Wednesday, June 4, 2014

MT Common Core Curriculum Alignment

These are documents and sites that will help you with implementation of the Common Core Standards

Here is our guiding document for the workshop with links and site summaries:
 https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/86544682/Common%20Core/TechToolsELA-Math.docx

Basal Alignment Project:
http://achievethecore.org/ela-literacy-common-core/aligning-materials/basal-alignment-project

Rigor and Relevance Framework: What to consider as you enhance your content.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/86544682/MSSA/copied/R%26Rframework-short.pdf

Here are the documents used to make the shifts in current curriculum to MCCS:
Grades:
K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, HS  (Blank Plan-all content areas)

Monday, June 2, 2014

Statistics Resources and Tools

The new math standards have shifted around and added in a lot of statistics content that used to be covered in a high school Statistics course. There are even shifts at the elementary in the Measurement and Data domain. If you find yourself looking for stats tools, ideas, and resources--this post should help.

Standards:
www.gtccmt.org Golden Triangle Cooperative

http://opi.mt.gov/pdf/CCSSO/11NovMathCommonCoreGradeband.pdf OPI GradeBand Math Standards

Activities/Lessons:
 Great Stats STEM lessons: filter for Statistics  mathinscience.info
 Problems of the Month:  insidemathematics.org
National STEM Centre (click the Math tab and Age filter on left)
 Graphing linear equations from real-life examples!! graphingstories.com
Build Vocabulary:  Granite School District
Great introductory normal distribution site with interactive tools: http://www.mathsisfun.com/data/standard-normal-distribution.html
Stats Software
iXL practice (lower levels of Bloom's)
Capture-Recapture (try with Swedish Fish/Gummy Bears): http://illuminations.nctm.org/Lesson.aspx?id=2528

Applications/Tools:
Instructions for statistics in Excel:  http://www.princeton.edu/~otorres/Excel/
Scientific Notebook: BEST software for writing explanations AND performing math computation, graphing, etc.
GeoGebra: FREE Geometry and Algebra software--similar to Geometer's Sketchpad
Free Graphing Calculator Apps

Data:
Data Library of data sets to use for calculations: http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/DASL/

MTI (Math Thinking): http://www.sde.idaho.gov/site/math/mtiWebinarsArchived.htm