Tag: Common Core Math Standards
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 [...]
New Florida Law in Conflict with Common Core?
Florida Governor Rick Scott signed a law that makes Algebra II an optional course for pursuing a “standard” diploma which is contrary to the Common Core.
Common Core Math Problems
Jane Robbins sent me some Common Core Math problems that she had obtained from an elementary school in the Metro Atlanta area. We’ll let these speak for themselves.
Glenn Beck Outs the Common Core
Glenn Beck today highlighted the Common Core on his show on The Blaze TV. His guests were Emmett McGroarty of American Principles Project, Sherena Arrington, a political consultant from Georgia, and two teachers from Utah, David Cox and Christel Swasey. Beck in his opening remarks gave a wake-up call for those who may be apathetic [...]
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 [...]
Math U See Touts Common Core Alignment
My wife received an email about Math U See yesterday that announced that they are aligned with the Common Core. Math U See is another popular math curriculum for homeschooling families (one my family has used for years). On their website they tout: We welcome the emphasis in the Common Core State Standards Initiative on [...]
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 [...]
Children for Sale
By Alyson Williams No more decisions behind closed doors! Let’s get everyone talking about Common Core. In the spring of 2011 I received a receipt for the sale of my children. It came in the form of a flyer that simply notified me that my state and thereby my children’s school would comply with the [...]
