New Mexico Statutes Chapter 22. Public Schools § 22-15E-2. Definitions

A. “bureau” means the mathematics and science bureau;

B. “chief” means the chief of the bureau;

C. “council” means the mathematics and science advisory council;

D. “mathematics difficulty” means a student's inability to perform at grade level when learning or applying mathematical concepts, as determined by screening or other assessments;

E. “mathematics instructional leadership framework” means a structured, evidence-based model developed by the department to strengthen mathematics teaching and learning;

F. “mathematics professional learning plan” means a plan developed by a school district or charter school on a department-provided template that is aligned with the department's mathematics instructional leadership framework;

G. “mathematics screening assessment” means a department-approved, grade-specific and nondiagnostic assessment administered at the beginning of the school year to assess a student's performance in mathematics;  and

H. “mathematics support plan” means a written plan developed for a student on a department-provided template that identifies individualized and differentiated areas of mathematics learning needs and that describes specific intervention strategies that will be provided at school and strategies that can be used by parents to support student learning.