Common Core Shifts for Math
1. Focus strongly where the Standards focus
Focus: The Standards call for a greater focus in mathematics. Rather than racing to cover topics in today’s mile-wide, inch-deep curriculum, teachers use the power of the eraser and significantly narrow and deepen the way time and energy is spent in the math classroom. They focus deeply on the major work* of each grade so that students can gain strong foundations: solid conceptual understanding, a high degree of procedural skill and fluency, and the ability to apply the math they know to solve problems inside and outside the math classroom.
2. Coherence: think across grades, and link to major topics* within grades
Thinking across grades: The Standards are designed around coherent progressions from grade to grade. Principals and teachers carefully connect the learning across grades so that students can build new understanding onto foundations built in previous years. Teachers can begin to count on deep conceptual understanding of core content and build on it. Each standard is not a new event, but an extension of previous learning.
Linking to major topics: Instead of allowing additional or supporting topics to detract from the focus of the grade, these topics can serve the grade level focus. For example, instead of data displays as an end in themselves, they support grade-level word problems.
3. Rigor: in major topics* pursue: Conceptual understanding, Procedural skill and fluency, and Application with equal intensity.
Conceptual understanding: The Standards call for conceptual understanding of key concepts, such as place value and ratios. Teachers support students’ ability to access concepts form a number of perspectives so that students are able to see math as more than a set of mnemonics or discrete procedures.
Procedural skill and fluency: The Standards call for speed and accuracy in calculation. Teachers structure class time and/or homework time for students to practice core functions such as single-digit multiplication so that students have access to more complex concepts and procedures.
Application: The Standards call for students to sue math flexibly for applications. Teachers provide opportunities for students to apply math in context. Teachers in content areas outside of math, particularly science, ensure that students are using math to make meaning of and access content.
*Priorities in Support of Conceptual Understanding and Fluency
Grade K-2 - Addition and subtraction—concepts, skills, and problem solving
Grade 3-5 - Multiplication and division of whole numbers and fractions-concepts skills, and problem solving
Grade 6 - Ratios and proportional relationships; early expressions and equations
Grade 7 - Ratios and proportional relationships; arithmetic of rational numbers 2
Grade 8 - Linear algebra
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Grants help local students learn, exercise while 'moving to the numbers' --  VISIT |
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Students at two elementary schools in Tennessee will learn math through movement next year. The district will use a grant to purchase the Math & Movement program, which teaches basic math skills through exercise. "School systems in Chattanooga have used this for the past two years and have tracked those students and they saw a great increase in math scores," said Misty Keller, coordinator of school health for Kingsport City Schools. Times News (Lehighton, Pa.)
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FREE WEBINAR: How to Successfully Transition to the Common Core for Math -- VISIT |
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Thursday, June 27, 2013
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (Central Time)
Presented by John SanGiovanni, Instructional Facilitator, Elementary Mathematics Howard County (Md.) Public School System
The Common Core State Standards for mathematics call for student understanding on a conceptual level, to grasp the foundational concepts behind math procedures. Transitioning to teaching this mathematical way of thinking will require new tools and methods. In our community’s next webinar, we will discuss best practices for implementing the Common Core for math with John SanGiovanni, a mathematics supervisor for the Howard County Public School System in Maryland. Learn from a case study of the 51,000-student Howard County Public School System, where administrators created a phased Common Core transition plan, with a feedback and support system as well as a portal of online tools and resources for teachers and administrators. Join John on June 27th to learn how to successfully transition to the Common Core for math.
REGISTER HERE
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STEM Jobs Account for About 1 in 5 Kansas City Area Jobs -- VISIT |
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Recent article in the Kansas City Star reporting on the high level of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) jobs in the Kansas City area.
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Introducing: EDUC6992A ALGEBRAIC THINKING: ITZ THE THOUGHT THAT COUNTS -- VISIT |
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Dear Colleagues:
As Director of the Newman University Graduate Education Program, I am proud to announce our partnership with Toni Prickett, national trainer for Cognitive Coaching and Adaptive Schools, and Dr. Sheila Hyde, an experienced consultant with national, state, and district level expertise in Common Core implementation. Toni and Sheila are Co-founders of the ITZ Group and are also serving as Adjunct Instructors for Newman University. I am pleased to announce the national launch of this “Just-in-Time” Common Core Math learning opportunity for your Elementary Teachers, M.S. & H.S. Math Instructors & Para Educators (Principals, Central Office and Board Members, too). This online course is A VALUABLE investment of Title I, Title II or other year-end funds!
Introducing: EDUC6992A ALGEBRAIC THINKING:
ITZ THE THOUGHT THAT COUNTS
An Online, Self-Paced Course with a Video Forward by Robert Garmston & Art Costa
to Help Your Teachers and Para Educators Increase Students’ Math Achievement!
Take a look at this interactive, engaging, rigorous e-Course that is all about the questions teachers ask – questions that check for understanding, and questions that uncover what students do and do not know about mathematics, so there’s a place to intervene in their thinking. As this course unfolds, educators will add to their toolkit of questions tied directly to the Standards, as well as practice specific skills to facilitate a learner-centered classroom, all through the lens of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (Content and Practices).
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You can help your teachers learn how a Common Core math classroom can and should look and sound.
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You can register your staff whenever you decide—the 90 day course clock starts when you think it works best.
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You can easily track how the course is being accessed and completed.
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This just in time news means that you might want to use year-end funds or new July 1 monies.
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Believe it or not—this online course is FUN and hands-on!
The EDUC6992A Algebraic Thinking: ITZ The Thought That Counts course is only $149 and participants have 90 days to complete the course. For only $120, teachers can sign up for 2 hours of graduate credit, or para educators can earn undergraduate credit—with no travel costs, complete flexibility, integrated real-time tools for Common Core implementation of 21st Century skills in job-embedded, innovative professional learning – and you have 24/7 access to monitor usage.
Just follow these easy steps:
1. Go to www.commoncoremaththinking.org -- take a look at the What Can I Learn Page and samples on the home page
2. View a free 15 minute demo ( CLICK HERE )
3. Complete the registration information for individual or group registration using a credit card or purchase order.
This is an exciting new type of learning that Kansas educators and students deserve! This just-in-time news means that you might want to use year-end funds or wait for new July 1 monies – for example, you could purchase 50 “seats” or logins now and assign the them anytime during the summer or after school starts during the year - the 90 day window of learning starts when you assign it!
NOTE: there is a discounted rate with the purchase of 20 or more seats!.
Feel free to call or email if you have questions.
Warmly,
Gina
Gina Marx, Ed.D., Director
School of Education Graduate Program
Newman University
3100 McCormick, Wichita, KS 67213
316.305.6557 or marxg@newmanu.edu
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My Summer Math Reading List -- VISIT |
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By NCTM President Linda M. Gojak
NCTM Summing Up, June 6, 2013
Summer is here! Time for picnics, playing at the beach, gardening, and reading! One of my fondest memories as an elementary student was riding my bike to the pool and stopping at the library on the way home to pick up another book for the summer reading club. At the end of each school year, we were given a summer reading list with two books assigned and the others as suggested readings. I still love to read and summer is the time to enjoy the books that have been sitting on my shelf waiting to spend some time with me.
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2013 Kansas Association of Teachers of Mathematics Conference -- VISIT |
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GETTING TO THE CORE OF HIGH QUALITY MATHEMATICS!
YOU WON’T WANT TO MISS THIS!
JOIN US IN JUNCTION CITY ON OCTOBER 14, 2013 FOR THE KANSAS STATE MATHEMATICS CONFERENCE!
Take advantage of this professional development opportunity to sharpen your skills, gain new techniques, and learn from innovative practitioners and experts in the field.
Choose from more than 75 sessions, workshops, and conversations on such crucial issues as high quality instruction and coaching, formative assessment in the Common Core, reasoning and proof, response to intervention, deepening content knowledge, CCSS unit design, incorporating argumentation in the classroom, supporting new teachers, and much more!
Visit the following website to register! https://sites.google.com/site/katmjunctioncity2013/
Participants: $50 each Exhibitors: $150 each
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Research links physical activity with improved reading, math performance -- VISIT |
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The increased focus that No Child Left Behind brought to reading and math has, over the years, caused many school administrators to reduce time spent in physical education and recess. However, a report released last month from the National Institute of Medicine finds that students need at least 60 minutes per day of moderate to vigorous exercise and such physical activity could lead to better academic performance in reading and math. The Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
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Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium
On May 29 we take another giant step in the development of the next-generation assessment system: the initial release of Smarter Balanced Practice Tests aligned to the Common Core in grades 3-8 and 11 in English Language arts/literacy (ELA) and mathematics. Starting Wednesday, students, teachers, and parents nationwide will have access to sets of assessment questions aligned to the Common Core. We hope these Practice Tests are used for professional development and for discussions with policymakers and other interested stakeholders. The Practice Tests will be freely available through a link on the Smarter Balanced website at: http://www.smarterbalanced.org/practice-test/.
While the Practice Tests will provide a preview of the Smarter Balanced assessments, we want users to know that they will not encompass the full range of content that students may encounter on the operational assessments. As such, they should not be used to guide instructional decisions about students. Also, users should know that this early release of practice items will be presented in a “fixed form” (i.e., not computer adaptive) and that users will not receive reports or scores. Although the Practice Tests follow a fixed-form model, the operational assessment system will be computer adaptive.
Development of the Smarter Balanced Assessment System will continue after the release of the Practice Tests and through summer 2014 in collaboration with member states and educators. By fall 2013, this initial version of the Practice Tests will be augmented with additional features, including:
- Full array of performance tasks for mathematics (including classroom-based activities);
- Classroom-based activities for ELA performance tasks in all grades;
- Scoring rubrics for items requiring extended writing;
- American Sign Language translation and other accommodation and accessibility tools.
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Selecting Valid and Reliable Instruments for Science and Mathematics Content Knowledge -- VISIT |
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MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM EVALUATION
Seminar Meeting
Featuring Dr. Jonathan Brendefur and Dr. Michele Carney
Title: Selecting Valid and Reliable Instruments for Science and Mathematics Content Knowledge
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
12:00 - 1:30 p.m. (MDT)
The seminar is intended to strengthen MSP project evaluation by familiarizing MSP Project Directors and Evaluators with valid and reliable instruments for measuring science and mathematics content knowledge along with considerations for validating their own instruments.
TO REGISTER
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Inspiring Parents to Jump on Board -- VISIT |
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Event: Webinar: Inspiring Parents to Jump on Board
Join on Tuesday, June 18, 2013- 12pm / Eastern Time for "Riding the CCSS Math Train: Inspiring Parents to Jump on Board – and Stay There!" with Bon Crowder, co-creator of the That's Math! website that helps parents talk real-world math with their children. To participate in the live session, log in at http://www.instantpresenter.com/edwebnet4 at the scheduled time.
Date: Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Starts: 12:00 pm (GMT-5) Eastern Time (US)
Ends: 1:00 pm (GMT-5) Eastern Time (US)
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