Common Core Resources

KATM Supports the Implementation of the

Common Core State Mathematics Standards

NCSM position paper 

Kansas Common Core Myths and Facts

Websites, files, and discussion related to the  Common Core State Standards:

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Structuring the mathematical practices  Bill McCallum

In the progressions project we’ve been discussing how best to represent the standards for mathematical practice. The practices are signposted throughout the documents, but we’ve also been thinking about how to provide some structure for the practice standards that will help people avoid fruitless tagging exercises in their efforts to integrate the practice standards into the content standards. If you think about it long enough you can associate just about any practice standard with any content standard, but this sort of matrix thinking can lead to a dilution of the force of the practice standards—if you try to do everything all the time, you end up doing nothing. This diagram is an attempt to provide some higher order structure to the practice standards, just as the clusters and domains provide higher order structure to the content standards. http://commoncoretools.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/practices.pdf

Summer Academy 2012

The Sylvester’s powerpoints:

Flipbooks

The Common Core “FlipBooks” are a compilation of research, “unpacked” standards from many states, instructional strategies and examples for each standard at each grade level. The intent is to show the connections to the Standards of Mathematical Practices for the content standards and to get detailed information at each level.

Resources used: Common Core State Standards, NCTM’s Focus In Grades K-8 series, Student Centered Mathematics by J. VandeWalle, Arizona, Ohio and North Carolina department of education “unpacking” of the standards. This “Flip Book” is intended to help teachers understand what each standard means in terms of what students must know and be able to do. It provides only a sample of instructional strategies and examples. The goal of every teacher should be to guide students in understanding & making sense of mathematics.

 

Websites

K-5th –

 

FOR K-8TH

Several mentioned more time to study/understand WHAT to teach as part of CCSS.  A good place for more detailed information about the mathematics of the content standards and what each means is part of the “Progression” documents being written by the CCSS authors.   You MIGHT want to visit those “Progressions” —- http://commoncoretools.me/category/progressions/

 

FOR K-12–

LESSON PLANS from Lesson Planet.com–may be a resource for creating mini-units for standards that are missing or too shallow in your texts.

The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) Math Common Core collection features digital learning resources that address concept and skills components of the Math Common Core State Standards. The collection is organized by grade level and domain, as defined within the Common Core documents. Resources in this collection include lesson plans, simulations, problem sets with explanations, student activities that provide feedback, and other interactives. The collection will continue to grow as new resources are added regularly

 

http://nsdl.org/commcore/math

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*TED Video: Let’s Use Videos to Reinvent Education,March 2011

http://www.ted.com/talks/salman_khan_let_s_use_video_to_reinvent_education.html

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*FANTASTIC–lots of lesson ideas and actual lesson plans to use now

http://map.mathshell.org/materials/stds.php#standard1159

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*Common Core Tools from the Dana Center at UT Austin-

AWESOME RESOURCES!!!

http://www.ccsstoolbox.org/

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MORE DESCRIPTION

PARCC (the OTHER testing consortium that Kansas. is NOT part of) has released draft frameworks for common core standards.  Lots of information!

http://parcconline.org/sites/parcc/files/PARCC_Draft_ModelContentFrameworksForMathematics_0.pdf

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http://commoncoretools.wordpress.com  Keep an eye on this for more info on the Standards progressions (final versions) being written by members of the original work team.  This is actually Bill McCallum’s site.  He is one of the main authors of the Math CCSS.  This site includes materials from the Illustrative Math Project which is a collection of sample tasks and problems (intended as a resource for interpreting standards with sample tasks/problems that capture that standard.  You can also find the standards in web form —easy to use)

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 Inside Mathematics is a professional resource for educators interested in improving students’ mathematics learning and performance. This site features classroom examples of innovative teaching methods and insights into student learning, tools for mathematics instructionthat teachers can use immediately, and video tours of the ideas and materials on the site.

http://insidemathematics.org/
Check out the info on the Standards for Mathematical

Practices…….quite good! VIDEO CLIPS FROM CLASSROOMS.

http://www.insidemathematics.org/index.php/commmon-core-math-intro

 

SMARTER BALANCE CONSORTIUM– the group Kansas is working with on new state assessments

For those interested, SBAC just released the second draft of their math content specifications on their website.  You can find the new version online at: http://www.k12.wa.us/SMARTER/Resources.aspx

 

Content specifications from Smarter Balance (Dec. 2011 draft) includes a pool of 8th grade sample problems starting on page 70.
http://www.k12.wa.us/SMARTER/ContentSpecs/MathContentSpecifications.pdf

Summer Academy 2011 Files

Discussion