Louisiana Administrative Code

A. Know relative sizes of measurement units within one system of units, including: ft, in; km, m, cm; kg, g; lb, oz.; l, ml; hr, min, sec. Within a single system of measurement, express measurements in a larger unit in terms of a smaller unit. (Conversions are limited to one-step…

A. Explain why a fraction a/b is equivalent to a fraction ( n x a )/( n x b ) by using visual fraction models, with attention to how the number and size of the parts differ even though the two fractions themselves are the same size. Use this principle to recognize and generate eq…

A. Count to 120, starting at any number less than 120. In this range, read and write numerals and represent a number of objects with a written numeral. B. Understand that the two digits of a two-digit number represent amounts of tens and ones. Understand the following as special …

A. In accordance with Act 634 of the 2018 Regular Legislative Session, a teaching authorization (TA) shall be required for individuals seeking employment as an administrator, teacher, or substitute teacher in any school, including a public or nonpublic school that does not requir…

A. Order three objects by length; compare the lengths of two objects indirectly by using a third object. B. Express the length of an object as a whole number of length units, by laying multiple copies of a shorter object (the length unit) end to end; understand that the length me…

A. Measure the length of an object by selecting and using appropriate tools such as rulers, yardsticks, meter sticks, and measuring tapes. B. Measure the length of an object twice, using length units of different lengths for the two measurements; describe how the two measurements…

A. Gain understanding of place value. 1. Understand that the numbers 11-19 are composed of 10 ones and 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, or 9 ones. 2. Compose and decompose numbers 11 to 19 using place value (e.g., by using objects or drawings). 3. Record each composition or decomposition …

A. Describe measurable attributes of objects, such as length or weight. Describe several measurable attributes of a single object B. Directly compare two objects with a measurable attribute in common to see which object has "more of"/"less of" the attribute, and describe the diff…

A. Describe objects in the environment using names of shapes, and describe the relative positions of these objects using terms such as above, below, beside, in front of, behind, and next to. B. Correctly name shapes regardless of their orientations or overall size. C. Identify sh…

A. Apply properties of operations as strategies to add, subtract, factor, and expand linear expressions with rational coefficients to include multiple grouping symbols (e.g., parentheses, brackets, and braces). B. Understand that rewriting an expression in different forms in a pr…

A. Interpret expressions that represent a quantity in terms of its context. 1. Interpret parts of an expression, such as terms, factors, and coefficients. 2. Interpret complicated expressions by viewing one or more of their parts as a single entity. Example: Interpret P ( 1+r ) n…

A. Use statistics appropriate to the shape of the data distribution to compare center (median, mean) and spread (interquartile range, standard deviation) of two or more different data sets. B. Interpret differences in shape, center, and spread in the context of the data sets, acc…

A. For a function that models a relationship between two quantities, interpret key features of graphs and tables in terms of the quantities, and sketch graphs showing key features given a verbal description of the relationship. (Key features include: intercepts; intervals where t…

A. Explain why the sum or product of two rational numbers is rational; that the sum of a rational number and an irrational number is irrational; and that the product of a nonzero rational number and an irrational number is irrational. B. Use units as a way to understand problems …

A. Apply and extend previous understandings of addition and subtraction to add and subtract rational numbers; represent addition and subtraction on a horizontal or vertical number line diagram. 1. Describe situations in which opposite quantities combine to make 0. Example: A hydr…

A. A Louisiana teaching authorization shall be suspended and revoked if the individual holding the teaching authorization has been convicted of any felony offense whatsoever. If the Louisiana teaching authorization of an individual is expired, and the individual has been convicte…

A. Use addition and subtraction within 20 to solve word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions (e.g., by using objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to …

A. Recognize and draw shapes having specified attributes, such as a given number of angles or a given number of equal faces. Identify triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and cubes. B. Partition a rectangle into rows and columns of same-size squares, and count to find …

A. Compute unit rates associated with ratios of fractions, including ratios of lengths, areas, and other quantities measured in like or different units. Example: If a person walks 1/2 mile in each 1/4 hour, compute the unit rate as the complex fraction (1/2)/(1/4) miles per hour,…

A. Know that numbers that are not rational are called irrational. Understand informally that every number has a decimal expansion; for rational numbers, show that the decimal expansion repeats eventually. Convert a decimal expansion that repeats eventually into a rational number …

A. Know and apply the properties of integer exponents to generate equivalent numerical expressions. Example: 3 2 x 3 -5 =3 -3 =1/3 3 =1/27 B. Use square root and cube root symbols to represent solutions to equations of the form x 2 =p and x 3 =p, where p is a positive rational nu…

A. Find the area of right triangles, other triangles, special quadrilaterals, and polygons by composing into rectangles or decomposing into triangles and other shapes; apply these techniques in the context of solving real-world and mathematical problems. B. Find the volume of a r…

A. Recognize a statistical question as one that anticipates variability in the data related to the question and accounts for it in the answers. Example: "How old am I?" is not a statistical question, but "How old are the students in my school?" is a statistical question because o…

A. Understand that a function is a rule that assigns to each input exactly one output. The graph of a function is the set of ordered pairs consisting of an input and the corresponding output. (Function notation is not required in this grade level.) B. Compare properties of two fu…

A. Know precise definitions of angle, circle, perpendicular line, parallel line, and line segment, based on the undefined notions of point, line, distance along a line, and distance around a circular arc. B. Represent transformations in the plane using, e.g., transparencies, trac…

A. Understand the concept of a ratio and use ratio language to describe a ratio relationship between two quantities. Example: "The ratio of wings to beaks in the bird house at the zoo was 2:1, because for every 2 wings there was 1 beak." "For every vote candidate A received, cand…

A. Write and evaluate numerical expressions involving whole-number exponents. B. Write, read, and evaluate expressions in which letters stand for numbers. 1. Write expressions that record operations with numbers and with letters standing for numbers. Example: Express the calculat…

A. Verify experimentally the properties of rotations, reflections, and translations. 1. Lines are taken to lines, and line segments to line segments of the same length. 2. Angles are taken to angles of the same measure. 3. Parallel lines are taken to parallel lines. B. Explain th…

A. Understand that statistics can be used to gain information about a population by examining a sample of the population; generalizations about a population from a sample are valid only if the sample is representative of that population. Understand that random sampling tends to p…

A. Use parentheses or brackets in numerical expressions, and evaluate expressions with these symbols. B. Write simple expressions that record calculations with whole numbers, fractions, and decimals, and interpret numerical expressions without evaluating them. Example: Express th…

A. Understand that a function from one set (called the domain) to another set (called the range) assigns to each element of the domain exactly one element of the range. If f is a function and x is an element of its domain, then f ( x ) denotes the output of f corresponding to the…

A. Recognize that in a multi-digit number, a digit in one place represents 10 times as much as it represents in the place to its right and 1/10 of what it represents in the place to its left. B. Explain and apply patterns in the number of zeros of the product when multiplying a n…

A. Describe events as subsets of a sample space (the set of outcomes) using characteristics (or categories) of the outcomes, or as unions, intersections, or complements of other events ("or," "and," "not"). B. Understand that two events A and B are independent if the probability …

A. Convert among different-sized standard measurement units within a given measurement system, and use these conversions in solving multi-step, real-world problems (e.g., convert 5 cm to 0.05 m; 9 ft to 108 in). B. Make a line plot to display a data set of measurements in fractio…

A. Solve problems involving scale drawings of geometric figures, such as computing actual lengths and areas from a scale drawing and reproducing a scale drawing at a different scale. B. Draw (freehand, with ruler and protractor, or with technology) geometric shapes with given con…

A. Recognize that in a multi-digit whole number less than or equal to 1,000,000, a digit in one place represents 10 times what it represents in the place to its right. Examples: Recognize that 700 / 70=10; in the number 7,246, the 2 represents 200, but in the number 7,426 the 2 r…

A. Count to 100 by ones and by tens. B. Count forward beginning from a given number within the known sequence (instead of having to begin at 1). C. Write numbers from 0 to 20. Represent a number of objects with a written numeral 0-20 (with 0 representing a count of no objects). D…

A. Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings, sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations. B. Solve addition and subtraction word problems, and add and subtract within 10 (e.g., by using objec…

A. Draw points, lines, line segments, rays, angles (right, acute, obtuse), and perpendicular and parallel lines. Identify these in two-dimensional figures. B. Classify two-dimensional figures based on the presence or absence of parallel or perpendicular lines, or the presence or …

A. A Louisiana teaching authorization shall be suspended and revoked if the individual holding the teaching authorization has been found by the LDE to have participated in cheating, as defined in LAC 28:CXXXI.903. If the Louisiana teaching authorization of an individual has expir…

A. Explain how the definition of the meaning of rational exponents follows from extending the properties of integer exponents to those values, allowing for a notation for radicals in terms of rational exponents. Example: We define 5 1/3 to be the cube root of 5 because we want (5…

A. Add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators (including mixed numbers) by replacing given fractions with equivalent fractions in such a way as to produce an equivalent sum or difference of fractions with like denominators. Example: 2/3 + 5/4=8/12 + 15/12=23/12. In gener…

A. Interpret a multiplication equation as a comparison and represent verbal statements of multiplicative comparisons as multiplication equations, e.g., interpret 35=5 x 7 as a statement that 35 is 5 times as many as 7, and 7 times as many as 5. B. Multiply or divide to solve word…

A. Reinstatement will never be considered for an educator who has been convicted of a felony for the following crimes. 1. R.S. 14:30 , 14:30.1 , 14:31 , 14:32.6 , 14:32.7 , 14:32.8 , 14:41 , 14:42 , 14:42.1 , 14:43 , 14:43.1 , 14:43.1.1 , 14:43.2 , 14:43.3 , 14:43.414:43.5, 14:44…

A. Use a pair of perpendicular number lines, called axes, to define a coordinate system, with the intersection of the lines (the origin) arranged to coincide with the 0 on each line and a given point in the plane located by using an ordered pair of numbers, called its coordinates…

A. Construct and interpret scatter plots for bivariate measurement data to investigate patterns of association between two quantities. Describe patterns such as clustering, outliers, positive or negative association, linear association, and nonlinear association. B. Know that str…

A. Interpret products of whole numbers, e.g., interpret 5 x 7 as the total number of objects in 5 groups of 7 objects each. Example: describe a context in which a total number of objects can be expressed as 5 x 7. B. Interpret whole-number quotients of whole numbers, e.g., interp…