1. By: Tara Harrell Math Specialist Hawkins County School
Common Core Math
By: Tara Harrell
Math Specialist
Hawkins County School

2. Snowball Activity 1. Write one thing you know about
Common Core State Standards
(CCSS).
2. Write one question you have
about CCSS.
Give each participant sheet of blank paper. Follow above directions. Have them wad up their snowball. Have a snowball fight!!! Then they may comment or answer question. Repeat and throw again. This time they may comment and then share from their “snowball”. Put all unanswered questions on the “parking lot”.
* Note – may also have a volunteer to take notes throughout the session.

3. Which one are you?
What do these images mean to you? Share with your shoulder partner.
Discuss/Share out:
Example items to pull out….
Are you pushing the snowball up the hill …are you running from the snowball???
Where should we be ???
You are just like everybody else
everyone will be able to identify with both of these at some point
Etc…

4. Playing the Neuroscience Trump Card
Six Brain Science Principles

6. HOW ? Standards of Mathematical Practice
Stress in the video Emily Barton talks about the mathematical practices and how the overlay of the practices on this 3rd grade cookie problem is what adds the depth…the manner is HOW this is taught. Not just the fact that they are doing multiplication and division in 3rd grade.
Mathematical Practices (there are 8 of them !!!) = the HOW
Mathematical Standards = the WHAT

7. Standards for Mathematical Practices
Make sense of problems
and persevere in solving them.
5. Use appropriate tools strategically.
2. Reason abstractly and
quantitatively.
6. Attend to precision.
3. Construct viable arguments
and critique the reasoning
of others.
7. Look for and make use of structure.
4. Model with mathematics.
8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
Groups share out.

8. Planning Lessons with the Standards for Mathematical Practice
# 28

9. Planning Lessons with the Standards for Mathematical Practice

10. Mathematical Character
As you listen to the following 5 min video clip commentary of Phil Daro, please pay attention to key concepts he uses to describe the Mathematical Practices.
Be ready to share out your ideas/thoughts.

16. WHAT ? Standards of Mathematical Content
The 2nd piece of the math standards = The Mathematical Content Standards
The Mathematical Content Standards = WHAT we teach

17. TNCore Focus Standards for each grade level for mathematics in grades 3-8
The 3-8 Math TNCore Focus Standards for the school-year are:
Grade
TNCore Focus Standards
3rd Grade
Represent and solve problems involving multiplication and division
Understand properties of multiplication and the relationship between multiplication and division
4th Grade
Extend understanding of fraction equivalence and ordering
Build fractions from unit fractions by applying and extending previous understanding of operations on whole numbers
5th Grade
Use equivalent fractions as a strategy to add and subtract fractions
Apply and extend previous understanding of multiplication and division to multiply and divide fractions
6th Grade
Understand ratio concepts and use ratio reasoning to solve problems
Apply and extend previous understanding of arithmetic to algebraic expressions
7th Grade
Analyze proportional relationships and use them to solve real-world and mathematical problems
Solve real-life and mathematical problems using numerical and algebraic expressions and equations
8th Grade
Define, evaluate, and compare functions
Understand the connections between proportional relationships, lines, and linear equations
Math for TCAP will cover current TN standards minus the cut SPIs (See slide 37 and handout) as well as the above listed TNCore Focus Standards.
The TNCore Focus Standards are 2 math standards per grade for grades 3-8 taken from CCSS.
These same standards will be the focus of the TN CRA grade 3-8 in Oct/Feb/May.
Note – similar standards for ELA 3-8 and Math K-2 and ELA K-2 are set to be released at some point (TBA~prior to testing)

18. Dropped Tennessee Math SPI’s
3rd Grade – dropped 8 Standards
6th Grade – dropped 8 Standards
4th Grade – dropped 9 Standards
7th Grade – dropped 8 Standards
5th Grade – dropped 5 Standards
8th Grade – dropped 5 Standards
Have participants take a moment to review the (SPI’s) to be Dropped Handout
Table Talk:
What do you notice?
What surprises you?

19. …and deeper. 3rd Grade Math There were 28 cookies on a plate.
3OA.3 (Operations and Algebraic thinking): Use multiplication and division within 100 to solve word problems in situations involving equal groups, arrays, and measurement quantities, e.g., by using drawings and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problems.
There were 28 cookies on a plate.
Five children each ate 1 cookie.
Two children each ate 3 cookies.
One child ate 5 cookies.
The rest of the children each ate 2 cookies.
Then the plate was empty
How many children ate 2 cookies? Use multiplication equations and other operations, if needed, to show how you found your answer.
Jane thinks this question can be solved by dividing 28 by 2. She is wrong. Explain using equations and operations why this is not possible.
See Tara’s pdf of multiple ways to solve this task
Source: University of Pittsburgh, Copyrighted

20. Procedural Fluency Pool Border
How many different ways can you find to count the border tiles of an 8 x 8 pool without counting them one at a time?
p. 25
(Van de Walle, Karp, and Bay-Williams 2010b, 257)

26. Conceptual Understanding Tile Problem
A construction worker puts 1 foot by 1 foot tiles on the floor to form shapes of different sizes that follow the pattern below:
# 2
# 4
# 5
p. 28
(Pearson Education, Inc. 2008, B-25)

27. Must Have Resources !!!
Anything Van De Walle

28. Must Have FREE Downloads !!!
NC Unpacking the Standards
PARCC content Model Frameworks
Mathematical Practices Classroom Posters (Jordan School District, Utah)
Arizona Progression Documents
TNCore Cut SPIs
TnCore Focus Stan
dards (2 per grade)
CCSS Mathematical Practices and Content Standards for your grade level

29. Websites & Apps www.corestandards.org www.tncore.org  
Common Core
Standards
Common Core
Look-Fors

30. THANK YOU !!!
Tara Harrell