1. Chris Shore The Math Projects Journal Temecula Valley USD shore@mathprojects.com @MathProjects OF THE CORE

2. The Common Core has been around long before they called it the Comon Core.

3. The

4. OF THE CORE 6 + 4 + 4 + 8 = 22 21

5. OF THE CORE Teach students to THINK and COMMUNICATE their thinking. These are the 21 st Century Skills.

6. OF THE CORE

7. were the 20 th Century Skills. are the 21 st Century Skills.

8. We are redefining RIGOR, and adding BALANCE. Shift 1FocusTeachers significantly narrow and deepen the scope of how time and energy is spent in the math classroom. They do so in order to focus deeply on only the concepts that are prioritized in the standards. Shift 2CoherencePrincipals and teachers carefully connect the learning within and across grades so that students can build new understanding onto foundations built in previous years. Shift 3FluencyStudents are expected to have speed and accuracy with simple calculations; teachers structure class time and/or homework time for students to memorize, through repetition, core functions. Shift 4Deep Understanding Students deeply understand and can operate easily within a math concept before moving on. They learn more than the trick to get the answer right. They learn the math. Shift 5ApplicationStudents are expected to use math and choose the appropriate concept for application even when they are not prompted to do so. Shift 6Dual IntensityStudents are practicing and understanding. There is more than a balance between these two things in the classroom – both are occurring with intensity.

9. OF THE CORE The 6 Shifts The 21 st Century Skills =

10. We are redefining LEARNING and SCHOOL. C ritical thinking C ommunication C ollaboration C reativity The 4 C’s

11. OF THE CORE The 4 C’s The 21 st Century Skills =

12. C oncepts & Procedures C ritical Thinking C onstruct Models C ommunicate Reasoning We are redefining Assessment. The 4 Claims

13. Old School vs New School

17. OF THE CORE The 4 Claims The 21 st Century Skills =

18. Mathematical Practices 1.Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. 2.Reason abstractly and quantitatively. 3.Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. 4.Model with mathematics. 5.Use appropriate tools strategically. 6.Attend to precision. 7.Look for and make use of structure. 8.Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning. Common Core Math is all about the Practices. The Practices are for the students. The 8 Practices

19. Explicit Teaching of Thinking “Math does not teach Problem Solving.” “Only the explicit teaching of thinking teaches thinking.” Dr. John Star

20. OF THE CORE The 8 Practices The 21 st Century Skills =

21. OF THE CORE The 6 Shifts The 4 C’s The 4 SBAC Claims The 8 Practices The 21 st Century Skills = + + +

22. OF THE CORE 6 + 4 + 4 + 8 = 21

23. Teacher Action is the Difference “The greatest influence in the quality of the education that a student receives is the decisions that a teacher makes on a daily basis.” -- Dr. William Schmidt, University of Michigan

24. Teacher Action is the Difference Teachers matter most. -- Dr. William Schmidt, University of Michigan Poverty matters … a lot. -- Dr. Uri Treismen, University of Texas, Austin Teachers matter most. -- David Foster, Silicon Valley Math Initiative

25. The Take Aways … I Hope … What you do matters … the most! The Common Core is all about teaching students to … Think & Communicate!

26. shore@mathprojects.com …with the faith that they can learn it, and that we can teach it to them. @MathProjects