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												01-24-2016 Understand that positive and negative numbers are used together to describe quantities having opposite directions or values (e.g., temperature above/below zero, elevation above/below sea level, credits/debits, positive/negative electric charge); use positive and negative numbers to represent quantities in real-world contexts, explaining the meaning of 0 in each situation. 
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												01-24-2016 By high school, a student might use geometry to solve a design problem or use a function to describe how one quantity of interest depends on another. 
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												01-24-2016 Mathematically proficient students at various grade levels are able to identify relevant external mathematical resources, such as digital content located on a website, and use them to pose or solve problems. They are able to use technological tools to explore and deepen their understanding of concepts. 
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												01-24-2016 Create equations in two or more variables to represent relationships between quantities; graph equations on coordinate axes with labels and scales. 
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												01-24-2016 Construct a function to model a linear relationship between two quantities. Determine the rate of change and initial value of the function from a description of a relationship or from two (x, y) values, including reading these from a table or from a graph. Interpret the rate of change and initial value of a linear function in terms of the situation it models, and in terms of its graph or a table of values. 
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												11-07-2013 Determine two or more central ideas in a text and analyze their development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text. 
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												11-07-2013 Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text. 
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												11-07-2013 Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea. 
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												11-07-2013 Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text, identifying which reasons and evidence support which point(s). 
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												11-07-2013 Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.