Transcript Math Module support - Fulton City School District

COMMON CORE Math
Joseph Baldwin & Pamela McHenry
Adapted from slides from:
Kelly Stadtmiller & Kristine Kaufman
What is common core?
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The Common Core Standards are national
standards.
Common Core Curriculum has been provided
from NYSED.
Students will Delve Deeper into Core Concepts.
The Standards are a Progression.
Assessments Will Change.
Focus on Practical Skills.
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How can parents help?
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Support your child with time to do math work at
home.
Advise your child to stay after school with their
math teacher as soon as they are struggling in
class.
Attendance and effort are key.
Discuss why they are learning this math and how it
will help them in high school and college.
Practice math facts regularly at home and when
going to the store etc.
Work with your child on “gap skills” and retaining
their fluencies from K-6.
6 shifts in mathematics
Mathematics Shift 1:
Focus: learn more about less
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Spend more time on fewer concepts.
*Jr High Class of 2020
Parents Can…
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Keep up on students work through School Tools and
on-line calendars. Completing work on time when it is
being practiced in class is key.
Students need to attend school with 90% attendance.
Support students and teachers by making students
available to make up work and get after school help.
6 shifts in mathematics
Mathematics Shift 2:
Coherence:
Skills across grade levels
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Keep building on learning year after year
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Be aware of what your child struggled with
last year and how that will affect learning this
year
Practice the struggling skills at home
6 shifts in mathematics
Mathematics Shift 3:
Fluency
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Continue to practice previous skills to become more
efficient and retain the fluencies.
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Push children to know/ memorize basic math facts
(times tables, decimals, fractions and integer work are
a must at the secondary level)
 Know all of the fluencies your child –
7th grade fluency is: solve simple equations AND
8th grade fluency is: systems of equations
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6 shifts in mathematics
Mathematics Shift 4:
Deep Understanding
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UNDERSTAND why the math works.
TALK about why the math works
PROVE that they know why and how the math works
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Notice whether your child REALLY knows why the
answer is what it is – ask them “How do you know
that is correct?”
Provide TIME for your child to work on math at home
6 shifts in mathematics
Mathematics Shift 5:
Application
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Apply math in real world situations
Know which math to use for which situation without
being prompted to do so.
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Involve your child in real-world math when it comes
up
Ask your child to DO the math that comes up in your
daily life
6 shifts in mathematics
Mathematics Shift 6:
Dual Intensity
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Be able to use core math facts
Be able to explain the concept
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Make sure your child is PRACTICING the math facts
he/she struggles with
Make sure your child is thinking about Math in real
life
Standards for
mathematical practice
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Make sense of problems and persevere in solving
them.
Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
Construct viable arguments and critique the
reasoning of others.
Model with mathematics.
Use appropriate tools strategically.
Attend to precision.
Look for and make use of structure.
Look for and express regularity in repeated
reasoning.
Skills progressions
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not just “standard” algorithms?
Counting
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Grade: K
1
Rational
Number
System 
Fractions
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6
7
The Real
Number System
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8
Complex Numbers
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High School
Math strategies tape diagrams
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helps visualize word problems
Helpful resources
 Engage
NY
 Parks Math Site (Thank you Mr. Parks!)
 IXL
 Khan Academy
Video on “flipping your classroom”
 Learnzillion
 Central Square School District Website
Questions? thinking about?