Original presentation by:

Brian Cohen

bcohen@fmschools.org

Unpacking the NYS Common Core Standards for Mathematical Content

She tried groups of 3, but there was 1 leftover.She tried groups of 4, but there was 1 leftover.She tried groups of 5, but there was 1 leftover.

How many eggs did Farmer Brown collect that morning?

A Farmer Story

Problem taken from Mary Alteri

Farmer Brown went out to collect eggs from the henhouse one morning. She noticed that she had fewer than 6 dozen eggs.

When she packaged them for sale, she put them in groups of 2, but there was 1 leftover.

How many eggs could Farmer Brown have collected that morning?

A Farmer Story

Problem taken from Mary Alteri

Farmer Brown went out to collect eggs from the henhouse one morning. She noticed that she had fewer than 1 dozen eggs.

When she packaged them for sale, she put them in groups of 2, but there was 1 leftover.

She tried groups of 5, but there was 1 leftover.

How many eggs did Farmer Brown collect that morning?

A Farmer Story

Problem taken from Mary Alteri

Farmer Brown went out to collect eggs from the henhouse one morning. She noticed that she had fewer than 1 dozen eggs.

When she packaged them for sale, she put them in groups of 2, but there was 1 leftover.

How many eggs could Farmer Brown have collected that morning?

A Farmer Story

Problem taken from Mary Alteri

Farmer Brown went out to collect eggs from the henhouse one morning. She noticed that she had fewer than 3 dozen eggs.

Farmer brown also noticed that when she packaged them in groups of 2, or groups of 3, or groups of 4 there were no eggs leftover.

Common Core – Math Practices

Were any of the Mathematical Practices embedded within the Farmer Brown problem?

A Farmer Story

Brian Cohen

April 2009 - New York, along with 50 other states and territories, agrees to participate in the national dialogue to develop these voluntary standards.

Sept. 2009 - First draft released for public feedback.  

June 2010 - The final Common Core State Standards (CCSS) were unveiled. States began adopting them immediately.  States were required to adopt the CCSS word-for-word, but were allowed to add up to 15% more standards in each subject area to accommodate individual state concerns and preferences.

July 2010 - NYS officially adopts the CCSS for Mathematics and for ELA, pending any additions to be developed by a workgroup of practitioners.

Jan. 2011 - NYS approves the additions (one in grades K & 1) and makes the CCSS, plus the NYS additions (modified version known as NYS P-12 CCLS) the new state standards.

How did we get here?

What is still to come?

Common Core – Instructional Shifts (NYS)

Common Core – Instructional Shifts (NYS)Shift 1 -Focus

“…significantly narrow and deepen the scope of how time and energy is spent… in order to focus deeply on only the concepts that are prioritized in the standards…”

Shift 2 - Coherence

“…students can build new understanding onto foundations built in previous years.”

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Shift 3 -Fluency

“Students are expected to have speed and accuracy with simple calculations… so that they are more able to understand and manipulate more complex concepts.”

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Shift 4 -Deep Understanding

“…support students’ ability to access concepts from a number of perspectives… applying them to new situations as well as writing and speaking about their understanding.”

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Shift 5 -Applications

“…choose the appropriate concept for application even when they are not prompted to do so… apply math concepts in ‘real world’ situations.”

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Shift 6 -Dual Intensity

“practice and understanding”“drills and… extended application of math concepts”

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Phil Daro, one of the lead authors

Clip from Pearson webinar (Feb. 2011) - http://commoncore.pearsoned.com/index.cfm?locator=PS1324

What are we here to do today?

Obviously, our conclusions will not be ‘official’ answers, but we won’t get official answers before we start teaching these standards. This process is meant to help us all think about the standards and make sense of them in the same way we want our students to make sense of math.

Get Messy – This will be difficult and it will be frustrating at times. But before we can figure out how we are going to teach the new standards we need to figure out what the new standards mean.

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Logistics

Kindergarten Center Admin. Conference Room

Grade 1 Hall Conference Room

Grade 2 Admin. Conference Room

Grade 3 Center Admin. Conf. Room

Grade 4 Center Admin. Conf. Room

Grade 5 Distance Learning Center

Grade 6 Distance Learning Center

Grade 7 Henry Large

Grade 8 Henry Large

Lunch: 12:00 – 12:30

Wrap-up: 2:45 – 3:00 (in your grade-level team)

Wiki Access: You will receive an email with access information on or shortly after December, 7.