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Commoncorealgebra1 - HS Algebra I. Commoncoregeometry - Home. Assessment Blueprints and Test Specifications. PARCC has released a set of test specification documents, including assessment blueprints and evidence statement tables, to help educators and the general public better understand the design of the PARCC assessments.

Assessment Blueprints and Test Specifications

Blueprints are a series of documents that together describe the content and structure of an assessment. These documents define the total number of tasks and/or items for any given assessment component, the standards measured, the item types, and the point values for each Evidence statement tables and evidence statements describe the knowledge and skills that an assessment item or a task elicits from students. These are aligned directly to the Common Core State Standards, and highlight their advances especially around the coherent nature of the standards. Taxonomy Table. Computer-Based Assessment: "Intermediate Constraint" Questions and Tasks for Technology Platforms Kathleen Scalise, University of Oregon, June 2009 This website introduces a taxonomy or categorization of 28 innovative item types useful in computer-based assessment.

Taxonomy Table

ETECH PARCC Integrated Technology. Tech Tools Perfect for Teaching Common Core Math Standards. *ISTE Workshop: Transitioning to the Common Core with Google Apps – Join me! The Common Core Standards for math stress real world relevance, creative problem solving, collaboration and communication. “One hallmark of mathematical understanding is the ability to justify…why a particular mathematical statement is true or where a mathematical rule comes from” (Common Core Standards). Encouraging students to engage with math actively is easier to do when educators explore technology. goo.gl/oyEHI Yummy Math: Collection of Real Life Scenarios Easily search a collection of real world scenarios by category or math level.

Google Maps: Math Map Challenges. CCSS --Math -- Tasks and Problems. America Achieves: Dashboard. Privacy Policy - Table of Contents Privacy Policy This policy (the "Privacy Policy") addresses collection, use and access to information that may be obtained through the use of this website.

America Achieves: Dashboard

We extend the following information to assure you, our guest, that we are concerned about and respect your privacy. Please know that America Achieves will never sell, lease or rent your confidential information or share it with any other organization. August 22, 2012. Seizing the Moment for Mathematics. Published Online: July 17, 2012 Published in Print: July 18, 2012, as Seizing the Moment for Mathematics Commentary By William Schmidt For years now it has been clear that the U.S. mathematics curriculum is a mile wide and an inch deep, and that the fragmented quality of mathematics instruction is related to our low ranking on international assessments.

Seizing the Moment for Mathematics

The Changing Math Classroom. Throughout this series of Let’s Chat Core, we’ve focused a lot on literacy because it impacts every teacher in every discipline.

The Changing Math Classroom

But this time, we want to take a closer look at the math standards in order to wrap our minds around the way they’re challenging teachers and students to think about math in deep, conceptual ways. Using the mathematical practices — those dispositions of mathematical thinking – as our guide, we’re able to generate an understanding about the ways in which we want our students to think. Those practices, coupled with some research and “ah-ha”s of my own help us to conceptualize the shifts towards a math frame of mind. Achieve "Understanding CCSS" Math Common Core. Videos, Common Core Resources And Lesson Plans For Teachers: Teaching Channel. As a K-12 Math Consultant, this site is where I post ideas to support the teaching of mathematics. Illustrative standards. Core Math Tools – Free Downloadable Graphing Software. The free stuff keeps coming!

Core Math Tools – Free Downloadable Graphing Software

Here is one I just heard about through NCTM. It not only is free, but it can also be downloaded onto a USB drive and accessed without an internet connection. I played around with the graphing and the geometry briefly. If you have used graphing calculators, GeoGebra or Geometer’s Sketchpad, it is easy to navigate. One downside for iPad users is that Java is required, which the iPad does not support. Core Math Tools. PARCC Homepage. PARCC Math Intro PPT. The End of "Pick C" Meet the Next Generation Assessments. Does the label "Next Generation Assessments" bring to mind a new Star Trek movie, where educators on board the USS PARCC boldly go where no teacher has gone before?

The End of "Pick C" Meet the Next Generation Assessments

It certainly seems as if there are as many acronyms tied to the Next Generation Assessments as there are in the NASA space program...EBSRs, TECRs, PCRs....it can be overwhelming to begin to think about it all. We ARE boldly going forward. CCSS Toolbox (Dana Center) PARCC Item and Task Prototypes. PARCC Task Prototypes and Sample Items Samples can be found by clicking on each grade level on the left menu.

PARCC Item and Task Prototypes

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. Dana Center Assess Prototypes. My PARCC Portal. PARCC Model Content Frameworks. Five close reading strategies to support the Common Core. I walked in to my first college class, Political Science 101, eager to learn.

Five close reading strategies to support the Common Core

For my inaugural college assignment, my professor asked the class to read the first three chapters of the textbook for the next class period. That night, I returned to my dorm room, determined to learn everything I could in those three chapters.