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Assessment for Learning (Mary Martensen video)

Connections to Assessment

Mathematics Assessment Project - Tools for formative and summative assessment that make knowledge and reasoning visible, and help teachers to guide students in how to improve, and monitor their progress.

Classroom Challenges - Lessons for formative assessment, some focused on developing math concepts, others on non-routine problem solving.
Prototype Summative Assessments Tests - Designed to help teachers and students monitor their progress, these tests provide a model for examinations that may replace or complement current US tests.

Connections to Assessment

Mathematics Assessment Project - Tools for formative and summative assessment that make knowledge and reasoning visible, and help teachers to guide students in how to improve, and monitor their progress.

Classroom Challenges - Lessons for formative assessment, some focused on developing math concepts, others on non-routine problem solving.
Prototype Summative Assessments Tests - Designed to help teachers and students monitor their progress, these tests provide a model for examinations that may replace or complement current US tests.

Linda Levi

Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium

Achieve the Core - Resources, updates and other CCSS implementation tools.

Center on Instruction

Common Core Curriculum Templates - Templates for educators to use to map out the Mathematics Common Core State Standards (CCSS). These templates list all of the strands, standard/content statements, domains, and clusters based on the 2010 CCSS. Teachers have found these templates to be useful for creating pacing guides and/or curriculum maps.

Common Core Implementation Video Series for Mathematics - To aid states as they implement the Common Core State Standards (Standards)in Mathematics, the Hunt Institute and the Council of Chief State School Officers have commissioned a series of 17 videos explaining the Standards in Mathematics in far greater depth.

The Common Core in Mathematics: Overview - John B. King, Jr., New York State Commissioner of Education, introduces instructional strategies for successfully implementing the Common Core State Standards in Math. David Coleman, Contributing Author, Common Core State Standards, parallels the three main goals of the Common Core with successful international models and frames the six "shifts" in instruction in mathematics to be examined more thoroughly in following segments.

Common Core State Standards: Implementation Tools and Resources - The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) developed this list of tools and resources to point states to promising practices and tools to support Common Core State Standards implementation. The document primarily lists resources developed by CCSSO and the lead writers of the standards and is not intended to be a comprehensive list of all resources available.

Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics provides guidance to states, assessment consortia, testing companies, and curriculum developers by illustrating the range and types of mathematical work that students experience in a faithful implementation of the Common Core State Standards, and by publishing other tools that support implementation of the standards.

Sample tasks correlated with K-8 standards.

Instructional Alignment Chart Protocols - The Instructional Alignment Chart (IAC) from the Rhode Island Department of Education is one of the tools that can be used by educators to take a more focused look at the standards and gain insight into appropriate levels of instruction. It will aid in providing a forum for an ongoing collaborative study of the standards.

The Mathematics Common Core Toolbox - A resource site designed to support districts and schools working to meet the challenge and the opportunity of the CCSS. Find tools and instructional materials to help better understand and to implement the CCSS in Mathematics.

The site is broken into the following three sections:

Standards for Mathematical Practice - This section features Key Visualizations (animations) and Formative Assessment tools and tasks.
Standards for Mathematical Content - This secton features Key Visualizations (animations) that support the CCSS content standards.
Resources for Implementation - This section features Preparation for Implementation, Studying the Standards, and Sample Scope and Sequence.

The New Math Common Core - This is an introduction to the new common core for math. Produced by Anthony Graham for Madison City Schools.

Symbaloo - Websites and resources devoted to the Common Core.

Achieve the Core - Resources, updates and other CCSS implementation tools.

Center on Instruction

Common Core Curriculum Templates - Templates for educators to use to map out the Mathematics Common Core State Standards (CCSS). These templates list all of the strands, standard/content statements, domains, and clusters based on the 2010 CCSS. Teachers have found these templates to be useful for creating pacing guides and/or curriculum maps.

Common Core Implementation Video Series for Mathematics - To aid states as they implement the Common Core State Standards (Standards)in Mathematics, the Hunt Institute and the Council of Chief State School Officers have commissioned a series of 17 videos explaining the Standards in Mathematics in far greater depth.

The Common Core in Mathematics: Overview - John B. King, Jr., New York State Commissioner of Education, introduces instructional strategies for successfully implementing the Common Core State Standards in Math. David Coleman, Contributing Author, Common Core State Standards, parallels the three main goals of the Common Core with successful international models and frames the six "shifts" in instruction in mathematics to be examined more thoroughly in following segments.

Common Core State Standards: Implementation Tools and Resources - The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) developed this list of tools and resources to point states to promising practices and tools to support Common Core State Standards implementation. The document primarily lists resources developed by CCSSO and the lead writers of the standards and is not intended to be a comprehensive list of all resources available.

Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics provides guidance to states, assessment consortia, testing companies, and curriculum developers by illustrating the range and types of mathematical work that students experience in a faithful implementation of the Common Core State Standards, and by publishing other tools that support implementation of the standards.

Sample tasks correlated with K-8 standards.

Instructional Alignment Chart Protocols - The Instructional Alignment Chart (IAC) from the Rhode Island Department of Education is one of the tools that can be used by educators to take a more focused look at the standards and gain insight into appropriate levels of instruction. It will aid in providing a forum for an ongoing collaborative study of the standards.

The Mathematics Common Core Toolbox - A resource site designed to support districts and schools working to meet the challenge and the opportunity of the CCSS. Find tools and instructional materials to help better understand and to implement the CCSS in Mathematics.

The site is broken into the following three sections:

Standards for Mathematical Practice - This section features Key Visualizations (animations) and Formative Assessment tools and tasks.
Standards for Mathematical Content - This secton features Key Visualizations (animations) that support the CCSS content standards.
Resources for Implementation - This section features Preparation for Implementation, Studying the Standards, and Sample Scope and Sequence.

The New Math Common Core - This is an introduction to the new common core for math. Produced by Anthony Graham for Madison City Schools.

Symbaloo - Websites and resources devoted to the Common Core.

Achieve the Core - Resources, updates and other CCSS implementation tools.

Center on Instruction

Common Core Curriculum Templates - Templates for educators to use to map out the Mathematics Common Core State Standards (CCSS). These templates list all of the strands, standard/content statements, domains, and clusters based on the 2010 CCSS. Teachers have found these templates to be useful for creating pacing guides and/or curriculum maps.

Common Core Implementation Video Series for Mathematics - To aid states as they implement the Common Core State Standards (Standards)in Mathematics, the Hunt Institute and the Council of Chief State School Officers have commissioned a series of 17 videos explaining the Standards in Mathematics in far greater depth.

The Common Core in Mathematics: Overview - John B. King, Jr., New York State Commissioner of Education, introduces instructional strategies for successfully implementing the Common Core State Standards in Math. David Coleman, Contributing Author, Common Core State Standards, parallels the three main goals of the Common Core with successful international models and frames the six "shifts" in instruction in mathematics to be examined more thoroughly in following segments.

Common Core State Standards: Implementation Tools and Resources - The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) developed this list of tools and resources to point states to promising practices and tools to support Common Core State Standards implementation. The document primarily lists resources developed by CCSSO and the lead writers of the standards and is not intended to be a comprehensive list of all resources available.

Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics provides guidance to states, assessment consortia, testing companies, and curriculum developers by illustrating the range and types of mathematical work that students experience in a faithful implementation of the Common Core State Standards, and by publishing other tools that support implementation of the standards.

Sample tasks correlated with 9-12 standards.

Instructional Alignment Chart Protocols - The Instructional Alignment Chart (IAC) from the Rhode Island Department of Education is one of the tools that can be used by educators to take a more focused look at the standards and gain insight into appropriate levels of instruction. It will aid in providing a forum for an ongoing collaborative study of the standards.

The Mathematics Common Core Toolbox - A resource site designed to support districts and schools working to meet the challenge and the opportunity of the CCSS. Find tools and instructional materials to help better understand and to implement the CCSS in Mathematics.

The site is broken into the following three sections:

Standards for Mathematical Practice - This section features Key Visualizations (animations) and Formative Assessment tools and tasks.
Standards for Mathematical Content - This secton features Key Visualizations (animations) that support the CCSS content standards.
Resources for Implementation - This section features Preparation for Implementation, Studying the Standards, and Sample Scope and Sequence.

The New Math Common Core - This is an introduction to the new common core for math. Produced by Anthony Graham for Madison City Schools.

Symbaloo - Websites and resources devoted to the Common Core.

Teaching Channel Video: Common Core State Standards for Mathematics - A series of videos explaining the standards and giving classroom examples of Common Core math lessons.

Specific Teaching Channel Videos:
- Common Core State Standards: Elementary School- See how teaching to the Common Core affects classroom practice.

Teaching Channel Video: Common Core State Standards for Mathematics - A series of videos explaining the standards and giving classroom examples of Common Core math lessons.

Specific Teaching Channel Videos:
- Common Core State Standards: Middle School - See how teaching to the Common Core affects classroom practice.

Teaching Channel Video: Common Core State Standards for Mathematics - A series of videos explaining the standards and giving classroom examples of Common Core math lessons.

Specific Teaching Channel Videos:
- Common Core State Standards: High School - See how teaching to the Common Core affects classroom practice.

Algebra in the Real World - A DVD from The Futures Channel enabling you to show your students the excitement, the power, the range and the results of the applications of algebra in fascinating career fields. From astronomy to forestry, sports equipment design to saving endangered species, alternative energy to farming, algebra is shown in its vital role as the tool that allows us to create, to understand, and to improve our world.

The Futures Channel - Website consists of multimedia content which educators can use to enliven curriculum, engage students and otherwise enhance the learning experience; it allows teachers to connect mathematics, science, technology and engineering to the real world of careers and achievement, providing a context and purpose for what students are learning, allowing them to envision their own successful futures.

Algebra in the Real World - A DVD from The Futures Channel enabling you to show your students the excitement, the power, the range and the results of the applications of algebra in fascinating career fields. From astronomy to forestry, sports equipment design to saving endangered species, alternative energy to farming, algebra is shown in its vital role as the tool that allows us to create, to understand, and to improve our world.

The Futures Channel - Website consists of multimedia content which educators can use to enliven curriculum, engage students and otherwise enhance the learning experience; it allows teachers to connect mathematics, science, technology and engineering to the real world of careers and achievement, providing a context and purpose for what students are learning, allowing them to envision their own successful futures.

Algebra in the Real World - A DVD from The Futures Channel enabling you to show your students the excitement, the power, the range and the results of the applications of algebra in fascinating career fields. From astronomy to forestry, sports equipment design to saving endangered species, alternative energy to farming, algebra is shown in its vital role as the tool that allows us to create, to understand, and to improve our world.

The Futures Channel - Website consists of multimedia content which educators can use to enliven curriculum, engage students and otherwise enhance the learning experience; it allows teachers to connect mathematics, science, technology and engineering to the real world of careers and achievement, providing a context and purpose for what students are learning, allowing them to envision their own successful futures.

Improving Student Achievement in Mathematics by Addressing the Needs of English Language Learners (document available to NCSM members only)

Teaching for Understanding - in an elementary classroom (Jennifer Johnston video)

Medicine Dosage

icon Reflections on Factoring: The Process of Factoring, Factored Form, and Prime Quadratics

icon How Many Quadratic Factor?

icon Mystery Quadratic

icon Which Quadratics to Factor?

icon Solving, Graphing, and Factoring Quadratics

icon Solving, Graphing, and Factoring Quadratics: Teacher and PD Notes

icon Analyzing the Quadratic Formula

icon Factoring and Solving Quadratics: A Cluster of Related Tasks - PD Notes

Assessment for Learning by Margaret Heritage

California Kid-Friendly Standards - California State Department wrote content standards for grades K-5 in Mathematics in child-friendly language they can more readily understand. Standards available in English and Spanish.

Inside the Black Box: Raising Standards Through Classroom Assessment

Problem Based Instruction Task: Accessing children's prior knowledge (Jennifer Johnson video)

Understanding Formative Assessment & Why it Needs to Be a Priority for Every School with Dylan Wiliam - Learn how formative assessment has been proven to improve teacher effectiveness and student learning—and what this can mean for your school.

Assessment for Learning by Margaret Heritage

Inside the Black Box: Raising Standards Through Classroom Assessment

Understanding Formative Assessment & Why it Needs to Be a Priority for Every School with Dylan Wiliam - Learn how formative assessment has been proven to improve teacher effectiveness and student learning—and what this can mean for your school.

Assessment for Learning by Margaret Heritage

Inside the Black Box: Raising Standards Through Classroom Assessment

Understanding Formative Assessment & Why it Needs to Be a Priority for Every School with Dylan Wiliam - Learn how formative assessment has been proven to improve teacher effectiveness and student learning—and what this can mean for your school.

icon Reflections on Factoring

icon Analyzing the Functions Recommendations in the Mathematics Iowa Core

icon Comparing Functions

icon A Connected and Coherent Approach to Teaching Algebra: A Functions Approach to Teaching Algebra

icon Inverse Functions: Core Ideas

icon Reflections on Factoring

Resources for Teaching the Iowa Core Additional Standards in High School Mathematics

icon Inverse Functions: Core Ideas

Bringing the Common Core to Life - Ten video segments of David Colemen talking about the rationale for the structure of the common core curriculum - segment three gives his introduction to the math content standards and segment eight gives the rationale.

Common Core State Standards Resources - A collection of resources from Common Core State Standards Initiative.

Inside Mathematics - A professional resource for educators passionate about improving students' mathematics learning and performance. This site features classroom examples of innovative teaching methods and insights into student learning, tools for mathematics instruction that teachers can use immediately, and video tours of the ideas and materials on the site.

Tools for the Common Core Standards - News about tools that are being developed to support implementation of the Common Core State Standards.

Bringing the Common Core to Life - Ten video segments of David Colemen talking about the rationale for the structure of the common core curriculum - segment three gives his introduction to the math content standards and segment eight gives the rationale.

Common Core State Standards Resources - A collection of resources from Common Core State Standards Initiative.

Inside Mathematics - A professional resource for educators passionate about improving students' mathematics learning and performance. This site features classroom examples of innovative teaching methods and insights into student learning, tools for mathematics instruction that teachers can use immediately, and video tours of the ideas and materials on the site.

Mary Martensen

Tools for the Common Core Standards - News about tools that are being developed to support implementation of the Common Core State Standards.

Bringing the Common Core to Life - Ten video segments of David Colemen talking about the rationale for the structure of the common core curriculum - segment three gives his introduction to the math content standards and segment eight gives the rationale.

Common Core State Standards Resources - A collection of resources from Common Core State Standards Initiative.

Inside Mathematics - A professional resource for educators passionate about improving students' mathematics learning and performance. This site features classroom examples of innovative teaching methods and insights into student learning, tools for mathematics instruction that teachers can use immediately, and video tours of the ideas and materials on the site.

Tools for the Common Core Standards - News about tools that are being developed to support implementation of the Common Core State Standards.

Using the Characteristic of Effective Instruction in planning a lesson - (Megan Balong/Josh Wilkinson video)

Dan Meyer: Math class needs a makeover - Dan Meyer shows classroom-tested math exercises that prompt students to stop and think.

Student-centered classroom - Student communication to explain and justify solutions (Jennifer Johnston video)

Dan Meyer: Math class needs a makeover - Dan Meyer shows classroom-tested math exercises that prompt students to stop and think.

Teaching for Understanding in a Student-Centered Classroom (Mary Martensen video)

Dan Meyer: Math class needs a makeover - Dan Meyer shows classroom-tested math exercises that prompt students to stop and think.

Student Engagement in a High School Math Classroom (Megan Balong/Josh Wilkinson video)

Key Instruction Shifts of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics - Provides content emphasis by cluster for each grade level. For each grade level clusters are broken down by major clusters, supporting clusters and additional clusters.

Investigating the Standards: Information for Principals - Users must establish an account to access materials. Once an account has been established, click on "Exploring the Iowa Core Through Collaborative Learning Teams," then click on "Investigating The Iowa Core Standards for Principals."

icon Meaningful Distributed Practice Planning: Graphing Linear Equations & Solving Linear Systems

Solving Linear Equations

icon Text Messaging Problem: An Application of Systems of Linear Equations

icon Graphic Logs: Quake Story

icon Logarithms: Core Ideas

icon Logarithms: Examples of Gentle Gradual Development Through Meaningful Distributed Practice

icon Meaningful Distributed Practice-Concept: Exponents and Logarithms

Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics provides guidance to states, assessment consortia, testing companies, and curriculum developers by illustrating the range and types of mathematical work that students experience in a faithful implementation of the Common Core State Standards, and by publishing other tools that support implementation of the standards.

Sample tasks correlated with K-8 standards.

Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics provides guidance to states, assessment consortia, testing companies, and curriculum developers by illustrating the range and types of mathematical work that students experience in a faithful implementation of the Common Core State Standards, and by publishing other tools that support implementation of the standards.

Sample tasks correlated with K-8 standards.

Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics provides guidance to states, assessment consortia, testing companies, and curriculum developers by illustrating the range and types of mathematical work that students experience in a faithful implementation of the Common Core State Standards, and by publishing other tools that support implementation of the standards.

Sample tasks correlated with 9-12 standards.

icon Golf Ball Bounces

Sets, Logic, and Internet Searches

Skydiving Math

Text Messaging

icon Solving Linear Equations - Multiple Methods and Representations

Ferris Wheel

Draft Math Progressions - The Common Core State Standards in mathematics were built on progressions: narrative documents describing the progression of a topic across a number of grade levels, informed both by research on children's cognitive development and by the logical structure of mathematics. As they are being fine-tuned, they will be posted on this website.

icon Analyzing and Reporting Student Performance and Implementation Data - Structured Response Sheet (sample)

Improving Student Achievement in Mathematics by Leading Effective and Collaborative Teams of Mathematics Teachers - The document is the last one on the page. (document available to NCSM members only)

icon Analyzing and Reporting Student Performance and Implementation Data - Structured Response Sheet (sample)

Improving Student Achievement in Mathematics by Leading Effective and Collaborative Teams of Mathematics Teachers - The document is the last one on the page. (document available to NCSM members only)

icon Analyzing and Reporting Student Performance and Implementation Data - Structured Response Sheet (sample)

Improving Student Achievement in Mathematics by Leading Effective and Collaborative Teams of Mathematics Teachers - The document is the last one on the page. (document available to NCSM members only)

Proof with Multiple Representaions (Fido Problem)

icon Reflections on Factoring: The Process of Factoring, Factored Form, and Prime Quadratics

icon How Many Quadratic Factor?

icon Mystery Quadratic

icon Which Quadratics to Factor?

icon Solving, Graphing, and Factoring Quadratics

icon Solving, Graphing, and Factoring Quadratics: Teacher and PD Notes

icon Analyzing the Quadratic Formula

icon Factoring and Solving Quadratics: A Cluster of Related Tasks - PD Notes

Teacher Planning to Teach for Understanding (Eric Hart video) - What important questions should teachers ask themselves as they plan and prepare to teach for understanding?

Medicine Dosage

icon Analyzing and Reporting Student Performance and Implementation Data - Structured Response Sheet

Sets, Logic, and Internet Searches

Candy Quality Control

icon Solving Linear Equations - Multiple Methods and Representations

Candy Quality Control

icon Housing Data Analysis

Text Messaging

icon Evidence of Iowa Teaching Standards in Math Classroom: Observation Sheet Sample

For Principals ONLY!

Iowa Teaching Standards & Criteria

icon Leadership Role in Creating an Effective Mathematics Classroom: PowerPoint - Be sure to view the information in the notes section of each slide.

icon Picturing the Iowa Teaching Standards in the Mathematics Classroom

icon Evidence of Iowa Teaching Standards in Math Classroom: Observation Sheet Sample

For Principals ONLY!

Iowa Teaching Standards & Criteria

icon Leadership Role in Creating an Effective Mathematics Classroom: PowerPoint - Be sure to view the information in the notes section of each slide.

icon Picturing the Iowa Teaching Standards in the Mathematics Classroom

icon Evidence of Iowa Teaching Standards in Math Classroom: Observation Sheet Sample

For Principals ONLY!

Iowa Teaching Standards & Criteria

icon Leadership Role in Creating an Effective Mathematics Classroom: PowerPoint - Be sure to view the information in the notes section of each slide.

icon Picturing the Iowa Teaching Standards in the Mathematics Classroom

Professional Development Modules to help teachers with the new pedagogical challenges that formative assessment presents from the Mathematics Assessment Project.

Leadership and Learning Center Webinars - The Leadership and Learning website provides links to several webinars - downloads of audio, video, and handouts. Topics include John Hattie's research on what works best in classrooms and how you can be sure that what you are doing will have the greatest impact on student learning; Doug Reeves on both the latest research and observations about how teachers and administrators can make the most effective use of student data; and how to implement the Common Core standards effectively.

Reflections on Practice: Perimeter and Area Through the Van Hiele Model - (document available to NCTM members only)

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