1. TOOLS FOR SUCCESS: COMMON CORE, COLLEGE AND CAREER CONFERENCE MARCH 19, 2014 CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LONG BEACH Pipeline for Ramping Up to the Common Core Standards-Math Tools for the Middle Grades

2. California Mathematics Project Established 1983 State and Federal Funding Professional and Leadership Development K-12 Teachers of Mathematics PD Institutes, Grants, Fee-For-Service Contacts

3. Common Core State Standards in Mathematics Adopted 2010 by Ca. State Board of Ed. 2011 CMP Task Forces  Fractions on the Number Line  Counting and Cardinality  K-8 Modeling  HS Modeling  Transformational Geometry

4. CMP CaCCSS-M Task Force Materials http://caccssm.cmpso.org

5. CaCCSS Standards for Mathematical Practice Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them Reason abstractly and quantitatively Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others Model with mathematics

6. CaCCSS Standards for Mathematical Practice Use appropriate tools strategically Attend to precision Look for and make use of structure Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning

7. Unpacking SMP 4 7 Take a few minutes to read SMP 4, highlighting key words or phrases that seem particularly cogent or that puzzle or intrigue you. Make a note of questions you have about the specifics of SMP 4.

8. Fermi Estimates Choose one of the Fermi Estimate Problems Work on the Problem in pairs or groups

9. Kyndall Brown kyndallb@math.ucla.edu www.cmpso.org www.facebook.com/pages/California- Mathematics-Project/204271326276885 (310) 794-9885