2012 Parent Engagement Summit. Common Core State Standards in

Mathematics

Common Core State Standards

Outlines the skills and

knowledge young people need to be successful in college and in their careers

What?• Are aligned with college and workforce

expectations; • Are clear, understandable and consistent; • Include rigorous content and application of

knowledge through high order skills; • Build upon the strength of our current state

standards; • Are informed by standards in other top

performing countries, so all students are prepared to succeed in the global

economy and society; • Are evidence-and research-based.

Why?• To insure that all students are college

and career ready in literacy and mathematics no later than the end of high school.

• A set of expectations based on research, evidence of success, and high‐achieving international models rather than opinion and tradition.

• Many feel the standards are an important milestone in helping America close its achievement gap with other countries in math and science education

• Clear to every student, parent, and teacher what the standards of success are in every school.

Why? Approximately 30% of students do not graduate high

school in four years, a rate that grows to nearly 50% for minority and low-income students.

Approximately 20% of students entering four-year colleges, and at least 40% of students entering two-year community colleges, must take remedial courses in English and/or math in order to learn, or relearn, high school level skills before they can even begin taking credit-bearing college courses—all the while paying college tuition.

Education Week (2011). Graduation in the United States. http://www.edweek.org/media/ew/dc/2010/34sos_gradrate.pdf

National Center for Education Statistics (2003). Remedial Education at Degree-Granting Postsecondary Institutions in Fall 2000.

How? The Timeline for MNPS

2011-2012 ELA and Math CCSS K-22012-2013 ELA and Math CCSS K-8

ELA 9-122013-2014 ELA and Math K-122014-2015 New CCSS Assessments

Shift in Mathematics Topic Placement for U. S. with Common Core

Common Core State Standards for

Mathematics

is a breakthrough in focus and coherence articulates a progression of learning that

deepens a student’s ability to understand and use mathematics

concentrates on core conceptual understandings and procedures starting in the early grades, thus enabling teachers to take the time needed to teach core concepts and procedures well – and to give students the opportunity to really master them.

Common Core State Standards in Mathematics

Focus as seen in high performing countries. ◦ critical elements for future learning and application,

giving students more time to develop the procedural fluency and conceptual understanding

A solid foundation in whole numbers, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, and decimals. ◦ attention to these building blocks, thus aligning with

practices of high performing countries and the recommendations of our own National Research Council’s Early Math Panel report.

Common Core State Standards- Math

Source:

Key Instructional Shifts in Mathematics

The Common Core State Standards emphasize coherence at each grade level – making connections across content and between content and mathematical practices in order to promote deeper learning. The standards focus on key topics at each grade level to allow educators and students to go deeper into the content. The standards also emphasize progressions across grades, with the end of progression calling for fluency – or the ability to perform calculations or solving problems quickly and accurate. The Standards for Mathematical Practice describe mathematical “habits of mind” or mathematical applications and aim to foster reasoning, problem solving, modeling, decision making, and engagement among students. Finally, the standards require students to demonstrate deep conceptual understanding by applying them to new situations.

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Students must: Parents can:

• Spend more time on fewer concepts. • Know what the priority work is

for the child for their grade level

• Spend time with child on priority work

• Ask child’s teacher about their progress on priority work

Focus- learn more about lessTeach Less, Learn More

Imagine you are on a 1 minuteescalator and a parent asks you to

explain the meaning of FOCUS and its impact on instruction. Take 2 minutes to

think your response then share your response with a neighbor.

Activity- FOCUS

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The K- 8 standards:The K-5 standards provide students with a solid foundation in whole numbers, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions and decimals

The 6-8 standards describe robust learning in geometry, algebra, and probability and statistics

Modeled after the focus of standards from high-performing nations, the standards for grades 7 and 8 include significant algebra and geometry content

Students who have completed middle school and mastered the content and skills will be prepared for algebra

Overview of K-8 Mathematics Standards

Preparation for algebra ◦ “The teaching of fractions must be acknowledged

as critically important and improved before an increase in student achievement in algebra can be expected.”- National Mathematics Advisory Panel

Application to the real world. ◦ The middle school and high school standards call

on students to practice applying mathematical ways of thinking to real world issues and challenges; they prepare students to think and reason mathematically

Common Core State Standards- Math

Students must: Parents can:

• Keep building on learning year after year • Be aware of what the child

struggled with last year and how that will affect learning this year

• Ensure that support is given for “gap” skills – negative numbers, fractions, etc

Skills Across the Grades

Students must: Parents can:

• UNDERSTAND why the math works. MAKE the math work. • Notice whether child REALLY

knows why the answer is what it is

• TALK about why the math works

• Provide TIME for child to work hard with math at home

• PROVE that they know why and how the math works

• Make sure child is thinking about Math in real life

Know It- Do It!

Assessments- THEN

Assessments- Now

Difference in Thinking

Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC)◦ develop a common set of K-12 assessments in English

and math anchored in what it takes to be ready for college and careers

◦ www.parcconline.org

Assessment Services Supporting ELs through Technology Systems (ASSETS) ◦ build a comprehensive and balanced technology-based

assessment system for English language learners◦ http://www.wida.us/assessment/assets.aspx

Assessments

Common Core State Standardswww.corestandards.org

PTA Guide to Student Successhttp://www.pta.org/5307.htm

Council of the Great City Schools’ Parent Roadmaps to CCSShttp://cgcs.schoolwires.net/Page/244

Resources