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Index
 
Superintendent Letter
Mission Statement
Foreword
Introduction
Vocabulary
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Cobb County School District
Mathematics (Updated July 2003)
Mathematics - Discrete Mathematics
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Goals and Descriptions

Priority Level:

High = ллл     Mid = лл      Low = л


Algebraic Concepts | Data Analysis and Probability | Number and Operations
 

Number and Operations

PS1: NUMBER SENSE
The learner will be able to reason and draw conclusions from numerical information.
  
ллл M.DISC.1.1 Number Forms: Apply/Notation
The learner will be able to apply mathematical notations appropriately.
  
ллл M.DISC.1.2 Proofs: Counterexamples
The learner will be able to devise counterexamples.
  
ллл M.DISC.1.3 Argument: Validity
The learner will be able to follow a valid argument.
  
ллл M.DISC.1.4 Arguments: Evaluate/Validity
The learner will be able to evaluate the validity of an argument.
  
ллл M.DISC.1.5 Proofs: Create
The learner will be able to create elementary, valid arguments, including direct and indirect proofs and proofs by mathematical induction.
  
ллл M.DISC.1.6 Social Choice: Use/Fair Division
The learner will be able to obtain problem solutions through the use of fair-division algorithms.
  
ллл M.DISC.1.7 Set Theory: Explain/Recognize
The learner will be able to explain sets with suitable notation, including set-builder notation, and recognize finite and infinite sets.
  
ллл M.DISC.1.8 Set Theory: Identify Relations
The learner will be able to recognize basic relations among sets and/or appropriately use words like subset, equality, proper subset, superset, universe, and/or empty set, through the use of Venn Diagrams.
  
ллл M.DISC.1.9 Sets: Operations
The learner will be able to use operation on sets such as intersection, union, complement, difference, and/or symmetric difference.
  
ллл M.DISC.1.10 Set Theory
The learner will be able to define, identify, represent, and/or use commutative laws, associative laws, distributive laws, and/or DeMorgan's Laws and create basic proofs with the aid of Venn Diagrams.
  
ллл M.DISC.1.11 Set Theory: Determine
The learner will be able to find power sets and/or Cartesian products of sets.
  

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M.DISC.1.12 Mathematical Concepts: Form
The learner will be able to develop mathematical definitions and/or express generalizations derived through explorations.
  

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M.DISC.1.13 Mathematical Concepts: Questions
The learner will be able to ask clarifying and extending questions regarding mathematical concepts.
  

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M.DISC.1.14 Analyzing Problems: Conjectures
The learner will be able to create and/or test conjectures.
  

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M.DISC.1.15 Mathematical Concepts: Relationships
The learner will be able to ponder and/or clarify mathematical concepts and relationships.
  

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M.DISC.1.16 Mathematical Information: Read
The learner will be able to read mathematical presentations with understanding.
  

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M.DISC.1.17 Math Concepts: Illustrate/Orally
The learner will be able to illustrate mathematical concepts orally.
  

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M.DISC.1.18 Math Concepts: Illustrate/Written
The learner will be able to illustrate mathematical concepts in written form.
  

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M.DISC.1.19 Mathematical Concepts: Notation
The learner will be able to recognize the economy, power, and elegance of mathematical notation as well as its part in the formulation of mathematical ideas.
  

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M.DISC.1.20 Mathematical Connections: Identify
The learner will be able to identify connections among mathematical concepts.
  

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M.DISC.1.21 Mathematical Connections: Apply
The learner will be able to apply connections among mathematical concepts.
  

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M.DISC.1.22 Mathematical Connections: Disciplines
The learner will be able to recognize connections between mathematics and other disciplines.
  

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M.DISC.1.23 Mathematical Connections: Disciplines 
The learner will be able to apply connections between mathematics and other disciplines.
  

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M.DISC.1.24 Mathematical Concepts: Decisions
The learner will be able to figure out election results through the application of various procedures including preference schedules for plurality, Borda, Condorcet, or other ranking methods.
  

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M.DISC.1.25 Mathematical Concepts
The learner will be able to recognize paradoxes and apply weighted voting and power indices in addition to Arrow's fairness criteria to find out what is meant by Arrow's Impossibility Theorem.
  

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M.DISC.1.26 Mathematical Concepts
The learner will be able to recognize methods of apportionment, and the paradoxes that may exist within them, and/or gain familiarity with the Balinski and Young Impossibility Theorem.
  
PS2: OPERATIONS AND THEIR RELATIONSHIPS
The learner will be able to reason and draw conclusions from numerical information.
  
ллл M.DISC.2.1 Real Numbers: Examine
The learner will be able to inspect the real number system and define its various subsets (positive integers P, natural numbers N, integers Z, rational numbers Q, irrational numbers, and real numbers R, apply interval notation and the division algorithm, as well as divisibility properties.
  
ллл M.DISC.2.2 Logic: Concepts
The learner will be able to define, identify, and/or represent a proposition, its converse, and/or its contrapositive.
  
ллл M.DISC.2.3 Proofs: Illustrate/Counterexamples
The learner will be able to illustrate the applications of basic counterexamples.
  
ллл M.DISC.2.4 Proofs: Construct
The learner will be able to create basic proofs through the use of elementary examples taken from arithmetic.
  
ллл M.DISC.2.5 Logic: Truth Tables/Complete
The learner will be able to complete truth tables for basic logical connectives and write truth values of basic propositions.
  
ллл M.DISC.2.6 Logic: Tautology/Contradict
The learner will be able to state and/or represent the definitions of tautology and/or contradiction.
  
ллл M.DISC.2.7 Logic: Negation
The learner will be able to negate logical statements.
  
ллл M.DISC.2.8 Logic: Circuits
The learner will be able to draw logic circuits with AND, OR, and NOT gates.
  

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M.DISC.2.9 Odd/Even: Construct/Basic/Proofs
The learner will be able to construct basic proofs about even and odd numbers.
  

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M.DISC.2.10 Number Forms: Representing
The learner will be able to write integers (presented in base ten) in any other base, emphasizing base two, and conversely.
  

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M.DISC.2.11 Logic: Recognize/Hypothesis
The learner will be able to recognize the hypothesis and the conclusion of a variety of English constructed sentences.
  

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M.DISC.2.12 Logic: Translate
The learner will be able to translate back and forth between English sentences and logical expressions.
  

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M.DISC.2.13 Logic: NAND/NOR
The learner will be able to recognize and/or use NAND and NOR.
  

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M.DISC.2.14 Multiples: Determine/LCM
The learner will be able to find least common multiples.
  

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M.DISC.2.15 Prime Factorization: Find
The learner will be able to find the prime factorization of a number.
  

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M.DISC.2.16 Factors: Greatest Common
The learner will be able to find greatest common factors.
  
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Algebraic Concepts

PS3: PATTERNS, RELATIONS, AND FUNCTIONS
The learner will be able to apply and analyze functions, relations, and patterns in abstract and real world situations.
  
ллл M.DISC.3.1 Algorithms: Apply
The learner will be able to use algorithms to determine minimal spanning trees and/or shortest paths in weighted graphs.
  
ллл M.DISC.3.2 Networks: Study/Graph/Models
The learner will be able to study networks such as systems of roads, pipelines, and airline routes through the use of graphs as models.
  
ллл M.DISC.3.3 Problem Solving: Various Concepts
The learner will be able to obtain problem solutions involving the concepts of connectedness, completeness, bipartiteness, planarity, and/or graph coloring.
  
ллл M.DISC.3.4 Tree: Minimal Spanning
The learner will be able to determine the minimal spanning tree for a graph.
  
ллл M.DISC.3.5 Matrices: Create/Represent
The learner will be able to create matrices to represent graphs.
  
ллл M.DISC.3.6 Matrices: Recognize
The learner will be able to identify the representation of a graph in matrix form.
  
ллл M.DISC.3.7 Matrices: Study
The learner will be able to apply the utility of an adjacency matrix to analyze connectivity properties of graphs and/or diagrams.
  
ллл M.DISC.3.8 Problem Solving: Population
The learner will be able to obtain solutions to population growth and/or control problems through the use of the Leslie Model.
  
ллл M.DISC.3.9 Set Theory: Determine/Closure
The learner will be able to determine if a set is closed with respect to a given operation.
  
ллл M.DISC.3.10 Set Theory: Operations
The learner will be able to become familiar with several operations on a variety of sets, including the arithmetic operations on the set and subset of real numbers, set operations on P(S), logical operations on propositions, and 2X2 matrix operations.
  
ллл M.DISC.3.11 Set Theory: Properties
The learner will be able to find properties of an operation that is defined on a given set.
  
ллл M.DISC.3.12 Set Theory: Operations
The learner will be able to decide which of the properties (commutative, associative, existence on identify, existence of inverses) hold for particular sets and operations.
  
ллл M.DISC.3.13 Algebraic Concepts: Apply/Boolean
The learner will be able to present logic circuits in an algebraic structure through the application of Boolean axioms.
  
ллл M.DISC.3.14 Algebraic Concepts: Use/Boolean
The learner will be able to use Boolean Algebra to prove equivalence relations between logic circuits.
  

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M.DISC.3.15 Graph Theory: Eulerian/Hamiltonian
The learner will be able to recognize properties of graphs as Eulerian or Hamiltonian circuits and/or paths.
  

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M.DISC.3.16 Tree: Definition
The learner will be able to comprehend many different definitions of a tree.
  

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M.DISC.3.17 Tree: Analysis
The learner will be able to obtain solutions to probability problems through the application of tree analysis and Markov's algorithm.
  

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M.DISC.3.18 Mathematical Modeling: Apply
The learner will be able to apply the Leontlef input/output model of a given economy.
  

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M.DISC.3.19 Function/Relation: Define
The learner will be able to make definitions of functions and/or relations, and/or determine, identify, and represent the concepts of domain, codomain, image, range, into, onto, and/or one-to-one.
  

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M.DISC.3.20 Relations: Properties
The learner will be able to define, identify, and/or represent properties of relations including reflexive, transitive, symmetric, and/or antisymmetric.
  

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M.DISC.3.21 Equivalence: Identify/Relations
The learner will be able to recognize equivalence relations.
  

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M.DISC.3.22 Order: Identify
The learner will be able to recognize order relations.
  

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M.DISC.3.23 Functions: Recursive
The learner will be able to identify recursively defined functions emphasizing recurrence relations and recursion.
  

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M.DISC.3.24 Operations: Binary
The learner will be able to state the definition of and identify binary operations.
  

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M.DISC.3.25 Matrices: Identify/Apply
The learner will be able to recognize and/or apply matrix properties.
  

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M.DISC.3.26 Matrices: Compute
The learner will be able to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, and scalar multiplication with matrices.
  

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M.DISC.3.27 Linear System of Equations:
The learner will be able to obtain solutions (if they exist) to a linear system of equations.
  

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M.DISC.3.28 Compositions: Form
The learner will be able to form the composition of functions.
  

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M.DISC.3.29 Inverses: Find/Relation/Fun
The learner will be able to find the inverse of relations, particularly of functions.
  
PS4: ALGEBRAIC MODELS IN PROBLEM SOLVING
The learner will be able to use mathematical models to represent and understand quantitative relationships and change in real world situations.
  

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M.DISC.4.1 Problem Solving
The learner will be able to solve problems that involve choosing suitable methods and tools, approximating, and evaluating the reasonableness of solutions.
  

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M.DISC.4.2 Problem Solving: Technology
The learner will be able to solve problems that relate concepts to other concepts and to practical applications using appropriate technology.
  
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Data Analysis and Probability

PS5: DATA ANALYSIS
The learner will be able to analyze real world data collected using appropriate measures of central tendency and dispersion and select and use appropriate statistical methods to analyze real world data.
  
ллл M.DISC.5.1 Graphing: Theory Application
The learner will be able to use graph theory methods in conjunction with activity analysis.
  

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M.DISC.5.2 Graphs: Examine/Structure
The learner will be able to examine the structure of a graph and create and apply different displays.
  
PS6: PROBABILITY
The learner will be able to understand and apply concepts of probability.
  
ллл M.DISC.6.1 Permutations/Combinations: Apply
The learner will be able to apply simple permutation and combination formulas.
  
ллл M.DISC.6.2 Combinations: Identify/Prove
The learner will be able to recognize and/or prove elementary combinatorial identities through the application of combinatorial reasoning.
  
ллл M.DISC.6.3 Binomial Theorem: Apply/Relate
The learner will be able to use the Binomial Theorem and/or associate it with Pascal's Triangle.
  
ллл M.DISC.6.4 Discrete Probability
The learner will be able to obtain solutions to discrete probability problems through the application of addition and multiplication rules, independent events, conditional probabilities, and/or expected value.
  
ллл M.DISC.6.5 Mathematical Concepts
The learner will be able to perform iterations with first order recurrence relations, and/or determine the closed form of a first order linear recurrence relation.
  

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M.DISC.6.6 Discrete Mathematics: Pigeon-hole
The learner will be able to use the pigeon-hole principle.
  

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M.DISC.6.7 Discrete Mathematics
The learner will be able to state and use the inclusion-exclusion principle.
  

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M.DISC.6.8 Mathematical Concepts: Iteration
The learner will be able to use the process of iteration in many different scenarios.
  

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M.DISC.6.9 Algorithms: Analyze
The learner will be able to analyze search and/or sort type algorithms.
  

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M.DISC.6.10 Counting Methods: Counting
The learner will be able to use the fundamental counting principle.
  

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M.DISC.6.11 Mathematical Concepts: Solve
The learner will be able to obtain solutions to second order linear recurrence relations (optional).
  
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