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Common Core: What can Parents Do?

Jody Popple

Math Specialist

Madison Oneida Boces

Welcome!

Tonight’s Objectives

• Help parents understand how the Common Core State Standards are different from traditional NY educational standards.

• Help parents understand what the shift to the new standards will mean for their kids.

• Help parents understand how they can help their kids at home.

 

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Common Core Math is getting the works from critics

• It’s too demanding for most kids• Holds back the speedy kids• Not the same as what parents already know• Makes kids cry• It even promotes “fuzzy math”

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Common Core lays the foundation for students to have a better grasp of mathematical concepts than previous standards, and sets higher expectations for teaching and learning.

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Math before the Core

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“Plug and Chug” math

Math was a bunch of memorized rules that didn’t make much sense.

• “Follow the rules and you will get the right answer.”

• “Do something different, and you were likely to get it wrong”

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Analytical Thinking

Figuring out which rule to apply

* We firmly believed that this was what

mathematics actually was.

1. Limited need for originality

2. Limited need for explanations

3. Limited even genuine understanding

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Learning Math The New Way

1. Leads to deeper understanding (why before how)

2. Removes the need for endless rule-memorizing

3. Provides the intellectual flexibility to apply math in new situations.

4. Also, it is A LOT MORE FUN!!!

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Good Math Produces:• Students who can compute correctly and wisely.• Students who can explain what they are doing

when they solve a problem or use math to analyze.• Students who have the flexibility and

understanding to find the best approach to a new problem.

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• Focus: learn more about less

• Build skills across grades

• Develop speed and accuracy

• Really know it, Really do it

• Use it in the real world

• Think fast AND solve problems

A Closer Look: Mathematics Shifts

Mathematical Models

• A set of concrete and pictorial models that students use repeatedly across grade levels.

• Over time, students become familiar with these models and use them in more complex ways to solve problems.

• Models become part of a students’ tool box, which will help them have a quicker understanding of concepts as they are introduced.

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Number Bonds

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Number Bonds

Crucial model for learning 3 key decompositions:1. All bonds within 10

2. The bonds of 10

*to support how much a number needs to make a 10

unit.

3. The decompositions of teen numbers as a ten and some

ones

*Essential for mastery of sums and differences to

20, which lays the foundation for place value

understanding.

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Ten Frames

• Builds toward base 10 number system.

• Helps with addition and subtraction.

• Can use concrete objects.

Rekenrek

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Place Value Chart

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• A graphic organizer that students use beginning in grade 1 through grade 5 with decimals.

• Progression:

1. Bundles

2. Base 10 Blocks

3. Disks

4. Draw Disks

5. Chip Model

Hide 0 Cards

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Area Model

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Tape Diagram

• Visual problem-solving tool that helps students solve arithmetic and algebraic word problems.

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NYS COMMON CORE MATHEMATICS CURRICULUM A Story of Units

Forms of the Tape Diagram

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NYS COMMON CORE MATHEMATICS CURRICULUM A Story of Units

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• Example 8: Jose has 4 paper clips. Harry has twice as many paper clips as Jose. How many paper clips do they have altogether?

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So, what can parents really do to help?

Finding math in everyday life

• Be supportive when your child struggles, and even encourage him or her to ask for help.

* Remember it is ok to struggle

• More fun in the real world:

-have your child ‘Do the Math’ when it pops up in daily life.

• Trips to the store can be an entertaining way for kids to reinforce their learning and to amaze you with the skills they are developing.

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Backpacks: What you should see

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Real-world examples that makes what students learn in English and math make more sense

Math homework that asks students to write out how they got their answer

Writing assignments that require students to use evidence instead of opinion

Books that are both fiction and non-fiction

Math homework that asks students to use different methods to solve the same problem

Some questions to ask your child

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Did you talk about anything you read in class today? Did you use evidence when you talk about what you read?

Did you learn any new words in class today? What do they mean? How do you spell them?

How did you use math today? Can you show me an example?

Tell me something you learned in your reading. How did you learn it?

What math problems did you do today? How did you get your answer?

Any ideas?

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Resources for parents

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• www.achievethecore.org

• www.learnzillion.com

• www.commoncore.org

Additional resources

Closing discussion

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• Common Core is a List of Topics everyone knows we should teach

• It is Not a Test• Not a Curriculum• Not a Set of Homework Problems• Not a Federal Mandate• And not a teacher evaluation tool.

They Can Do This

In the end, give children some credit. They CAN do this.https://www.engageny.org/content/new-york-students-they-can-do-it

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Thank you