Workshop Materials & Links
Jim Olsen, Western Illinois University ~ 1/3/2014 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Note: Find-in-page is a very important tool - for the browser, PDF reader, Word. Control+f usually works.
Desmos - https://www.desmos.com/ - free online graphing calculator (which runs on an iPad)
The "Big 3" Documents (my opinion)
- Common Core State Standards for Mathematics - Original
- PARCC Model Content Frameworks for Mathematics (PDF) - Grades 3-11. Overview ~ Frameworks browser
- Assessment Blueprints and Test Specifications ("evidence tables") - for the PBA (Performance Based Assessment), MYA (Mid-Year Assessment, and EOY (End Of Year)
Some PARCC terminology: PARCC does have a Glossary.
- PBA=Performance Based Assessment (at 75% point);
- EOY=End Of Year (at 90% point);
- "Evidence tables" were written for item writers, but released to the public, and are useful to teachers;
- Model Content Frameworks: the "guiding documents that serve as a bridge between the Common Core State Standards and the PARCC;
- There are 5 subclaims (A-E);
- There are 3 task (item) types on the PARCC (I, II, III).
- "Securely held content" is (important :-) content from a previous grade that is tested again in a later grade (perhaps as part of a larger context) - See PARCC Model Content Frameworks and page 84 of the CCSSM.
assessments"
Frosted Cake Investigation A-CED.1, F-BF.1
Congruence via transformations - 8.G.2 and G-CO.6. Learnist Board: Interactive Apps for Geometry Transformations. Geogebra - free dynamic geometry (and algebra) program. Great for transformations.
- What conclusions can we make regarding transformations (reflections, translations, and rotations) and combining them?
Transformation Task - Can you find a series of transformations (reflections, translations, and/or rotations) that can take one shape to the other shape? Use the following images. Try it in Geogebra. You can import images into
Number Line Generator - great tool for making custom number lines (for use on worksheets, SmartBoard, web, assessments, etc.). Also, here is a Word doc with a few number lines which can be copied and pasted. 4NumberLines document.
Percent: 24 Percent Tweets (Learnist Boards with SlideShares and Quizlet decks) - 24 useful things to know about percents and how they are used in the real-world. Explanations, examples, and practice. 7.RP.3 and high school algebra (relates strongly to exponential functions).
See the Links section (under Resources) of my main Common Core Page.
There are many providers of good problems and tasks (listed in the Links section). Three of the main providers are (all of these are searchable, so some degree or another, by standard):
- The Mathematics Assessment Project (MAP) developed by the Shell Center/MARS, and others. Task Collection.
- Illustrative Mathematics Project - illustrativemathematics.org/
- InsideMathematics tasks - Good source to find tasks and lessons. Note: The POM's ('Problems of the Month') have different levels (of difficulty), so many are useful for differentiated instruction. Click here (zip file) for the teacher notes and answers to the POM's. Site also has classroom examples and videos.
CCSSmath.org Resources - This is a great site because you can search by standard and it combines many other resources. Click the grade level or HS conceptual category, then click the standard, and you are take to a list of activities for that standard. Activities come from Dan Meyer, MAP, NCTM, IXL, Texas Instruments, and more. Very nice! Home/front page.
Progressions Documents - New ones have been added.
Learnist Boards
- Basic facts: Learn the Basic Facts Using Multiplication.com or Online Games and Practice for Learning the Basic Arithmetic Facts
- Percent: 24 Percent Tweets - 24 useful things to know about percents and how they are used in the real-world. Explanations, examples, and practice.
- Mental Math Apps and Sites
- Interactive Apps for Geometry Transformations
Illinois - Illinois Model Curriculum, Illinois Model Curriculum LiveBinder.
Congruence Using Transformation Videos - Demonstrating G-CO.6 (also 8.G.2) (with Geogebra)
- Congruence Using Transformations -Demonstrate G-CO.6
- Congruence Using Transformations -Demonstrate G-CO.6 with a Reflection
Video - My fellow fractions!! Passionate activist rises up and demands equity for all numbers, including fractions and decimals. (number line ;-) See also number rights, which has a learner and teacher guide.
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James R. Olsen, Western Illinois University
E-mail: jr-olsen@wiu.edu
updated
January 2, 2014