CALL FOR CHANGE

K-5 Math

Presenter: JoAnn Coleman

OUR GOALS FOR TODAY ARE……..

Understand certain critical ideas from the Common Core State Standards.

Recognize the Common Core State Standards as fewer and clearer.

Recognize how standards for practice mandate better ways of managing instruction.

HERE’S THE CHANGE…….!

The North Carolina Standard Course of Study

The Common Core State Standards. More specific. These standards

define what students should understand and be able to do in their study of mathematics in each skill.

FROM: TO:

HOW TO READ THE NEW COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS….

Common Core Standards have standards, clusters and domains:

Standards: define what students should understand and be able to do.

Clusters: are groups of related standards.

Domains: are larger groups of related standards.

WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE……….

INSTRUCTIONAL TIME FOR EACH GRADE LEVEL SHOULD FOCUS ON

SPECIFIC AREAS!!!!

KINDERGARTEN SHOULD FOCUS ON TWO CRITICAL AREAS………

1. Representing, relating and operating on whole numbers, initially with sets of objects.

2. Describing shapes and space, devoted to numbers than other topics.

GRADE 1 SHOULD FOCUS ON FOUR CRITICAL AREAS………

1. Developing an understanding of addition, subtraction, and strategies for addition and subtraction within 20

2. Developing understanding of whole number relationships and place value, including grouping in tens and ones.

3. Developing understanding of linear measurement and measuring lengths as iterating length units

4. Reasoning about attributes of and composing and decomposing geometric shapes.

GRADE 2 SHOULD FOCUS ON FOUR CRITICAL AREAS……….

1. Extending understanding of base-ten notation

2. Build fluency with addition and subtraction

3. Using standard units of measure

4. Describing and analyzing shapes

GRADE 3 SHOULD FOCUS ON FOUR CRITICAL AREAS……

1. Developing understanding of multiplication and division strategies for multiplication and division within 100.

2. Developing understanding of fractions, especially unit fractions.

3. Developing understanding of the structure of rectangular arrays and of area.

4. Describing and analyzing two-dimensional shapes.

GRADE 4 SHOULD FOCUS ON THREE CRITICAL AREAS……….

1. Developing understanding and fluency with multi-digit multiplication and developing understanding of dividing to find quotients involving multi-digit dividends

2. Developing an understanding of fraction equivalence, addition and subtraction of fractions with like denominators and multiplication of fractions by whole numbers

GRADE 4 CONT………

3. Understanding that geometric figures can be analyzed and classified based on their properties, such as having parallel sides, perpendicular sides, particular angle measures and symmetry.

GRADE 5 SHOULD FOCUS ON THREE CRITICAL AREAS.............

1. Developing fluency with addition and subtraction of fractions in limited cases (unit fractions divided by whole numbers and whole numbers divided by unit fractions)

2. Developing understanding of volume

3. Extending division to two-digit divisors, integrating decimal fractions into the place value system and developing understanding of operations with decimals to hundredths and developing fluency with whole number and decimal operations.

WHILE YOU ARE TEACHING TRY TO USE THE 8 STANDARDS FOR MATHEMATICAL PRACTICE

1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.

2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively.

3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.

4. Model with mathematics.

8 STANDARDS CONT………….

5. Use appropriate tools strategically.

6. Attend to precision.

7. Look for and make use of structure.

8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

WHEN SHOULD WE START THE COMMON CORE?

NOW!!!!!BUT DON’T FORGET ABOUT THE OLD.

OLD BOXES LOOK LIKE THIS………

People are the next step. If people just swap out the old standards and

put the new CCSS in the old boxes into old systems and procedures into old relationships into old instructional materials and formats into old assessments

…… then nothing will change!!!

BUT LET’S LOOK AT IT THIS WAY……….

People are the next step. We are the key to change. We CAN create new boxes in our field. We must open our minds to possibilities and

NOT attempt to put these new state standards into old boxes.

We must look forward towards the potential of what can be!!!!!!

Thank You