Mathematics | Home | Mathematics. For more than a decade, research studies of mathematics education in high-performing countries have concluded that mathematics education in the United States must become substantially more focused and coherent in order to improve mathematics achievement in this country. To deliver on this promise, the mathematics standards are designed to address the problem of a curriculum that is “a mile wide and an inch deep.”
These new standards build on the best of high-quality math standards from states across the country. They also draw on the most important international models for mathematical practice, as well as research and input from numerous sources, including state departments of education, scholars, assessment developers, professional organizations, educators, parents and students, and members of the public. The math standards provide clarity and specificity rather than broad general statements.
The Common Core concentrates on a clear set of math skills and concepts. Exploring Coherence in the New Math Standards - Activity Recording Sheet. Illustrativemathematics. The University of Arizona - Institute for Mathematics & Education. The Common Core State Standards in mathematics were built on progressions: narrative documents describing the progression of a topic across a number of grade levels, informed both by research on children's cognitive development and by the logical structure of mathematics.
These documents were spliced together and then sliced into grade level standards. From that point on the work focused on refining and revising the grade level standards. The early drafts of the progressions documents no longer correspond to the current state of the standards. It is important to produce up-to-date versions of the progressions documents. They can explain why standards are sequenced the way they are, point out cognitive difficulties and pedagogical solutions, and give more detail on particularly knotty areas of the mathematics. This would be useful in teacher preparation and professional development, organizing curriculum, and writing textbooks. Untitled. Resources for Implementation. Sample curriculum framework documents District curriculum framework documents need to address the curriculum at different grain sizes to be effective, and the Charles A. Dana Center supports districts in creating such framework documents. Sampled below are three of the four types of curriculum framework documents on which we work.
These documents represent our thinking about how the concepts and skills described in the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics might be developed across the course of a school year. Year-at-a-glance Year-at-a-glance documents show an overview of the mathematics through a year of instruction on one page. The documents below cluster the Year-at-a-glance documents into grade bands. Sequenced Units Each of these documents shows the standards clustered into units, and suggests a sequence to the units. These documents are intended as a starting point for districts as they think about the design of their own courses. Elaborated Scope and Sequences.
PARCC Online. Item and Task Prototypes. PARCC Task Prototypes and Sample Items Samples can be found by clicking on each grade level on the left menu. There are two types of samples found on these pages: • Task Prototypes, which were released in August 2012; and, • Sample Items, which were released beginning on August 15, 2013 The task prototypes were created to provide viable early models to guide item development.
The sample items represent the current state of PARCC item development and provide users a snapshot of what the 2014-2015 assessments will look like. The new sample items are first presented in PDF format to emphasize a focus on the content of the items. Learn more about: PARCC ELA/Literacy Rubrics The PARCC ELA/literacy Rubrics have been updated to reflect lessons learned from the extensive PARCC field test. Score points for the Conventions trait were reduced from 4 score points to 3 points. Use of sample and practice test items. PARCC Releases Assessment Blueprints and Test Specifications Documents. PARCC Releases Assessment Blueprints and Test Specifications Documents WASHINGTON, D.C. - April 30, 2013 - The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) today released assessment blueprints and test specifications for both the English language arts/literacy and mathematics assessments set to debut in 2014-15.
These blueprints and test specifications will help educators better prepare students for the new online assessments that are aligned to the more rigorous Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and designed to measure college and career readiness. “These tools will help educators assist staff in both teaching the CCSS and in designing common classroom-based assessments that will help students become college- and career-ready and to succeed on the PARCC assessments,” said Cindy Journell-Hoch, an Elementary Teacher Specialist for School Administration and Leadership for Frederick County Public Schools in Maryland. Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium.
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Don’t have an email address? Newspaper generator. RTI Kindergarten - 5th Grade Resources. RTI and Math Instruction. By Amanda VanDerHeyden, Ph.D., Education Research and Consulting, Inc., Fairhope, AL Using RTI to Improve Learning in Mathematics Response to Intervention (RTI) has become a vehicle for system reform because it provides a framework in which data can be relied on as the basis for making relative judgments (e.g., determining who needs help the most and how much they need) and for distributing instructional resources to promote the greatest good for the greatest number of students.
Much of the writing and research on RTI has occurred in the area of reading, but RTI is not limited to reading. Rather, it is a science of decision making that can be applied to a variety of “problem” behaviors. RTI, properly understood and used, is focused on improving student learning. Ensuring the development of mathematics competence during the primary grades is essential to later learning success.
Key findings in the literature highlight the need to focus on early mathematics instruction: References Fuchs, L. K-12 News. Instructure Launches Open Resource LTI App Catalog LMS provider Instructure has launched EduAppCenter.com, an open resource Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) catalog that lets users incorporate more than 130 education apps into their own LMS or education environment. By Stephen Noonoo04/24/14 Florida Assessments Back Online After Day Outage Online testing in Florida schools being delivered by Pearson Education hiccupped on Tuesday, April 22, at 26 districts in the state and had to be delayed for a day while server problems were sorted out.
By Dian Schaffhauser04/23/14 NCAA Declines Coursework From 24 Virtual High Schools The NCAA has notified virtual school provider K12 Inc. that it will no longer accept accept coursework from 24 of its schools for initial eligibility review for prospective student athletes. Beginners Guide for Seasonal/Temporary Pools • Pool School • Trouble Free Pool. The Pool Calculator. Infographs. Mind mapping. Three Ring | An App for Teachers to Create Educational Portfolios of Student Work with an iPhone, iPad, or Android Smartphone. Apps and Ideas for Literature Circles on iPads. Mobile Learning | Feature Apps and Ideas for Literature Circles on iPads By Margo Pierce05/08/12 Technology is sliding a power cord, app, or some other innovation into every aspect of education, even elementary reading classes. Today, the use of e-books and iPads in the classroom are taking reading to a “whole new level,” according to Diane Darrow, library information media specialist at Bel Aire Elementary in Tiburon, Calif and an Apple Distinguished Educator.
Darrow says that traditional methods for teaching reading have centered on a verbal-only methodology, which she describes as using one track in the brain. This approach fails to utilize other ways of learning that engage students and supports the development of reading skills such as comprehension, retention, and vocabulary. “You want to give [kids] different types of learning experiences so that learning sticks in the brain,” Darrow says. Don’t understand a word in the text? Letters to Lions. ClassConnect | Find, build and share lessons. Socrative | Student Response System | Audience Response Systems | Clicker | Clickers | Student Clickers | ARS | Mobile Clicker | Software Clicker. Welcome to Google Docs. Mr. Leander23. Kathy Schrock's Guide to Everything - Bloomin' Apps. This page gathers all of the Bloomin' Apps projects in one place.Each image has clickable hotspots and includes suggestions for iPad, Android, Google and online tools and applications to support each of the levels of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy.I have created a page to allow you to share your favorite online tool, iOS, or Android app with others.
Cogs of the Cognitive Processes I began to think about the triangular shape of Bloom's Taxonomy and realized I thought of it a bit differently.Since the cognitive processes are meant to be used when necessary, and any learner goes in and out of the each level as they acquire new content and turn it into knowledge, I created a different type of image that showcased my thoughts about Bloom's more meaningfully.Here is my visual which showcases the interlocking nature of the cognitive processes or, simply, the "Cogs of the Cognitive Processes".
IPAD APPS TO SUPPORT BLOOM'S REVISED TAXONOMYassembled by Kathy Schrock Bloom's and SAMR: My thoughts. Readwritethink. Microsoft PowerPoint - Sprague_and_Sadler_OPBS_Final.ppt. Integrate iPads Into Bloom's Digital Taxonomy With This 'Padagogy Wheel' You’re going to want to turn on your printer and fire up a PDF viewer. This is just that good. It’s called the Padagogy Wheel and it offers a fantastically useful perspecitve on how to figure out which iPad apps work with Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy. Created by Allan Carrington , this thing is a monster and deserves some focused attention. So I’d make a personal plea to save the hi-res image (below) or print out the PDF ( available here ) and then spend your long weekend closely examining this thing. The Padagogy Wheel takes an expanded approach Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy and offers 62 iPad apps that fit into the organized chaos that is Bloom’s. On Allan’s blog (check it out, it’s great!)
He explains that not every app is perfect and that there’s always room to improve. See Also: 35 Digital Tools That Work With Bloom’s Taxonomy What do you think of some of the apps and where they’re placed on the wheel? Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: A Great Resource Sheet on How to Grow Your PLN on Twitter. Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: Everything Teachers Need to Know about Google Plus. Google Plus is turning two and it seems like we have been using it forever. The educational potential of this social networking website is huge and it is just getting better and better. I know some of you are not fully into it but I am pretty sure once you get used to it you will find it way more interesting than many other social media sites including Facebook.
I do spend a considerable amount of time on Google Plus interacting and sharing resources with teachers and educators on Educational Technology and Mobile Learning page. I also use Google Plus to stay updated of what others are talking about particularly in the field of ed tech. There are several other ways to use Google Plus for educational purposes. Google Plus Video Tutorials 1- Google Plus : Get Started 2- Google Plus: Set up your profile 3- Google Plus: Customize your setting 4- Google Plus: Start a Page 5- Google Plus: Start a Hangout 6- Google Plus: Events 7- Google Plus Communities 8- Google Plus: Sharing. Blooming Orange: Bloom's Taxonomy Helpful Verbs Poster.
Here’s another poster to help get you thinking about how you can apply Bloom’s higher-order thinking skills with your children. This poster shows the segments of an orange with each segment relating to a thinking skill and some helpful verbs to serve as prompts. While there are many more verbs that we could have added, we felt that including just seven in each segment would make them easier to remember (For more information, see Miller’s paper “The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information.” We thought it would be interesting to depict the verbs in a circular form as opposed to a hierarchical list, given that these skills don’t often occur in isolation and are interconnected. We went through several concepts including a wheel, a pie, and an apple, but somehow the orange seemed to work best when we put everything together. For those of you who prefer it, we’ve also created a grayscale version of the poster. Download the pdf’s here:
Webb's Depth of Knowledge - QCSD Elementary Special Interest. Bloom+wheel.png 550×548 pixels. To Get Students Invested, Involve Them in Decisions Big and Small. By Matt Levinson When asked why he became a scientist, Nobel Laureate Isidor Rabi attributed his success to his mother. Every day, she would ask him the same question about his school day: “Did you ask a good question today?”
“Asking good questions – made me become a scientist!” Rabi said. Questions are critical, and how to manage and navigate a good question requires practice. “Coming up with the right question involves vigorously thinking through the problem, investigating it from various angles, turning closed questions into open-ended ones and prioritizing which are the most important questions to get at the heart of the matter,” say authors Dan Rothstein and Luz Santana in their book, Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions.
The hardest part about using design thinking in class is getting the question right and staying in the question. [RELATED: For Students, Why the Question is More Important Than The Answer] Online Reproducibles. Google Drive for Teachers with ‘How-to’ video links | dedwards.me. Edutopia: Teaching Critical Thinking and the CC. Reading%20Level%20Conversion%20chart. Events in Instruction- Event #8. CCSS. CCSS Videos - The Reading. Pathways to the Common Core: Videos from Inside Classrooms features almost 40 clips of Common-Core aligned teaching and learning. We captured these scenes of classroom teaching in an effort to help you imagine methods of teaching that can support students in moving towards the ambitious standards set by the Common Core.
Watch videos of teaching aimed to help move students toward major aspects of the standards: Reading Literature Reading Informational Texts Opinion/Argument Writing Information Writing Narrative Writing Each clip includes critical commentary by a member of the Project staff and explains connections we see to the Common Core. School: PS 199 Title: Common Core Aligned Book Club ConversationSynopsis: A informally shot video of a fourth grade historical fiction book club from PS 199 engaging in cross-text, cross-genre conversation. You’ll notice their conversation integrates fiction and informational texts at grade-level text complexity around the same topic. EngageNY | Our Students. Their Moment. CC Assessment: Formative, Summative, and Standardized.
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