Tools for the Common Core Standards. This is a guest post by Morgan Saxby, a fifth grade teacher in Chesterfield County, Virginia, who works with Illustrative Mathematics. Morgan has begun writing lesson plans to accompany published mathematics tasks. A clear step after developing high-quality mathematical tasks is to develop accompanying lesson plans. I wrote seven lesson plans to accompany published tasks, all of which I tested in my classroom. My goal was to write lesson plans that guided students to the level of thinking required by both the standards and the practices. One example is the lesson plan for the task What is a Trapezoid? , aligned to standard 5.G.B.4. The format for the lesson plans is consistent through each one. The initial seven lesson plans are listed below, and others will be added in the future. 5.NF How Much Pie? 5.NF How many servings of oatmeal? 5.NF Making Cookies / Cooking Time 3 5.NF Salad Dressing / Cooking Time 4 5.OA Video Game Scores / The Order of Operations 5.G What is a Trapezoid?
Tools. Bill, My wife and I are currently assisting the Amphitheater School District with the training of their teachers from grade K to 6 on the Common Core Standards. We would love to have links in our PowerPoint presentations and PDF files (both of which we give to the teachers attending our classes) that went directly to a portion of the text or an illustration that we would like to provide as part of our lesson. For example, teachers have a hard time understanding the division of a fraction by a fraction. The 6.NS Traffic Jam illustration provides an excellent means of giving teachers some intuition about the division of fractions.
The problem is that I see no way to link to this illustration directly, or any text with the illustrations. Are there any plans to provide links. I don’t think I can get elementary school teachers to go to the home page and navigate down. Robert Springer. Tools for the Common Core Standards. Please post questions in the forums If you have questions about the standards, please click on the Forums tab above and post them in the appropriate forum. There are forums for each K–8 domain and high school conceptual category, and a general forum for questions that do not fit in any of these. Problem with RSS Feed for Forums Fixed The link to the RSS feed for the forums (on the right of this page) was broken. I’ve fixed it now. You might not have noticed (I didn’t for a while) because it was simply not updating. So if you are using an RSS reader to follow the forums, you should delete your old feed and add the new url.
K–5 Elaborations of the Practice Standards Illustrative Mathematics, with the assistance of Mary Knuck, Deborah Schifter, and Susan Jo Russell, has been working on developing grade band elaborations of the Standards for Mathematical Practice. As usual, please comment by starting a new thread in the forums. Virtual Lecture Series! Task Talks Hope to see you there! Illustrativemathematics.
Illustrativemathematics. Illustrated Standards Count to 100 by ones and by tens. (see illustrations) Count forward beginning from a given number within the known sequence (instead of having to begin at 1). (see illustrations) Write numbers from 0 to 20. Represent a number of objects with a written numeral 0–20 (with 0 representing a count of no objects). Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities; connect counting to cardinality. When counting objects, say the number names in the standard order, pairing each object with one and only one number name and each number name with one and only one object. Understand that the last number name said tells the number of objects counted. Understand that each successive number name refers to a quantity that is one larger.
Count to answer “how many?” Identify whether the number of objects in one group is greater than, less than, or equal to the number of objects in another group, e.g., by using matching and counting strategies. Fluently add and subtract within 5. Illustrativemathematics. Resource Downloads - CMP-CTE-Connection Institute.