SREB Content-Specific Readiness Indicators
These indicators are taken from the report, Getting Students Ready for Algebra I: What Middle Grades Students Need to Know and Be Able to Do, published by the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB). For more information on this report, see Guidance from Expert Panels: SREB. The complete report is available for download from the SREB website.
1: Number Representation
Read, write, compare, order and represent in a variety of forms: integers, fractions, decimals, percents, and numbers written in scientific notation and exponential form, with and without technology
• Classroom Example 1. Fraction Model
2: Computation
Compute (add, subtract, multiply and divide) fluently with integers, fractions, decimals, percents, and numbers written in scientific and exponential form, with and without technology
• Classroom Example 2. Fraction Game
3: GCF, LCM, and Prime Factorization
Determine the greatest common factor, least common multiple and prime factorization of numbers
• Classroom Example 3. Broken Calculator
4: Ratios, Rates, and Proportions
Write and use ratios, rates and proportions to describe situations and solve problems
• Classroom Example 4. Digital Pan Balance
5: Geometric Figures
Draw with appropriate tools and classify different types of geometric figures using their properties
• Classroom Example 5. Dynamic Geometry
6: Perimeter, Area, and Volume
Measure length with appropriate tools and find perimeter, area, surface area and volume use appropriate units, techniques, formulas and levels of accuracy
• Classroom Example 6. Understanding Π (pi)
7: Pythagorean Relationship
Understand and use the Pythagorean relationship to solve problems
• Classroom Example 7. Pythagorean Relationship
8: Data
Gather, organize, display and interpret data
• Classroom Example 8. Demography Project
9: Probability
Determine the number of ways events can occur and the associated probabilities
• Classroom Example 9. Adjustable Spinner
10: Algebraic Equations
Write, simplify and solve algebraic equations using substitution, the order of operations, the properties of operations and the properties of equality
• Classroom Example 10. Calculator Mystery
11: Patterns
Represent, analyze, extend and generalize a variety of patterns
• Classroom Example 11. Graph and Guess My Rule
12: Functions
Understand and represent functions algebraically and graphically
• Classroom Example 12. Pay Days Challenge
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