Math Tools Now Available for All Grades
Hand-picked by the teacher-writers of our forthcoming math curriculum. Please check them out!
Mathematics
Introducing the newest Curriculum Maps from Common Core: A Story of Units
If the success of our Curriculum Maps in English Language Arts has demonstrated anything, it’s the profound need for equivalent materials in mathematics. We are delighted to announce that exemplars of Common Core’s upcoming Math Maps are now available for free download.
Over the past year, our teacher-writers have been collaborating with distinguished mathematicians to design and draft what will be the most comprehensive set of CCSS-based mathematics curriculum materials available anywhere.
- Our maps are sequenced and paced to support the teaching of mathematics as an unfolding story that follows the logic of mathematics itself.
- They embody the instructional “shifts” and the standards for mathematical practice demanded by the CCSS.
- Each map contains a sequence of lessons that combine conceptual understanding, fluency, and application to meet the demands of the topic.
- Formative assessments are included to support data-driven instruction.
See for yourself. We hope you will download the materials and share your impressions with us.
- Grade K Exemplar NEW • A 30-day unit on “Numbers 10-20; Count to 100 by Ones and Tens”
- Grade 2 Exemplar A 25-day unit on “Place Value, Counting, and Comparison of Numbers to 1000”
- Grade 3 Exemplar NEW • A 35-day unit on “Fractions as Numbers on the Number Line”
- Grade 5 Exemplar A 22-day unit on “Addition and Subtraction of Fractions”
Common Core is working with the New York State Education Department to produce these materials based on the Common Core Learning Standards (CCLS), NY’s version of the CCSS. The framing documents listed below and the CCLS-based version of our mathematics maps are taken from that project.
Common Core will also be producing a CCSS-based version, A Story of Units, for use in other states. These materials will be available both online and in print to be published by Jossey-Bass/Wiley.
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News
February 20 • In this Education Week webinar Lynne Munson talks about how the arts can play a powerful role in CCSS implementation. To register for the archived webinar, sign in here. Or view Lynne’s PowerPoint where she unveils high school-level TDQs comparing two works of art.
February 11 • This morning on Rick Hess’s Straight Up blog is a “thoughtful conversation” he had with Student Achievement Partners Founding Member Jason Zimba on CCSS, math in particular. Lynne Munson commented on the interview, and her views also can be read in today’s Common Core blog
December 17 • Check out Education Week’s article “Arts Education Seen as Common-Core Partner.” Education Week
July 18 • Common Core has announced that the New York State Department of Education has awarded the organization a third contract to develop 6th-12th grade mathematics curriculum and corresponding professional development aligned to New York State’s Common Core Learning Standards (CCLS). News release.
May 7 • Common Core receives glowing reviews for professional development offered in Beaufort County, NC. Read the full story in the Washington Daily News.
April 25 • Common Core’s Lynne Munson comments on the pressures of high stakes testing and the effect it can have on student learning in Roberta Munoz’s article “Make it of Break it: High Stakes Testing Pros and Cons” on Education.com
April 4 • Common Core has announced that the New York State Department of Education has awarded it two contracts to develop
Pre-Kindergarten-5th grade mathematics curriculum aligned to NY State’s Common Core Learning Standards (CCLS). News release.
April 3 • Common Core Creating Math Maps for New York State. News release.
March 27 • Common Core has announced that it is developing a series of CCSS-aligned K-8 curriculum maps in history and geography. News release.
March 21 • Check out Education Week’s coverage of Common Core’s “Truant From Schools: History, Science, and Art” event!
March 15 • Common Core releases data showing curriculum narrowing affecting all students.
March 9 • Common Core celebrates Virginia’s decision to abandon SB185, a bill that would have eliminated state mandated science and social studies testing for third graders. You can read more about this issue, and Common Core’s advocacy work, in this recent blog entry.
December 8 • Check out Education Week’s coverage of Common Core’s recent national survey of school teachers.
November 14 • Read Lynne Munson’s response to the latest NAEP results. Joanne Jacobs’s “Linking and Thinking on Education” and the Core Knowledge blog also highlighted her piece.