COMMON CORE Math Joseph Baldwin & Pamela McHenry Adapted from slides from: Kelly Stadtmiller & Kristine Kaufman

What is common core?  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. VIDEO

How can parents help?  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  Students Must…  Spend more time on fewer concepts. *Jr High Class of 2020  Parents Can…  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  Students Must…  Keep building on learning year after year  Parents Can…  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  Students Must…  Continue to practice previous skills to become more efficient and retain the fluencies.  Parents Can…  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 – 7 th grade fluency is: solve simple equations AND 8 th grade fluency is: systems of equations

6 shifts in mathematics Mathematics Shift 4: Deep Understanding  Students Must…  UNDERSTAND why the math works.  TALK about why the math works  PROVE that they know why and how the math works  Parents Can…  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  Students Must…  Apply math in real world situations  Know which math to use for which situation without being prompted to do so.  Parents Can…  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  Students Must…  Be able to use core math facts  Be able to explain the concept  Parents Can…  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  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  Why not just “standard” algorithms? Counting Numbers  Fractions  Rational Number System  The Real Number System  Complex Numbers  Grade: K High School

Math strategies tape diagrams  Really helps visualize word problems

Helpful resources  Engage NY Engage NY  Parks Math Site (Thank you Mr. Parks!) Parks Math Site  IXL IXL  Khan Academy Khan Academy Video on “flipping your classroom”  Learnzillion Learnzillion  Central Square School District Website Central Square School District Website

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