1. The California Mathematics Standards

2. The California Standards come in two flavors General Standards Green dot standards

6. California Intervention The new California Framework has the same standards as the 1998 Framework. But it also has a new appendix on intervention programs.

9. Algebra Readiness For at risk students there is also a discussion of the requirements for algebra preparedness:

11. The original material Unfortunately, politics muddied the water, and the exposition is not quite what H.-H. Wu and I provided.

14. The NCTM Focus Topics

15. The Focus Topics

17. The Role of the Focus Topics NCTM regards the Focus Topics as a description of how an effective curriculum in mathematics should look. But comparing the Focus Topics with most state standards reveals a very poor fit. An exception is California. The Green Dot standards closely align with the Focus Topics. In CA, 85% of the state assessments in mathematics are on these standards.

18. Focus Topics – Numbers

19. Focus Topics Fractions

20. Focus Topics Fractions, Ratios

21. Focus Topics, Algebra, Data

22. A Consensus is Emerging In fact, standards designed in this way cut the need for intervention and support maximal achievement for all students

23. The Programs in the top achieving countries follow these principles. And their data comprises literally billions of people