If you have general questions about the standards, ask them in a comment on this post. I can’t guarantee being able to answer all of them quickly, but by now there is a fairly large community of readers of this blog, some of whom might be able to answer questions, and I’ll be sure to keep an eye on it. I’m making this post sticky so it stays at the top of the front page.
Here is a video of Phil Daro calling for a change in classroom habits of how we teach students to solve problems. Great quote, from Phil’s daughter: “Daddy, I don’t have time to understand it, I just want to get it right on the test.”
On April 30th at 2:00pm eastern Bill will be doing a webinar on the Common Core Mathematics Standards and the Concept of Focus. I will also talk about Illustrative Mathematics and our work with CCSSO’s Math SCASS. Registration is here.
Here is the progression on high school Statistics and Probability. As usual, comments welcome, and make sure you are using an up-to-date pdf reader.
The workshop from May 25 – 27 in New Orleans: Focus in the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics, is full and no longer accepting registrations. If you are interested in attending a similar workshop in the future stay tuned to this blog for information about an upcoming fall workshop dates and location TBA.
This is just to let everyone know that the reduced fee registration for the May conference: Focus in the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics, is extended until April 15th. This conference from May 25-27 will encourage participants to not only understand the big picture of the CCSSM but understand focus domains, and go into depth in these particular topics at each grade level. Break out sessions will be available at lower elementary, upper elementary, middle school, and high school levels.
Here is the information page and registration.
Some of you may have noticed this already, but we have just gone live with a major redesign of the Illustrative Mathematics website. Take a look and let us know what you think. In addition to the new look, we have reached a milestone of 400 illustrative tasks. The new comment feature is attracting interest as well. And the FAQ section will be kept up to date with answers to all your burning questions.
I know somebody is going to ask about printing tasks. We don’t have that yet, but are working on it!
