Common Core Essential Elements Mathematics

How to use Appendix A of the Common Core State 
Standards for Mathematics 
The CCSSM Standards for Mathematical Content are organized by grade level in 
grades K-8. A similar organization was not possible for the high school content 
standards, since schools and curricula do not all introduce high school content 
in the same order. The high school content standards are therefore organized by 
conceptual categories, leaving open the question of how the required content 
is to be distributed among high school courses. There are two commonly-used 
approaches: traditional/non-integrated U.S. curriculum in which content is 
typically divided into courses named Algebra I, Geometry, and Algebra II; and 
the integrated approach, more commonly used in other countries, in which the 
strands of mathematics are interwoven in courses which might simply be named 
Mathematics I, Mathematics II, and Mathematics III. The CCSSM should be fully 
acquired through either course sequences.
CCSSM Appendix A, Designing High School Mathematics Courses Based on the 
Common Core State Standards
, provides four suggested pathways as to how this 
distribution might be accomplished (http://corestandards.org/assets/CCSSI_
Mathematics_Appendix_A.pdf). In considering this appendix, it is important to 
keep in mind comments from the CCSSM authors:
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