Same thing, different name
You looked something up, found an explanation, and it used a word that isn’t on your kid’s paper. That’s usually because it was written for the rest of the country. Texas says it differently.
| The model | On a Texas page | Elsewhere | Where it shows up |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bars showing part and whole | strip diagram | tape diagram | TEKS 3.5B and 4.5A, and STAAR items |
| Trading a ten to subtract | borrow | rename, decompose | Any subtraction with regrouping |
| Disks in labeled columns | place-value chart | place value mat | Hundreds / tens / ones work |
| The standards themselves | TEKS, by code | Common Core standard | Texas writes its own standards |
| The test | STAAR | state assessment | Grades 3–8 and end-of-course |