Intel Education: Showing Evidence Tool: National Debt


	Showing Evidence Tool: National Debt Content Standards and Objectives

Targeted Content Standards and Benchmarks
Targeted National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Content Standards:
Number and Operations Standard for Grades 6-8 and 9-12
In grades 6-12 all students should:

Understand numbers, ways of representing numbers, relationships among numbers, and number systems
Develop an understanding of large numbers and recognize and appropriately use exponential, scientific, and calculator notation
Develop a deeper understanding of very large and very small numbers and of various representations of them
Judge the effects of such operations as multiplication, division, and computing powers and roots on the magnitude of quantities
Judge the reasonableness of numerical computations and their results

Problem Solving Standard for Grades 6-12
In grades 6-8 instructional programs should enable all students to:

Solve problems that arise in mathematics and in other contexts
Build new mathematical knowledge through problem solving
Apply and adapt a variety of appropriate strategies to solve problems
Monitor and reflect on the process of mathematical problem solving

Connections Standard for Grades 6-12
In grades 6-8 instructional programs should enable all students to:

Recognize and use connections among mathematical ideas
Understand how mathematical ideas interconnect and build on one another to produce a coherent whole
Recognize and apply mathematics in contexts outside of mathematics

Student Objectives
Students will be able to:

Develop a deeper understanding of a billion and a trillion and of various representations of these numbers
Grasp the difference between a billion and a trillion
Become familiar with different ways of representing large numbers
Develop a deeper understanding of the effect of computing powers of 10 on the magnitudes of quantities
Define national debt and budget deficits and understand the difference between them
Analyze current trends in national debt in terms of allocations, deficits, and surpluses

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