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Your preK, kindergarten, first-, or second-grade team effectively backward plans the year by grouping essential mathematics standards into units to create the guaranteed and viable mathematics curriculum students must learn. The order in which you teach the mathematics units provides the framework for your grade-level mathematics story. Within each unit, your daily lessons create the beginning, middle, and end for that part of the story.

Thus, evidence of your team’s guaranteed and viable curriculum includes (1) a yearlong pacing plan of standards and benchmarks throughout the year of spiraled standards (proficiency map or pacing guide), (2) unit plans, and (3) daily lessons. The graphic in figure 1.1 illustrates these three areas of team planning for a mathematics guaranteed and viable curriculum.

Figure 1.1: Mathematics guaranteed and viable curriculum plan.

Together, the mathematics units of study tell the story of the primary grade-level standards teachers expect students to learn throughout the year and from one year to the next.

As figure 1.1 (page 9) shows, your grade-level team’s guaranteed and viable curriculum is first defined by a district yearlong pacing guide or proficiency map (showing a time line for student proficiency with each mathematics standard). Your team then determines a time frame appropriate to each mathematics unit, typically two to four weeks in duration in the primary grades. This process eliminates the potential risk of running out of time and skipping units or essential standards that fall at the end of the year.

If your collaborative team does not have a yearlong plan with standards in clearly defined units, see appendix A (page 137), “Create a Proficiency Map,” for additional support. Helping each teacher on your team become comfortable with the progression of mathematics units throughout the school year will support your students’ understanding of the mathematics story arc for various standards.