Transcript Our Students. Their Moment.

Our Students.
Their Moment.
Engage New York
Our Purpose
• Briefly look at the reason for College and
Career Ready Standards in Kansas
• Learn more about the Engage NY Math
Curriculum
• Examine the Shifts in Math within the
standards
• Learn how to help our students with math
and available resources for guidance
College and Career
Ready Video
Three-Minute Video Explaining the
Common Core State Standards
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What is Engage NY?
• EngageNY is an initiative initially
launched by the New York State
Education Department, which has
now spread across the nation.
• It is designed to help parents and
educators grasp the new standards
set forth by recently implemented
changes in the educational system.
Engage NY
• The website found online at
www.engageny.org includes
multiple resources to help
parents and guardians
understand the changes, the
College and Career Ready
Standards, and what they can
do to help their children
continually improve.
A Closer Look: Mathematics Shifts
•
Focus: learn more about
less
•
Build skills across grades
•
Develop speed and
accuracy
•
Really know it, Really do it
•
Use it in the real world
•
Think fast AND solve
problems
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Shift #1 Build Skills
Across Grade Levels
• What to LOOK for
in the Backpack?
• Look for
assignments that
build on one
another year after
year.
• What parents
can do to help?
• Know what concepts your
child struggled with last
year and support your
child in those areas
•
Give support for “gap”
skills such as fractions
Traditional U.S. Approach
K
12
Number and
Operations
Measurement
and
Geometry
Algebra and
Functions
Statistics and
Probability
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Kansas College and Career Ready
Standards Approach
Operations and
Algebraic Thinking
Expressions
→ and
→
Equations
Number and
Operations—Base Ten
→
Number and
Operations →
—Fractions
K 1 2 3
K
1 2
4
5
3
4
Algebra
The
Number
System
6 7 8
5
6 7
→
High School
High School
Shift #2 Learn More
About Less
• What to LOOK for
in the Backpack?
• What parents
can do to help?
• Look for
assignments that
require students to
show their work
and explain how
they arrived at an
answer
• Know what
concepts are
important for your
child’s grade level
and spend time
working on them
Shift #3 Develop Speed
and Accuracy
• What to LOOK for in
the Backpack?
• What parents can
do to help?
• Look for
assignments that
ask your child to
master math facts
such as addition
groupings up to 20
or multiplication
tables
• Help your child
know and
memorize basic
math facts
• Ask your child to
“do the math” that
comes up in daily
life
Required Fluencies by
Grade Level
Grade
Required Fluency
K
Add/subtract within 5
1
Add/subtract within 10
2
Add/subtract within 20
Add/subtract within 100 (paper and
pencil)
3
Multiply/divide within 100
Add/subtract within 1,000
4
Add/subtract within 1,000,000
5
Multi-digit multiplication
6
Multi-digit division
Multi-digit decimal operations
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Solve px+q=r,p(x+q)=r
8
Solve simple 2x2 systems by
inspection
Fluency in Action
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Shift #4 Really Know It,
Really Do It
• What to LOOK for in the
Backpack?
• What parents can do to
help?
• Your student might
have assignments that
ask them to show or
explain their
mathematical thinkingto SAY why they think
their answer is the
right one
• Provide time for your
child to work on math
skills at home
• Talk to your child
about their math
homework and ask
them to teach you new
concepts. Help them
figure out ways to
explain their thinking.
They Can Do IT
• LaToya Brooklyn Parent
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Shift #5 Use Math in the
Real World
• What to LOOK for in
the Backpack?
• What parents can
do to help?
• Look for
assignments that
are based on the
real world.
Example, 5th Grade
may add fractions
as part of a recipe
• Provide time every
day for your child
to work on math at
home
• Ask them to do the
math that comes
up in daily life
Real World Problems
• NTI November 2012 Rigor
Breakdown - Visual Fraction
Models
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Shift #6 Think Fast AND
Solve Problems
• What to LOOK for in
the Backpack?
• What parents can
do to help?
• Assignments that
spend time
practicing by doing
lots of problems on
the same idea
• Push children to
know, understand
and memorize
basic math facts
• Know all the
fluencies you child
should have
Chances are…
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Getting to the Modules
• Look for Beginning Module
Newsletters to inform you about the
math your student will be doing
• Below is the link to get to the math
your students will be doing.
https://www.engageny.org/common-core-curriculum
Sample Math Problems
• Let’s Do Some Work
Sample Problems
• Sample problems may be found
at
http://www.engageny.org/resource/new-yorkstate-common-core-sample-questions
• Beginning Modules Newsletters
• With Student’s Daily Homework
• Email your child’s teacher or school
Additional Resources
• www.achievethecore.org
• www.pta.org/4446.htm
• http://www.cgcs.org/Domain/36
• http://parcconline.org/parcccontent-frameworks
OUR STUDENTS.
THEIR MOMENT.