Arizona standards

Arizona’s schools teach the Arizona Mathematics Standards, adopted by the State Board of Education in December 2016. The documents for Grades 3 to 8 were reissued in January 2025 with the Essential Standards marked.

How edition 2.0 meets them

Edition 2.0 is being written to Arizona’s standards and codes, not the Common Core’s, so that each grade’s standards are taught in that grade, each rule with its reason. Arizona keeps the Common Core’s grade for every fraction standard, but it differs elsewhere: for example, coins are named in Grade 1, money problems to $20.00 come in Grade 3, and prime factorization comes in Grade 5. Arizona also codes the eight mathematical practices in every grade.

Edition 2.0’s source is being written so that every lesson carries the codes of the standards it meets, and so does every problem that alone meets a standard. Each grade’s correlation is generated from that same source as the printed books. It gives the week in which each standard is taught, so a committee can see what comes before the spring state test.

The family edition on our home page follows the course’s own order, not a state’s, so some topics come later there than Arizona places them. Edition 2.0 is planned to teach each in Arizona’s grade. Judge grade placement by edition 2.0.

The correlation, grade by grade

For each grade, every Arizona standard with the lessons that teach it, the pages where it is practised, and where it is checked. We publish a grade’s correlation only when no standard of that grade is left unmet. Each grade’s correlation is sent with its review materials: ask at sales@witheveryreason.org.