Transcript EngageNY - Camden Central Schools

Common Core: What can
Parents Do?
Jody Popple
Math Specialist
Madison Oneida Boces
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Welcome!
Tonight’s Objectives
• Help parents understand how the Common Core
State Standards are different from traditional NY
educational standards.
• Help parents understand what the shift to the new
standards will mean for their kids.
• Help parents understand how they can help their
kids at home.
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Common Core Math is getting the
works from critics
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It’s too demanding for most kids
Holds back the speedy kids
Not the same as what parents already know
Makes kids cry
It even promotes “fuzzy math”
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Common Core lays the foundation
for students to have a better grasp
of mathematical concepts than
previous standards, and sets higher
expectations for teaching and
learning.
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Math before the Core
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“Plug and Chug” math
Math was a bunch of memorized rules that didn’t
make much sense.
• “Follow the rules and you will get the right
answer.”
• “Do something different, and you were likely to
get it wrong”
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Analytical Thinking
Figuring out which rule to apply
* We firmly believed that this was what
mathematics actually was.
1. Limited need for originality
2. Limited need for explanations
3. Limited even genuine understanding
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Learning Math The New Way
1. Leads to deeper understanding (why before how)
2. Removes the need for endless rule-memorizing
3. Provides the intellectual flexibility to apply math in new
situations.
4. Also, it is A LOT MORE FUN!!!
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Good Math Produces:
• Students who can compute correctly and wisely.
• Students who can explain what they are doing
when they solve a problem or use math to analyze.
• Students who have the flexibility and
understanding to find the best approach to a new
problem.
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A Closer Look: Mathematics Shifts
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Focus: learn more about
less
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Build skills across grades
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Develop speed and
accuracy
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Really know it, Really do it
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Use it in the real world
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Think fast AND solve
problems
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Mathematical Models
• A set of concrete and pictorial models that
students use repeatedly across grade levels.
• Over time, students become familiar with these
models and use them in more complex ways to
solve problems.
• Models become part of a students’ tool box,
which will help them have a quicker
understanding of concepts as they are
introduced.
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Number Bonds
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Number Bonds
Crucial model for learning 3 key decompositions:
1. All bonds within 10
2. The bonds of 10
*to support how much a number needs to make a 10
unit.
3. The decompositions of teen numbers as a ten and some
ones
*Essential for mastery of sums and differences to
20, which lays the foundation for place value
understanding.
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Ten Frames
• Builds toward base 10 number system.
• Helps with addition and subtraction.
• Can use concrete objects.
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Rekenrek
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Place Value Chart
• A graphic organizer that students use beginning in
grade 1 through grade 5 with decimals.
• Progression:
1. Bundles
2. Base 10 Blocks
3. Disks
4. Draw Disks
5. Chip Model
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Hide 0 Cards
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Area Model
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Tape Diagram
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Visual problem-solving tool that
helps students solve arithmetic and
algebraic word problems.
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A Story of Units
Forms of the Tape Diagram
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© 2012 Common Core, Inc. All rights reserved. commoncore.org
A Story of Units
• Example 8: Jose has 4 paper clips. Harry has twice
as many paper clips as Jose. How many paper clips
do they have altogether?
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© 2012 Common Core, Inc. All rights reserved. commoncore.org
So, what can parents really do to help?
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Finding math in everyday life
• Be supportive when your child struggles, and even
encourage him or her to ask for help.
* Remember it is ok to struggle
• More fun in the real world:
-have your child ‘Do the Math’ when it pops up in daily life.
• Trips to the store can be an entertaining way for
kids to reinforce their learning and to amaze you
with the skills they are developing.
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Backpacks: What you should see
Books that
are both
fiction and
non-fiction
Real-world examples
that makes what
students learn in
English and math
make more sense
Writing assignments
that require students
to use evidence
instead of opinion
Math homework
that asks students
to write out how
they got their
answer
Math homework
that asks students
to use different
methods to solve
the same problem
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Some questions to ask your child
Did you talk about
anything you read
in class today?
Did you use
evidence when
you talk about
what you read?
Tell me something
you learned in your
reading. How did you
learn it?
Did you learn any
new words in
class today? What
do they mean?
How do you spell
them?
How did you
use math
today? Can
you show me
an example?
What math problems did you do
today? How did you get your
answer?
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Any ideas?
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Resources for parents
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Additional resources
• www.achievethecore.org
• www.learnzillion.com
• www.commoncore.org
Closing discussion
• Common Core is a List of Topics everyone knows we
should teach
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It is Not a Test
Not a Curriculum
Not a Set of Homework Problems
Not a Federal Mandate
And not a teacher evaluation tool.
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They Can Do This
In the end, give children
some credit. They CAN do
this.
https://www.engageny.org/content/new-york-students-they-can-do-it
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Thank you
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