1. Welcome! My name is (Pearson Sales Rep) and I am very excited to present to you today our new Prentice Hall Middle Grades Mathematics Common Core Edition; a program built especially for middle school students with full alignment to the Common Core State Standards. Prentice Hall Middle Grades Mathematics also offers you better technology to engage your middle school learners and most importantly, better results!

2. Prentice Hall Common Core Edition ©2012
100% alignment to the Common Core State Standards
Common Core Lessons in the Student Edition
Teacher Lesson Support and Pacing in the Teacher Edition
The Common Core Edition of Prentice Hall Mathematics for Courses 1, 2 and 3 contains Common Core Lessons created to ensure 100% alignment to the Common Core State Standards. The Lessons are found in the Student Edition and Teacher support and pacing for these lessons can be found in the Teacher Edition. 2

3. Each Common Core Lesson is made up of Activities or Lesson Examples along with a set of exercises. The specific Common Core State Standard being addressed is identified in the upper left hand corner. These Common Core Lessons will also be available online at Pearson Success Net for Current Users of the ©2010 Edition as well as users of the ©2012 Common Core Edition. 3

4. Additional CCSS Assessment Updates
Updated Benchmark Tests for cumulative assessment of CCSS
Updated CCSS on ExamView, LessonView and online in SuccessTracker
Updated Benchmark Tests in SuccessTracker and updated Common Core State Standards correlations to ExamView and LessonView will be available Fall of 2011. 4

5. How does Middle Grades Math align with the Common Core State Standards?
A correlation of the Middle Grades Math series to the Common Core State Standards is available from your Pearson sales representative. We have illustrated where the text aligns with the CCSS and where we created the additional Common Core Activities to ensure 100% the alignment to the CCSS. When to teach these lessons is laid out in the Pacing Guide within the Teacher Edition. 5