ESSENTIAL ELEMENT, LINKAGE LEVELS, AND MINI-MAP
MATH: 8TH GRADE
M.EE.8.NS.2.A
Grade-Level
DLM Essential
Linkage Levels
Standard
Element
M.8.NS.2 Use that
M.EE.8.NS.2.a
Initial Precursor:
• Recognize separateness
numbers that are not Express a
fraction
with
a
• Recognize set
rational are called
denominator of
Distal
Precursor:
irrational.
100 as a decimal
• Partition sets into equal subsets
Understand
• Explain unit fraction
informally that every
Proximal Precursor:
number has a
• Explain the decimal point
decimal expansion;
• Represent a fraction with a denominator of
for rational numbers
10 as a decimal
Target:
show that the
• Represent a fraction with a denominator of
decimal expansion
100 as a decimal
repeats eventually,
Successor:
and convert a
• Compare two decimals to the tenths using
decimal expansion
symbols
which repeats
• Compare two decimals to hundredths using
eventually into a
symbols
rational number
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Key to map codes in upper right corner of node boxes:
IP
Initial Precursor
SP
Supporting
PP
Proximal Precursor
UN
Untested
DP
T
Distal Precursor
Target
S
Successor
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