This page represents my personal schema of the strands of math. Though my professor only identified four strands in class, other sources {such as the article I reviewed} classify measurement separately, which I decided fits better with my personal understanding of math. I view patterns and relations as being the foundation for all math, essential for understanding how numbers and shapes work. I believe that the strands of numeracy and geometry {AKA, shape and space} are directly built on understanding of patterns and relations. Measurement is built on these two strands because you need numbers to manipulate

units of measurement and shape and space to have something solid to measure. Finally, statistics, probability, and data analysis build on top of everything because they involve the measurement of abstract concepts and patterns, using numbers and shape to represent these abstract concepts and find the patterns and relationships.