The Hunt Institute has produced some videos featuring the lead writers (including me) talking about various aspects of the standards. Most readers of this blog probably already know everything that is in them, but you might find them useful in educating others about the standards.
Essay by Al Cuoco on choosing curriculum aligned to the practices
Here is a two-pager on benchmarks for choosing a curriculum attuned to the Standards for Mathematical Practice written by Al Cuoco of EDC that came out of a workshop they had. I thought it might be a good stimulus for discussions about how to implement the practice standards. Comment away!
Drafty draft of Fractions Progression
Here is an early draft of the progression for Number and Operations—Fractions. Unlike the other drafts I have posted, this one does not yet incorporate all the feedback we got from initial review, so more than usual I am interested in your comments. In particular I would like to know if it is too dense and needs more explanation, or if it is just right.
If you are reading it with Adobe Acrobat, you will need the latest version (10.1). If you are using a Mac, you can also use the native Mac pdf reader Preview, or the open source pdf reader Skim.
We hope to get drafts of the remaining K–8 progressions out soon; thank you for your patience.
[File updated 2/5/12 to fix printing problems.]
[File updated 9/19/13 with corrections.]
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Curriculum analysis tool
I mentioned the curriculum analysis project led by Bill Bush a while ago. Here is the final product. It provides analysis sheets to help school districts look at curriculum materials and decide how well they reflect the standards. There is also a powerpoint for professional development of evaluators. If you have any questions, send an email to Bill Bush.
Examples of structure in the content standards
Here is a draft of a document by Jason Zimba describing structures in the content standards: CCSS Atlas (in docx format, here is a pdf of the same document). It incorporates some of Jason’s writings that I have posted before (e.g. the stuff about pinnacles, and the graphic of flows leading to algebra), but has a lot of new material as well. Well worth reading for those thinking about assessment and curriculum based on the standards.
[Edited 2011/7/09 to add pdf file.
Documents Edited 2011/12/01]
The data part of the Measurement and Data Progression
We decided to combine the geometric measurement part of the MD Progression with the Geometry Progression (coming soon!). Here is a draft of the data part of the MD Progression (covering both categorical and measurement data): ccss_progression_md_k5_2011_06_20.
We will be releasing a draft of the Fractions progression before the end of June, and the Ratios and Proportional Relationships progression in early July.
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Massachusetts resources to help teachers engage with the standards
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/.
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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