The Massachusetts Department of Education has some activities to help teachers understand the focus, coherence, clarity and rigor of the standards. They are called Explorations and you can find them at http://www.doe.mass.edu/candi/commoncore/mathexplore/.
Author: Bill McCallum
Essay by Jason Zimba on “pinnacle” standards
Here’s a short essay by Jason Zimba, Lasting achievements in K–8, that gives an example of a standard occupying a strategic position in the flow of the standards, serving as the culmination of many pathways and as the starting point for many more.
2010 CBMS white paper, “Common Standards and the Mathematical Education of Teachers”
I’m at a meeting of the APLU Science and Mathematics Teacher Imperative, where I was reminded of the 2010 CBMS Forum White Paper on educating teachers for the Common Core, which I think will be useful to people planning teacher preparation and professional development.
Complete draft progression for CC and OA
Here is the draft progression for the Kindergarten Counting and Cardinality Progression and the K–5 Operations and Algebraic Thinking Progression. It includes some edits to the K–2 progression from the previous version: ccss_progression_cc_oa_k5_2011_05_30. [File updated 6/1/2011.]
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Draft progression on Counting and Cardinality and Operations and Algebraic Thinking (K–2)
We have combined the Kindergarten Counting and Cardinality Progression with the K–5 Operations and Algebraic Thinking Progression. Here is the first half, ccss_progression_cc_oa_K2_2001_05_08, going as far as Grade 2. As usual, comments welcome on this thread. Grades 3–5 will follow soon.
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Recommendations for initial professional development on the Common Core
Here is the draft report of the policy workshop Gearing Up for the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics, held at the Westward Look resort in Tucson, Arizona on 1–2 April 2011. The workshop convened representatives from state departments of education and school districts, the K–12 community, mathematicians, mathematics educators, professional development deliverers, and policy organizations to develop recommendations for the initial domains of professional development on the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics. [Link updated 5/11]
K–8 standards by domain in pdf form
I’ve been meaning to put these up for a while. The tools page now has individual pdfs for each domain in K–8.
Illustrative Mathematics website goes live
I’m pleased to announce the launch of illustrativemathematics.org, site of Illustrative Mathematics. It provides a flexible display of the standards, with the hierarchy expanding or collapsing at a click, and the K–8 standards viewable both by grade level and by domain. Over the next few months we will be adding illustrative tasks and problems linked to the standards.
Draft of progression on Expressions and Equations
Here is the draft of the progression on expressions and equations. Comments and suggestions welcome in the comment area of this post.
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NCTM presentation on Common Core
Here are my my slides for the NCTM presentation on the Common Core. Zalman Usiskin also presented, and I believe he is willing to send you his slides if you send him an email. You can watch a webcast here.