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Common Core Standards for Mathematical Practice (Part II)
This is Part Two of a three part article [Part One] which provides the description of each of the Standards for Mathematical Practice as written in the Common Core math standards. It discusses aspects of each SMP that can be interpreted along conventional or traditional approaches to math teaching and contrasts this with how each [...]
Common Core Standards for Mathematical Practice (Part I)
This is Part One of a three part article which provides the description of each of the Standards for Mathematical Practice as written in the Common Core math standards. It discusses aspects of each SMP that can be interpreted along conventional or traditional approaches to math teaching and contrasts this with how each one may [...]
Math Misadventures With the Common Core
The Common Core makes for strange bedfellows. I found myself resonating with Mark Rice who wrote about the Common Core at The Huffington Post; a publication where I rarely agree with commentary provided. Rice is a professor and chair of the Department of American Studies at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, NY. Rice wrote [...]
Sandra Stotsky Offers ELA Standards for States to Adopt
Dr. Sandra Stotsky, professor of education reform at the University of Arkansas, offered to any state or school district a set of model standards that they can use as a English Language Arts curriculum framework as option if they would rather not use the Common Core State Standards. Dr. Stotsky is known for her involvement [...]
Where’s Math Content and Skills?
One of our partners emailed this following poster to us that was hung up in a Middle School classroom where he substitute taught. In this particular district one of the school principals told the math teachers that these are the Common Core State Standards for math. He noted that these standards of mathematical practice are [...]
Common Core Science Standards Up for Public Comment
CNN reported last month that the Common Core Science Standards or “Next Generation Science Standards” were going to be coming out. If you step into a high school chemistry class late next year, the students might be learning the same thing. But they could be manipulating foam or paper mache models to show how bonds [...]
The Common Core and Gingerbread Curriculum
Students in New York are treated to the New York Common Core Gingerbread Curriculum. It may be delicious, but how much are kids learning?
