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Tagged as: CCSS
These resources deal with the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSSM).
Series: About Early Math
Five 3s or Three 5s, the Common Core Questions Continue
March 21, 2016
This article from Scientific American dissects one of many homework assignments that have outraged parents recently, often with blame falling to the Common Core State Standards.
- Age/Grade Level: 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
- Tags CCSS, Common Core
Series: About Early Math December 7, 2015
Math in School Shaped by Politics
The over-politicization of math education is a major cause for United States students' ongoing struggles with math in school.
- Age/Grade Level: 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, Kindergarten, Pre-K
- Tags CCSS, Common Core
Series: Hear from the Experts November 18, 2015
Selecting Common Core Instructional Materials with Diane Briars
What is the quality of the instructional activities that students will be engaged with everyday? Diane Briars explores this question.
- Age/Grade Level: 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, Kindergarten, Pre-K
- Tags CCSS, Common Core, Diane Briars
Series: Hear from the Experts November 16, 2015
Learning Goals in the Common Core with Diane Briars
Diane Briars differentiates between the learning goals of a particular lesson and the Common Core State Standards associated with it.
- Age/Grade Level: 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, Kindergarten, Pre-K
- Tags CCSS, Common Core, Diane Briars, Planning
Series: Hear from the Experts May 20, 2015
Developmentally Appropriate Practice Possible within Common Core
In this video from NAEYC (National Association for the Education of Young Children), Executive Director Rhian Evans Allvin describes their new white paper about developmentally appropriate practice within Common Core State Standards.
- Tags CCSS, Common Core, NAEYC
Series: About Early Math May 11, 2015
Rote Memorization Hinders Math Performance
Results from PISA suggest that the highest achievers are the students who view math as a set of large, connected concepts, while those who utilize rote memorization for math facts and procedures are the lowest-achieving.
- Age/Grade Level: 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, Kindergarten, Pre-K
- Tags CCSS, Common Core
Series: Hear from the Experts October 15, 2014
Making Sense of Mathematics
When teaching students math, we often do so in a way that doesn't help them make sense of the subject. We teach the steps to take to get an answer, rather helping them understand why those are the steps to take.
- Tags CCSS, Common Core, Phil Daro
Series: Hear from the Experts October 15, 2014
Learning Progressions in Math Go in Different Directions
While many believe that students learn math on a straight-forward, linear path, they actually pull ideas from many different sources when completing a problem. The challenge for the teacher, then, is to take these students, all in different places, and help them reach the agreed-upon standards.
- Tags CCSS, Common Core, Phil Daro
Series: Hear from the Experts October 15, 2014
A Broken Curriculum: Math Education in United States
Phil Daro explains that the main cause behind the United States' lagging academic performance, particularly in math education, is not the students, the teachers, or the schools, but rather the curriculum, specifically in its attempt to cover too much material.
- Tags CCSS, Common Core, Phil Daro
Series: About Early Math August 5, 2014
Teacher Support Needed for Common Core Success
This article from The New York Times looks in depth at the United States' less-than-perfect history of math education reforms and suggests that for any reform to be truly successful, stronger teacher support is necessary.
- Tags CCSS, Common Core
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