Related Links

CCSS (Common Core State Standards)
CCSSO (Council of Chief State School Officers)
Inside Mathematics
Noyce Foundation
Shell Center/MARS

CCSS Curriculum Analysis Tool and Professional Development Materials

Led by Bill Bush, University of Louisville, and initiated at the request of Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), this project is developing tools for assessing the potential of curriculum materials to support students' attainment of the CCSS, including the Standards for Mathematical Practice. The tools, and supporting professional development materials, will be disseminated by CCSSO and NCSM.

Links:
Professional Development for CCSSM Curriculum Analysis Reviewers
Common Core State Standards (CCSS) Mathematics Curriculum Materials Analysis Project

NCSM Great Tasks for Mathematics

This project is a collection of tasks to support implementation of the CCSS. Many of these tasks are drawn from existing sources. Each task includes:

  • Teacher Notes that provide an overview of the task, the Common Core State Standards Content and Practices standards that the task requires
  • Activity Launch that addresses key prerequisite understandings and assesses student readiness for the task
  • Core Task with which students are expected, individually and collaboratively, to wrestle
  • Extension Activities

Links:
Sample Task: Bugs, Giraffes, Elephants, and More

Materials from the Mathematics Assessment Project (MAP)

The Mathematics Assessment Project (MAP) developed by the Shell Center/MARS, University of Nottingham and University of California, Berkeley through funding from the Gates Foundation, is producing well-engineered formative and summative assessment tools to support U.S. schools in implementing the CCSS. These tools are designed to make knowledge and reasoning visible, and help teachers to guide students in how to improve, and monitor their progress.

Links:

20 ready-to-use Lesson Units for Formative Assessment for high school, cross-referenced to CCSS content and practices standards. Ultimately, the site will contain 20 Lesson Units per grade for grades 7-12. Click on Lessons or Standards to get started.

Draft summative assessments, aimed at "College- and Career-Readiness," presented in two forms:

  1. a Task Collection with each task cross-referenced to the CCSS
  2. a set of Prototype Test Forms showing how the tasks might be assembled into balanced assessments

MAP is also developing Professional Development Modules to help teachers with the new pedagogical challenges that formative assessment presents. The first sets of materials are currently undergoing trials and will appear on the MAP site shortly. MAP materials, unless stated otherwise, are free to be downloaded for non-commercial use.

NCSM Illustrating Mathematical Practices

These ready-to-use professional development materials are designed to help teachers understand the Standards for Mathematical Practice and implement them in their classrooms. The Noyce Foundation's Inside Mathematics website [insidemathematics.org] provides the core resources for these materials. Each module supports a 1.5- to 3-hour session that focuses on one or two of the mathematical practices and is:

  • Anchored by a high demand mathematics task
  • Situated in classroom practice, with classroom video and/or samples of student work
  • Presented in PowerPoint format with slide annotations on the Notes pages to support facilitation
  • Designed to be used individually or in combination with other modules.

Links:
Introduction to the CCSS and the Standards for Mathematical Practice

Reasoning and Unpacking Others' Reasoning for grades 4-6

Modeling and Viable Arguments for grades 6-8

NCSM Position Papers

NCSM position papers including the joint CCSS position paper
Position Paper Facilitation Guide (will be posted after pilot)