1. Purposeful Planning by Backward Design and Targeting the TEKS 8th GRADE
Laura Ihonvbere
Math Instructional Team

2. Ice Breaker: Math Trivia…
A woman gives a beggar 50 cents; the woman is the beggar's sister, but the beggar is not the woman's brother. How come?
2. Why can't a man living in the USA be buried in Canada?
3. How many outs are there in an inning?
4. Is it legal for a man in California to marry his widow's sister? Why?
5. Two men play five games of checkers. Each man wins the same number of
games. There are no ties. Explain this.
6. Divide 30 by 1/2 and add 10. What is the answer?
7. If there are 3 apples and you take away 2, how many do you have?
8. A doctor gives you three pills telling you to take one every half hour. How long
would the pills last?
9. A clerk in the butcher shop is 5' 10'' tall. What does he weigh?
10. How many two cent stamps are there in a dozen?
11. What was the President's name in 1950? C

3. Things that we know: Our state curriculum is 100% aligned to the NCTM
standards
% of the SAT was over grade 8 TEKS
% of the SAT is now over grade 8 TEKS
21st year Texas gave state criterion referenced test
Texas is 43rd in the nation out of 50 in math on SAT
results
This year’s 8th graders will be the first to take EOC

4. Coming in at first place! What gets Taught… he calls this a
Marzano did an analysis of in-school factors that affect student achievement. Guess what he found?
Coming in at first place!
What gets Taught… he calls this a
“guaranteed and viable curriculum.”

5. “The impact of the actual, taught curriculum on school quality, on student learning, is indescribably important.” Marzano

6. Backward Design Process:
Look at the ARRC: At-a-Glance and Timelines
Study and understand TEKS
Create Essential Questions
Consult Kilgo testing history
Create your assessment
Plan your instruction

7. Math Planning Binders, your tool…
ARRC timelines
TEKS booklets
Kilgo Data – TAKS testing history
Coming soon to Print Shop:
Newly released TAKS testing history

8. Aligned Round Rock Curriculum…

9. Study and Target the TEKS
Cognitive alignment: Do the verbs in the SE match the steps in thinking required for answering the questions you are asking the students?
Concept Alignment : Does the noun in the SE match the concepts tested in the question?
Context Alignment: Is the context of the instruction on the concept the same as the context stated in the TEKS?
One more thought…Content Vocabulary: Does the mathematic vocabulary you are using for instruction and assessment match the vocabulary in the SE?

10. Target the TEKS…not the Topics.
8.12C Select and use an appropriate representation for presenting and displaying relationships among collected data, including line plots, histograms, and Venn diagrams with and without the use of technology.
VERB: select and use
Noun: representation for displaying data
Context: line plots, histograms, Venn diagrams
Do your instruction and assessment use this verb, noun, and context?

11. Verb: ________________ Noun: _______________ Context: _____________
Let’s Try it…
Verb: ________________
Noun: _______________
Context: _____________

12. Coming to a grade level meeting near you!
Essential Questions…
Under Construction…
Coming to a grade level meeting near you!

13. Scaffolding the Questions:
Facilitates discovery of solutions
Models the thinking you wish students
to do when solving the problem
Applies prior knowledge
References formula chart
Creates pictures, charts or diagrams
Helps students create their “own
understanding” of the concept.

14. Scaffolding… ? Office space Cost What shape is the office space?
What is the formula for the area of this figure?
Complete the following chart:
Office space
Cost
325 sq. ft
$1200
650 sq. ft.
975 sq. ft. ?
4. What is the area of the larger
office?

15. Let’s Try Scaffolding…
As a group, come up with 3 to 4 questions that break down (scaffold) this question…

16. Let’s Try Scaffolding again…
As a group, take off the answer choices and come up with 3 to 4 questions that break down (scaffold) this question…

17. More Ideas for Scaffolding…
Take off multiple choice answers on occasion
Ask for multiple representations
Reference formulas and use the formula chart daily
Ask for generalizations
Ask for an explanation, written or oral
Ask for examples or non-examples
Ask for a prediction
Invert the problem
Have students create charts and graphs
as well as interpret them

18. The key to student success is purposeful planning that Targets the TEKS and the alignment of instruction and assessment to the TEKS

19. (one stop shop for math instruction resources)
A Resource to make your planning easier…
(one stop shop for math instruction resources)
Region 9 – word documents of all questions by
TEKS and objectives
Pre-Created assessments by unit
Pre-Created activities
Much, much, more…
Math Wiki