High School Word Problem Goals
Updated: December 22, 2025. Reviewer: Dr. Rose Sebastian, Ed.D.
High School Word Problem IEP Goals
Browse CCS-aligned IEP goals and objectives for word problems, units, and measurement. These mathematics goals for students in 9th to 12th grade focus on how students use measurement units in solving word problems. Not seeing the grade level or skill you need? Check out our elementary school, middle school, and high school word problem goals. Want to see what goals look like in your state? Go through our state specific IEP guides. Need to know if an IEP goal is good and what IDEA says about goals? Check out our how to read IEP goals pages. Check out our teaching strategies page and our word problems resources in the store.
- Use units as a way to understand problems and to guide the solution of multi-step problems; choose and interpret units consistently in formulas; choose and interpret the scale and the origin in graphs and data displays. CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.HSN.Q.A.1
- One step word problems, same units, all four operations
- One step word problems, all four operations, with unit conversions at the end (e.g., meters to cm)
- One step word problems with two different units
Given a calculator, Sue can multiply and divide negative numbers with 60% accuracy. She can simplify multiplication expressions with like terms with 20% accuracy.
- Given a calculator, Name will use units to guide the solution of multi-step problems, solving word problems involving measurement with 80% accuracy as measured by teacher observations and records CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.HSN.Q.A.1
- Make it easier: Make the word problems one-step. Specify what types of measurements or conversions should be in the problem, like “involving weight or length in metric units” or “involving time.”
- Make it harder: Specify that the problems be multi-step and involve conversions between units.
