Explain It To Me Videos

Math Solutions: A brief introduction to the Standards for Mathematical Practice and the "big idea" behind each of the eight practices.
Common Core Quick Tips

What Works in Flipped Classroom

Education Week Webinar
 
The flipped classroom model—in which students watch video lessons for homework and receive more direct, individual instruction from teachers during class time—is rapidly gaining popularity in K-12 schools, with websites such as Khan Academy offering thousands of free video lessons. Some teachers see flipped learning as a way to spend more time working with their students and less time lecturing. But critics of the approach have called it nothing more than a high-tech, time-shifting tool that often leaves students confused about the content they’re supposed to be absorbing at home. Our guests will discuss the pros and cons of this approach and highlight the best methods for making a flipped classroom successful.

Illuminations :Dynamic Paper

Need a pentagonal pyramid that's six inches tall? Or a number line that goes from ‑18 to 32 by 5's? Or a set of pattern blocks where all shapes have one-inch sides? You can create all those things and more with the Dynamic Paper tool. Place the images you want, then export it as a PDF activity sheet for your students or as a JPEG image for use in other applications or on the web.

Progressions for Algebra and Functions

Draft progressions on high school Algebra and Functions

Math Common Core Coalition

The coalition works to:

1. Provide a means to review, research, nurture, and communicate common messages throughout the implementation and assessment of the CCSSM.
2. Provide expertise and advice from the communities of mathematics education content and assessment experts for the development of the content frameworks of the assessment consortia for the CCSSM.
3. Collect information about the implementation and assessment processes of the CCSSM that will inform future revisions of the CCSSM. http://www.nctm.org/standards/mathcommoncore/

Standards for Mathematical Practice

The Importance of Mathematical Practices

The Standards for Mathematical Practice describe varieties of expertise that mathematics educators at all levels should seek to develop in their students.
These practices rest on important “processes and proficiencies” with longstanding importance in mathematics education. The first of these are the NCTM process standards of problem solving, reasoning and proof, communication, representation, and connections. The second are the strands of mathematical proficiency specified in the National Research Council’s report Adding It Up: adaptive reasoning, strategic competence, conceptual understanding (comprehension of mathematical concepts, operations and relations), procedural fluency (skill in carrying out procedures flexibly, accurately, efficiently and appropriately), and productive disposition (habitual inclination to see mathematics as sensible, useful, and worthwhile, coupled with a belief in diligence and one’s own efficacy).

Interdisciplinary Options

Radical Math
Radical Math Teachers are educators who work to integrate issues of economic and social justice into our math classes, and we seek to inspire and support other educators to do the same.

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence

Teaching and Learning Resources from Federal Agencies

MDOE

CCSS-Math Professional Development

The Real-World

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http://katm.org/wp/common-core/

Standards for Mathematical Practice

Insidemathematics.org
Standard 1: Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them

Common Core and ELLs

Why Teachers Should Read the ELPD Framework

What the new standards mean for English language learners

 October 31, 2012 by Diane Staehr Fenner

FOILed

Foiled by the FOIL Method

3 Read Strategy for Problem Solving

This strategy is from Unlocking Math Concepts workshop with Grace Kelemanik and Toby Caplin. 
Implementation may look like:
1. A student reads the problem to whole class.  Students fill in first box, share answers with small group then out to whole class and ideas are noted on board.
2.  Repeat 3 times.  
Great when used with diagramming as an entry point before students try to engage with complex problem.

SAS Curriculum Pathways

The world's largest privately held software company, SAS was founded in academia and has maintained strong ties to the academic community.

Teaching Channel

Teaching Channel is a video showcase -- on the Internet and TV -- of innovative and effective teaching practices in America's schools.

Bringing the Common Core State Mathematics Standards to Life

Phoenix Rising By Hung-Hsi Wu
For many teachers, mathematics is a frightening subject. They are right to be afraid: most math standards are incoherent and virtually all textbooks contain many errors. Worse, teacher education in mathematics, both pre- and in-service, tends to be light on mathematics content that is relevant to the K–12 classroom. Solving these problems will take enormous effort, but the Common Core State Mathematics Standards are an important first step. Unlike most other standards, these have the potential to logically and coherently build students' knowledge of mathematics. Bringing these standards to life in classrooms will require a new partnership between mathematicians and educators so that correct mathematics and effective pedagogy can be written into brand new (not revised!) teacher education programs and student textbooks.

BloombergEDU

BloombergEDU
David Coleman, a creator of the common core curriculum, who will become president of the College Board in October, discusses math and literacy standards.

Core Math Tools Home

Core Math Tools is a downloadable suite of interactive software tools for algebra and functions, geometry and trigonometry, and statistics and probability. The tools are appropriate for use with any high school mathematics curriculum and compatible with the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics in terms of content and mathematical practices. Java required.

Sample Lessons

Math Literacy

The following link is to a blog entry on literacy in the content area of mathematics.  There are two resources listed at the bottom.  The second one, by Marcia Tate ,I know from attending one of her workshops is especially useful.
Math Literacy Resources

Release of Sample Items

Smarter Balanced has released Sample Items and Performance Tasks
Smarter Balanced sample items illustrate the rigor and complexity of the English language arts/literacy and mathematics items and performance tasks students will encounter on the Consortium’s next-generation assessments.

PARCC

The PARCC sample items and tasks can and should be viewed as one of the many types of materials educators can use during the transition to the CCSS and PARCC.

Common Core State Standards: Math Instructional Shifts

Education Week
The fate of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for Mathematics will depend on how we teach more so than what we teach.

Common Core Shifts

Mathematics

1. Focus strongly where the Standards focus
2. Coherence: Think across grades, and link to major topics within grades
3. Rigor: In major topics pursue conceptual understanding, procedural skill and fluency, and application with equal intensity

Implementation 

The videos on this site exemplify the key shifts that Common Core brings to classroom pedagogy. For more information on the shifts please see the Description of the Common Core Shifts. Or, listen to the teachers featured on the site in the ELA shifts video and Math shifts video and in What Does it Mean?.

Welcome!

Welcome to our newly created site.  Over the course of the year this site will serve as documentation of the work done towards developing a K-12 curriculum aligned to Common Core State Standards.  We look forward to collaborating with you.
Peg Hillman and Melissa Labbe