# Category Archives: Uncategorized

## EDC course on the mathematical practices for high school teachers

Here’s a note from Al Cuoco: Friends, For the past two years, we’ve been working with support from the MA department of education to create a course for high school teachers that helps them implement the Standards for Mathematical Practice. … Continue reading

## Grant Wiggins on Granularity

Grant Wiggins has a great post about the dangers of breaking the standards down into statements of the finest possible grain size: This problem of turning everything into “microstandards” is a problem of long standing in education. One might even … Continue reading

## Parent Resources on Tools Page

Click on Tools (above) to see links to resources aimed at helping parents better understand the Common Core.

## Units, a Unifying Idea in Measurement, Fractions, and Base Ten

Think about a 4-by-5 rectangle. The rectangle contains infinitely many points$—$you could never count them. But once you decide that a 1-by-1 square is going to be “one unit of area,” you are able to say that a 4-by-5 … Continue reading

## Attend to the verbs in the Mathematical Practices

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Dev Sinha, a mathematician from the University of Oregon who is working with Illustrative Mathematics. Dev recently attend a meeting of Illustrative Mathematics devoted to elaborating the practice standards at different grade … Continue reading

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## To B or not to B

Once every few months or so I receive a message about the following standard: 6.G.2. Find the volume of a right rectangular prism with fractional edge lengths by packing it with unit cubes of the appropriate unit fraction edge lengths, … Continue reading

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## Mathematics teaching community website

I just attended in interesting talk at the Joint Math Meetings in San Diego about a project started by Sybilla Beckmann, the Mathematics Teaching Community. It’s a place where you can post and answer questions about all aspects of mathematics … Continue reading

## Illustrative Mathematics now plays nice with search engines

One of the enhancements in the last release of Illustrative Mathematics was making the site crawlable by search engine bots. As a result, you can, for example, google “illustrations for A-SSE” and get direct links to the tasks that illustrate … Continue reading