Chancey KPREP test results
How will the National Common Core Standards prepare
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Common Core Shifts for Students and Parents
Great YouTube Video from our State Education Commissioner about the Common Core Standards
Terry Holliday and Dave Adkisson on Academic Standards
Next Generation Learners http://www.achieve.org/
Achieve: Preparing All Students for Tomorrow. Today.
Common Core Math and Standards of Mathematical Practices
The Standards for Mathematical Practice describe varieties of expertise that mathematics educators at all levels should seek to develop in their students. These practices rest on important “processes and proficiencies” with longstanding importance in mathematics education. The first of these are the NCTM process standards of problem solving, reasoning and proof, communication, representation, and connections. The second are the strands of mathematical proficiency specified in the National Research Council's report Adding It Up: adaptive reasoning, strategic competence, conceptual understanding (comprehension of mathematical concepts, operations and relations), procedural fluency (skill in carrying out procedures flexibly, accurately, efficiently and appropriately), and productive disposition (habitual inclination to see mathematics as sensible, useful, and worthwhile, coupled with a belief in diligence and one's own efficacy).
Standards of 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
- Use appropriate tools strategically
- Attend to precision
- Look for and make use of structure
- Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning
Differences between, and connections between, Content and Practice standards
5th graders in Mrs. Ciarlante's math class problem solve and persevere
Mathematical Practice "processes"
Student engagement in Mrs. Stone's Kindergarten math class
Place Value in Kindergarten