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Kindergarten MATHEMATICS
MATH
v. 12.05
NUMBER & OPERATIONS “We know that true learning communities are the best way to
continuously improve teaching.”
Mike Schmoker
ALGEBRA Dear Kindergarten Teacher,
Congratulations! You have just taken a first step in joining the Grade
MEASUREMENT
Level Content Expectations Learning Community. Welcome, to a growing
network of educators from across the state of Michigan. The Grade Level
Content Expectations are based on the latest research, the Michigan
Curriculum Framework’s Content Standards and Benchmarks and the
GEOMETRY Teaching, Learning, and Assessment Standards.
Kindergarten Companion Documents are intended to assist you in
DATA & PROBABILITY
incorporating the Grade Level Content Expectations into your curricular
planning. They do not represent the full scope of your classroom
instruction, but provide you with assessment targets and instructional
goals. Your own expertise, use of promising practices and creativity will
determine how you help your students achieve these expectations.
“The art of teaching is what makes the content of learning
become a reality.”
Introduction to the GLCE
This Grade Specific packet includes the following documents:
¾ Michigan Curriculum Framework (MCF)
¾ Teaching, Learning and Assessment Standards (MCF)
¾ Grade Level Content Expectations (GLCE)
¾ Content Expectations Across the Grades
¾ MCF Alignment at a Glance
Page 2
¾ Clarification Document (COMING SOON)
¾ Vocabulary List (COMING SOON)
¾ A Parent’s Guide to the GLCE
¾ Q & A (COMING SOON)
¾ MDE Mathematics Home Web Page
¾ SCoPE Units and Lesson Plans
¾ MI CLiMB
¾ MEAP Web Page
Implementation and systematic use of the GLCE are two keys in raising
student achievement! Please celebrate successes, large or small, with
your students and colleagues; and encourage them to do the same. We
invite you to make the Office of School Improvement at MDE and your
regional ISD/RESA a part of your professional learning community.
Sincerely,
Dr. Yvonne Caamal Canul
Director
Office of School Improvement
Promising Practice
“There’s no substitute for firsthand experience; manipulatives
give students ways to construct physical models of abstract
mathematical ideas.”
Marilyn Burns
