What Are the TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills)?

• State mandated curriculum
  
• Based on "real life" problem-solving
  
• Build the foundation necessary for students to succeed in advanced math and science courses later in their careers
  
• Mathematics TEKS for kindergarten through 8^th grade contain six curriculum strands
  

• Number, operation, and quantitative reasoning
  
• Patterns, relationships, and algebraic thinking
  
• Geometry and spatial reasoning
  
• Measurement
  
• Probability and statistics
  
• Processes and tools used in problem-solving
  

• Grade level assessments, in third grade through exit level, designed to test student mastery of the TEKS.
  

• TAKS assessment objectives are closely aligned with the six strands identified in the TEKS curriculum
  
• The TEKS student expectations assessed under each TAKS objective are vertically aligned and build logically from one grade level to the next