1. Parent Math Information Night December 6, 2011 Rebecca Fleming & Noreen Haus

2. Welcome to Parent Math Information Night ! Purpose: To gather information about your child’s math program To learn techniques for helping your child with mathematics at home

3. Elementary Math Expectations DESIRED OUTCOMES: All students will leave all elementary schools ready to enroll in higher level mathematics in middle school. MAIN GOALS: Virginia Dept. of Education and APS expectations are that each student completes Algebra I successfully by grade 8 Teachers will have the content knowledge necessary to effectively teach the APS curriculum All students will be appropriately challenged in mathematics

4. Mathematics Standards Virginia “sets rigorous academic standards, known as the Standards of Learning (SOL)” – Grades K -12 and “measures achievement through annual SOL tests and alternative and alternate assessments.” – Grades 3-12.

7. Newly revised and adopted Standards (2009) Enhanced emphasis on Process Standards Changes to the SOLS and the impact on assessment and instruction

8. Process Standards 8 VIRGINIA (Process Goals) NCTM (Process Standards) CCSS (Mathematical Practices) Mathematical Problem SolvingProblem Solving1) Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. Mathematical CommunicationCommunication3) Construct viable and critique the reasoning of others Mathematical ReasoningReasoning and Proof2) Reason abstractly and quantitatively Mathematical ConnectionsConnections7) Look for and make use of structure 8) Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning Mathematical RepresentationsRepresentations4) Model with mathematics 5) Use appropriate tools strategically 6) Attend to precision

9. 9 Technology Enhanced Items (TEI) about 15% Format of Questions: Fill in the blank Drag and drop Hot-spots: Select one or more answer options, placing points on coordinate planes Creation of graphs

10. Assessments – Then and Now 10 Grade 3 OLD NEW

11. Assessments – Then and Now 11 OLD Grade 3 NEW

12. Assessments – Then and Now 12 OLD Grade 4 NEW

13. Assessments – Then and Now 13 OLD Grade 5 NEW

14. Assessment – All Levels Increased focus on multistep and applied (“practical” or “real world”) problems Testing the converse of a standard Probability can be represented in many ways Increased emphasis on models and multiple representations (number lines, fraction models, operations with fractions) Prior knowledge from earlier grade levels 14

15. Becoming Problem Solvers through mathematics not for mathematics Become mathematical problem solvers that communicate mathematically; reason mathematically; make mathematical connections; and use mathematical representations to model and interpret practical situations 15

16. APS Mathematics Approaches and Resources Whole and Small Group Instruction Small group pull out as well as integrated ESOL/HILT and Special Education instruction Integrated differentiation in the classroom as well as small group pull-out for identified GT students Instructional support provided by Math Coach Math Expressions Textbook, Workbook, and on-line resources EveryDay Counts Calendar Math Continental Math League Contests– Grades 2-5

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18. An Instructional Example from Math Expressions: Grade 4 Factor Fireworks

19. Develop Conceptual Understanding Helping Community Five Core Lesson Structures Building Concepts Math Talk Quick Practice Student Leaders

20. Children share strategies and solutions orally and through proof drawings. Math Talk “Aren’t there enough problems in the world already?”

21. Meaningful Mathematics – Math Talk Students explain their thinking using drawings that support understanding and promote meaning Students analyze different methods Develops students’ math language skills and confidence Students help each other understand by explaining thinking Student-to-student talk is encouraged and flourishes

22. Manipulatives Math Drawings Symbols LanguageSymbolsLanguage Proof Pictures LanguageSymbols Math Talk SolveExplain QuestionJustify Guiding Questions and Prompts

23. There are many ways!

24. Student Participation is Key Today in math I will… ask a question answer a question retell a problem in my own words share how I solve a problem retell what another person says

25. Blackboard Resources http://apsva.blackboard.com

26. Rebecca Fleming, Math Lead Teacher rebecca.fleming@apsva.us Noreen Haus, Math Coach noreen.haus@apsva.us noreen.haus@apsva.us Image: Zazzle.com