Parent Math Information Night December 6, 2011 Rebecca Fleming & Noreen Haus

1. Parent Math Information Night December 6, 2011 Rebecca Fleming & Noreen Haus

2. Welcome to Parent Math Information Night! • Purpose: • To gather information about your child’s math program • To learn techniques for helping your child with mathematics at home

3. Elementary Math Expectations DESIRED OUTCOMES: • All students will leave all elementary schools ready to enroll in higher level mathematics in middle school. MAIN GOALS: • Virginia Dept. of Education and APS expectations are that each student completes Algebra I successfully by grade 8 • Teachers will have the content knowledge necessary to effectively teach the APS curriculum • All students will be appropriately challenged in mathematics

4. Mathematics Standards • Virginia “sets rigorous academic standards, known as the Standards of Learning (SOL)” – Grades K -12 and • “measures achievement through annual SOL tests and alternative and alternate assessments.” – Grades 3-12.

7. Changes to the SOLS and the impact on assessment and instruction • Newly revised and adopted Standards (2009) • Enhanced emphasis on Process Standards

8. Process Standards 8

9. Technology Enhanced Items (TEI)about 15% Format of Questions: • Fill in the blank • Drag and drop • Hot-spots: Select one or more answer options, placing points on coordinate planes • Creation of graphs 9

10. Assessments – Then and Now NEW OLD Grade 3 10

11. Assessments – Then and Now OLD NEW Grade 3 11

12. Assessments – Then and Now OLD NEW Grade 4 12

13. Assessments – Then and Now NEW OLD Grade 5 13

14. Assessment – All Levels Increased focus on multistep and applied (“practical” or “real world”) problems Testing the converse of a standard Probability can be represented in many ways Increased emphasis on models and multiple representations (number lines, fraction models, operations with fractions) Prior knowledge from earlier grade levels 14

15. Becoming Problem Solvers through mathematics not for mathematics • Become mathematical problem solvers that • communicate mathematically; • reason mathematically; • make mathematical connections; and • use mathematical representations to model and interpret practical situations 15

16. APS Mathematics Approaches and Resources • Whole and Small Group Instruction • Small group pull out as well as integrated ESOL/HILT and Special Education instruction • Integrated differentiation in the classroom as well as small group pull-out for identified GT students • Instructional support provided by Math Coach • Math Expressions Textbook, Workbook, and on-line resources • EveryDay Counts Calendar Math • Continental Math League Contests– Grades 2-5

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18. An Instructional Example from Math Expressions:Grade 4 Factor Fireworks

19. Five Core Lesson Structures Building Concepts Math Talk Helping Community Develop Conceptual Understanding Student Leaders Quick Practice

20. Math Talk Children share strategies and solutions orally and through proof drawings. “Aren’t there enough problems in the world already?”

21. Meaningful Mathematics – Math Talk • Students explain their thinking using drawings that support understanding and promote meaning • Students analyze different methods • Develops students’ math language skills and confidence • Students help each other understand by explaining thinking • Student-to-student talk is encouraged and flourishes

22. Guiding Questions and Prompts Math Talk Question Justify Solve Explain Manipulatives Math Drawings Symbols Math Drawings Language Symbols Language Proof Pictures Language Symbols

23. How can you help at home? There are many ways!

24. Student Participation is Key ask a question retell what another person says Today in math I will… retell a problem in my own words share how I solve a problem answer a question

25. Blackboard Resources • http://apsva.blackboard.com

26. Rebecca Fleming, Math Lead Teacher rebecca.fleming@apsva.us Noreen Haus, Math Coach noreen.haus@apsva.us Image: Zazzle.com