I'm currently taking an online course about the Common Core mathematical practice standards and I came across a resource that I wanted to share. Inside Mathematics is a great site that will help you understand what the standards mean, specifically at your grade level, and give you ideas and examples (including videos) of how you can better include the standards into your classroom. I liked this site because it had examples of actual teachers using the suggested strategies which made it much more user friendly.
I always spend the first week of school getting to know my students and practicing low stress skills like vocabulary. I would like to use that week next year to teach them about the Common Core mathematical practice standards. I'm thinking of the week as an in-service training for my students. We are currently implementing Thinking Maps and AVID on my campus so I figured that I would spend my first week getting to know my students by teaching them about these focus topics for the year.
Well, it's back to class for me, so I'll send you more good things soon!
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