Special offer for those who register for the Implementing the Common Core workshop before October 1st, you will receive your own copy of the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics signed by lead author Bill McCallum! Register today on the IM&E website. Conference is October 12-14 in Berkeley CA.
Implementing the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics Workshop – October 12 -14, 2012
Implementing the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics workshop is now taking registrations on the IM&E website. Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to learn about the standards from lead author of the CCSSM, Bill McCallum, as well as break-out sessions developed and led by classroom teachers at all grade levels. This workshop is intended for an audience of teachers, administrators, and district personnel. The workshop is from 3:30 on Friday October 12th – 1:30 on Sunday October 14th in Berkeley, California. If you have been waiting for Bill’s Common Core team to make it to the west coast, this is your chance!
Please register quickly as our previous workshops have sold out!
New blog registration feature
Now that I’ve moved the blog to a private hosting company, you can register to become a subscriber to the blog using the links on the right. This offers a bit more than the email subscription that has been available for a while. Becoming a subscriber means you can create a profile with some information about yourself, which will be available to people who read your comments (if you are logged in). It also gives you some (not many) controls over forum notifications. I may add more features as I discover them.
I will keep the current email notification feature for those who prefer to keep using that.
New forums
If you have questions about the standards, please ask them in the forums (you can also always access this from the menu bar above). The old thread with questions is here, but it is no longer possible to add comments. Before posting a question, please use each of the search bars to the right to see if has already been answered.
Possible outage on Thursday, July 26
I’m transferring this blog to another hosting service so that I can add some goodies (for example, I’d like to turn the general questions thread into a searchable forum); it might be down on Thursday, possibly for the whole day.
K–5 Progression on Geometric Measurement
Here is the draft measurement part of the geometry progression. As always, please post questions and comments here.
[29 July 2012] This thread is closed. You can ask questions here.
K–8 Publishers’ criteria released
Criteria for materials supporting implementation of the Common Core are now available at corestandards.org (go to the resources page to download the pdf, here is a direct link). They were written by the lead writers of the standards (Phil Daro, myself, and Jason Zimba). There’s an article about them by Erik Robelen at Education Week. A high school document, along with any revisions to the K–8 document resulting from public feedback, will be released early next year.
My talk on the Common Core at ICME 12 in Seoul, Korea
Here is the paper for a talk I gave on Wednesday at the International Congress on Mathematics Education in Seoul, Korea. It pulls together a number of things I’ve said in bits and pieces elsewhere.
Le nouveau elementary geometry progression est arrivée
And, as recompense for the long wait, we have added a bonus grade level, Grade 6. Here it is:
ccss_progression_gk6_2014_12_27
[Updated 2014/12/27]
Jason Zimba’s “wiring diagram”
In the article by Jason Zimba that I posted here, there were glimpses of a diagram showing connections between standards. A lot of people have asked me where the complete diagram is, so I prevailed upon Jason to make it available here, along with an introduction explaining what it is and is not intended to achieve. I would stress one point, since everybody so much wants to be reading the standards as curriculum, that it is not in any sense a diagram of curriculum, although it could be useful to curriculum designers.
UPDATE 10/29/2015 by Jason Zimba – The wiring diagram now exists as a more fully fledged digital tool called the “Coherence Map,” found at www.achievethecore.org/coherence-map. When you click the link, you will be able to navigate the content standards via their connections, and you will also see resources keyed to individual standards, such as relevant excerpts from the Progressions documents, tasks from Illustrative Mathematics, and other open resources (this feature is meant to grow over time).