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Common Core State Standards

The Common Core State Standards are a clear set of shared goals and expectations for the knowledge and skills students need in English language arts and mathematics at each grade level so they can be prepared to succeed in college, career, and life.​

If you would like more information about how the Common Core Standards were created, to explore the standards, or information for parents plush more, please visit the website linked below.  

Common Core Math Standards

There were three main shifts in the Common Core Math Standards compared to the previous standards, they are as follows:​ 

1. ​​Greater focus on fewer topics
2. Coherence: Linking topics and thinking across grades
3. Rigor: Pursue conceptual understanding, procedural skills and fluency, and application with equal intensity

To look at the California Common Core State Standards, please click the link to the right.  
Below is a quick overview about how to understand the components of the standards. 

In my experience, the major shift going to Common Core Standards are not as much what we teach, but how we teach.  The Standards for Mathematical Practice are a major component of HOW we teach math.  We have shifted from teaching a process and getting the right answer to being about to the the eight things seen in the image below.  Blogging allows to let students:

1. share their process in sense making along with their successes and struggles. 
2. go back and forth from abstract to quantitative representations.
3. construct and critique the reasoning of others
4. share their visual mathematical models
5. talk about what tools they used and why
6. be precise in their mathematical communication
7. share their structure and see the structure from another perspective
8. discuss repeated reasoning

Blogging is one way in which we can support the Standards for Mathematical Practice.

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