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On the Arizona DOE website (http://www.azed.gov/wp-content/uploads/PDF/MathGr3.pdf) I noticed that, at the end of their Standards document for each grade level (the link above is for Gr. 3), they have included a section on the Standards for Mathemtaical Practice with explanations and examples for each standard at that grade level. In researching multiple states’ websites, I am finding this same wording posted in some form. Was this done by the writers of the CCSS or was it done by one of these states and then others are using it as well?
I did participate in a review of the Arizona documents, but didn’t participate in writing them. Not sure I remember the specifics of these comments any more.
Send me an email privately (you can find my email address by googling my name) and I will put you in touch with someone who probably knows.
Hi Dr. McCallum,
I am researching educator understanding of the CCSSM. Regarding the standards for mathematical practice (SMP), after reviewing the 45 states’ DOE sites I found three states (Arizona, Colorado, and Kentucky) that connected the standards for mathematical content to the SMP at each grade level (see links below). So far, I have not found a content standard at any grade level where all three states agreed on the related SMP’s. My question is:
Should there be agreement?
This website has been like a gold mine for my research. Thank you.
Terry Langton
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Arizona – http://www.azed.gov/standards-practices/mathematics-standards/
Colorado – http://www.cde.state.co.us/CoMath/StateStandards.asp
Kentucky – http://education.ky.gov/curriculum/math/pages/mathematics-deconstructed-standards.aspxI took a quick look at these. Arizona and Kentucky both attach practice standards to individual content standards, whereas Colorado attaches them at a higher level, so it’s hard to compare Colorado with the other two. It’s not surprising to me that people come up with different ways of attaching practice standards to content standards, because the practice standards really live in curricular implementation of the standards. For any given standard, you can imagine it being touched in at numerous different moments in the curriculum, and in different ways, with different styles of teaching. All of these differences would bring different practice standards to mind. I would expect more agreement if people started tagging practice standards to particular moments in a particular curriculum.
Good Afternoon Dr. McCallum,
Our school district is going to add open response questions to our formative assessments, (given once each quarter). The desired goal is to have students creating written justification for their thinking or work. I have been researching rubrics to use to assess these responses but I have not seen anything out there. Do you or your team have any suggestions?
Thank you.
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