.

4.2E  Measuring Geometric Objects

·        Develop strategies for finding the circumference of a circle.

·        Develop and apply strategies for finding area:

-         Circles

-         Parallelograms

-         Trapezoids

·        Develop and apply strategies for finding area by combining triangles and rectangles. 

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