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MATHEMATICS
DEPARTMENT UPDATE
TRINA GILLET
SUPERVISOR OF MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE
• Partnership for Assessment of Readiness
for College and Career (PARCC)
• Common Core State Standards
• Curriculum work and assessments
• Algebra
• Next steps
PARCC Guidelines:
Problems worth doing –
Multi-step and contextual
In-depth Focus
Major content and fluency
expectations
Intensity
Going “deeper” –
connecting content and
math practices
CCSS REQUIRED SHIFTS
• Focus
• Major grade-level content
• Coherence
• Linking of major topics within and across grades
• Rigor
• Conceptual understanding, procedural skill and
fluency, and application
STANDARDS PROGRESSION
K
1
2
3
4
Geometry
5
6
7
8
Measurement and Data
Statistics and Probability
Number and Operations in Base Ten
The Number System
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Expressions and Equations
Counting
and
Cardinality
Number and OperationsFractions
Ratios and
Proportional
Relationships
Functions
DELIBERATE APPROACH
• Adopting Instructional Materials
• 2012-13 Go Math! K-2
• 2013-14 Go Math! Grades 3-6
• Curriculum Revision
• Summer 2013
• Kindergarten, grade 1 and grade 2
• Grade 7, grade 8 and Algebra I
• Summer 2014
• Grade 3, grade 4, grade 5 and grade 6
• Assessment development and on-going data
analysis
• Three times a year K-8 and Algebra I
ALGEBRA
• Importance of Algebra
• Cornerstone of secondary
mathematics
• College and career success
• Thoughtful consideration for
placement “access for all”
IMPROVING ALGEBRAIC THINKING
• Understand patterns,
relations and functions
• Represent and analyze
mathematical situations
and structures using
algebraic symbols
• Use math models to
represent and understand
quantitative relationships
ALGEBRA READINESS
• Timing and cognitive development
• Capacity for higher-level thought processes,
organizational skills and maturity
• Transition from concrete to abstract
• Multiple measures of data
NEXT STEPS
• Analyzing data at every grade
level
• Ensuring Algebraic readiness
throughout all grades
• Adjusting curriculum appropriately
based on student performance