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