1. Transitioning to Common Core Math
Roz Auerbach
February 2014

2. "If people just swap out the old standards and put the new CCSS in the old boxes –into old systems and procedures –into the old relationships –Into old instructional materials formats –Into old assessment tools, Then nothing will change and perhaps nothing will."
Phil Daro – chairman of the mathematics work group for Common Core Standards and lead writer for the Mathematics K-12 Common Core Standards Committee

3. "If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn." (Ignacio Estrada) 
You can forget facts, but you cannot forget understanding. (Harvard Professor Eric Mazur)

4. Common Core New Challenges in Mathematics Instruction

5. Today’s Presentation
Will give you a guided tour of my website which will be available to you throughout the school year
Specific resources will be highlighted

6. We will highlight what you as teachers need to know about the common core content for your grade level
Flip books which explain each and every standard with sample questions
Link to common core website with “the standards”

7. We will provide links to exceptional resources directly aligned to each standard for your level to be used with students
*Resources for Common Core …This site has teaching materials for every standard at every level
Algebra 1
Algebra1teacher …website – Teacher Jeanette Stein shared her entire curriculum throughout last school year
Flexmath ..online textbook

8. Will give you and your students a beginning understanding of new CC assessments
Try the sample assessments provided by PAARC

9. Common Core Standards for Mathematics
Two Types of Standards
Mathematical Practice (recurring throughout the grades)
Mathematical Content (different at each grade level)
The Common Core State Standards include two types standards:
Standards for Mathematical Practice (recurring throughout the grades) and
Standards for Mathematical Content (different at each grade level)
K-5 Mathematics Presentation CTA - CLAB: Developed by SCFIRD with support from ELCSD, SCALD, and AAD 9 9

10. Standards for Mathematical Practices

11. Required Changes
These standards require students to develop skills for mathematical thinking that apply to all strands and grade levels
Need to effect a change in delivery of content to provide for more independent and group problem solving activities
These can and should be done with and without technology.

12. Vocabulary for Common Core (new buzz words)
Focus
Coherence
Rigor
Standards of Mathematical Practice
DOK (Depth of Knowledge)

13. Mathematics of Content: 3 shifts
Focus: Focus strongly where the standards focus.
Coherence: Think across grades, and link to major topics
Rigor: In major topics, pursue conceptual understanding, procedural skill and fluency, and application

14. Shift One
Significantly narrows the scope of content in each grade level and changes how time and energy is spent within the math classroom to provide a wider variety of experiences
Focus deeply only on what is emphasized in the standards, so that students gain strong foundations

15. Shift Two Coherence
Carefully connect the learning within and across grades so that students can build new understanding onto foundations built in previous years.
Begin to count on solid conceptual understanding of core content and build on it. Each standard is not a new event, but an extension of previous learning.

19. Shift Three Rigor The CCSM require a balance of:
Solid conceptual understanding
Procedural skill and fluency
Application of skills in problem solving situations
This requires equal intensity in time, activities, and resources in pursuit of all three
This shift is about the depth of what is expected in the standards, and also about what one should expect to see happening in the classroom, in curricular materials, and so on.

20. Challenges for Middle School
The students coming into these grades have not come up through the grades exposed to the common core curriculum and therefore may not have mastered the skills from previous grade levels.
It will probably be necessary to review and “reteach” these concepts.

21. Highlighted Resource Learnzillion.com free videos
Totally aligned to each skill at each grade level (3-HS)
*major project this summer to add more resources
Short – concise - effective
Has interactive practice problems
Great for special-ed or for reviewing skills introduced at previous levels

22. Can be used for whole class instruction or independent study
Can be assigned for homework if students have home computers
Can be given to parents who want to help students at home
Works on all computers and tablets

23. Highlighted Resource *Math Assessment and Illustrative Mathematics Project
*Classroom challenge lessons complete with all necessary teaching materials including handouts, rubrics and PowerPoints
Require students to demonstrate understandings and abilities in employing mathematical practices and involves structured discussion designed to secure more long-term learning

24. Teachers’ role is to prompt students to reflect and reason through their own ideas not to merely provide answers
Teachers should begin to use problem solving activities that fit where their students are at any given time and may need to use some labeled for a lower level
*Special Ed may want to check out Mars Illustrative Math

25. What has to be done
Modify your curriculum to make sure it correlates directly to the standards.
Your textbooks, even those aligned to common core, are not the curriculum!

26. Remember
Make sure to correlate instruction to the specific skills designated by the published common core standards
Dana Center is an excellent resource for this

27. Use a wide variety of questions throughout the year.
Revise pacing guides to build in the time for the major strands of each grade level and to maintain the concepts from previous grades*.
*more time for review and reteaching may have to be included for the first year
Use a wide variety of questions throughout the year.

28. Focus for Today
Show you where to find the resources you will need to enrich your current math program to meet the goals and challenges of common core

29. Please follow along with me as I take you on the guided “tour”
Please follow along with me as I take you on the guided “tour”. You will have time to explore on your own!
Common
Core

30. Workshop Website
coolmathsites.pbworks.com