How does Bloom's Taxonomy fit in to this? The taxonomy is more appropriate within uses, within properties, within skills — than it is across them. Specifically, the understanding of application ranges from the trivial that can be memorized (knowledge) to the knowledge of generalizations (comprehension) to the transfer of what is known from one context to another (application) to the invention of new mathematical models (analysis synthesis, and evaluation). For example, here is a question about applications at the knowledge level: If two independent events have probabilities 2/3 and 4/5 , what is the probability they will both happen? Here is one at the level of comprehension: Examine whether two events are independent, given certain probabilities of occurrence. And here is one at the level of evaluation: Develop an experiment to determine whether these events are independent.