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Math

North Carolina’s Standard Course of Study (NCSCOS) defines the appropriate content standards for each grade and each high school course to provide a uniform set of learning standards for every public school in North Carolina. These standards define what students know and should be able to do by the end of a specified year or course. The goal of the standards is to prepare all students to become career and college ready.

North Carolina’s Collaborative Instructional Frameworks organize high school math content into clusters based on students’ learning progression and incorporate the Standards of Mathematical Practice. These practices help develop mathematical mindsets, empower students to use math and focus on what it means for students to be mathematically proficient.

According to the State Graduation Requirement Policy, students earn four mathematics credits which shall be either:

  1. NC Math 1, 2, and 3 and a fourth mathematics course to be aligned with the student’s post high school plans.
  2. In the rare instance a principal exempts a student from the Future-Ready Core mathematics sequence, except as limited by N.C.G.S. §115C-81(b), the student will be required to pass: NC Math 1 and Math 2 plus two additional courses identified on the NC DPI Math options chart.