February 2017

1. Focus & Within Grade Coherence in Grades 6-8 February 2017

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3. FOCUS IN GRADES 6-8Introduction: Who I Am Name 1 Name 2 Insert photo Insert photo

4. FOCUS IN GRADES 6-8Introduction: Who You Are Raise your hand if… • you are a math teacher • you are a math teacher coach • you hold a different role • you teach in a district school • you teach in a charter school • you teach or work in a different type of school or organization

5. FOCUS IN GRADES 6-8Icebreaker Share with the people at your table: • Where are you from? • What do you do? • What gets you up in the morning? No, seriously, why do you do this work? Look at the cluster headings on your table. As a group, decide which three clusters you would spend the most time teaching and why.

6. FOCUS IN GRADES 6-8The Shifts 1. Focus strongly where the Standards focus. 2. Coherence: Think across grades, and link to major topics within grades. 3. Rigorin major topics: Pursueconceptual understanding, procedural skill and fluency, and application with equal intensity.

7. FOCUS IN GRADES 6-8This Week “Do the math” Connect to our practice

8. FOCUS IN GRADES 6-8We Will… • Go deeperon standards and shifts and see how they play out in curriculum and instruction • Examine standards-aligned resources • Do a lot of math problems • Think about how what we are learning impacts what we will do in school

9. FOCUS IN GRADES 6-8 Data Collection at Standards Institute Data Collection Analysis Pre-survey (10-15m) Knowledge Facilitators Immediate adjustment: Content Facilitation Operation Daily survey (5-10m) Feedback Knowledge Institute team

10. FOCUS IN GRADES 6-8Norms That Support Our Learning • Take responsibility for yourself as a learner • Honor timeframes (start, end, activity) • Be an active and hands-on learner • Use technology to enhance learning • Strive for equity of voice • Contribute to a learning environment in which it is “safe to not know”

11. FOCUS IN GRADES 6-8Today • Morning: Focus in Grades 6-8 • Afternoon: Focus and Within Grade Coherence in Grades 6-8

12. FOCUS IN GRADES 6-8Morning Objectives • Participants will be able to describe the structure of the standards and how it translates to the learning and teaching of mathematics. • Participants will be able to identify clusters of standards as major, supporting, or additional. • Participants will be able to explain how specific content supports learning and teaching of major work.

13. FOCUS IN GRADES 6-8Morning Agenda • Framing the Challenge • Understanding Focus • Major, Supporting, and Additional Content • Deeper Dive: Major Work

14. FOCUS IN GRADES 6-8Framing the Challenge

15. FOCUS IN GRADES 6-8A Call for Focus “A focused, coherent progression of mathematics learning, with an emphasis on proficiency with key topics, should become the norm in elementary and middle school mathematics curricula. Any approach that continually revisits topics year after year without closure is to be avoided. By the term focused, the Panel means that curriculum must include (and engage with adequate depth) the most important topics underlying success in school algebra…. Improvements like those suggested in this report promise immediate positive results with minimal additional cost.” - National Mathematics Advisory Panel

16. FOCUS IN GRADES 6-8Focus in the Standards The Common Core calls for greater focus in mathematics. Rather than racing to cover many topics in a mile-wide, inch-deep curriculum, the standards ask math teachers to significantly narrow and deepen the way time and energy are spent in the classroom. This means focusing deeply on the major work of each grade.

17. FOCUS IN GRADES 6-8Why Focus? This focus will help students gain strong foundations, including a solid understanding of concepts, a high degree of procedural skill and fluency, and the ability to apply the math they know to solve problems inside and outside the classroom.

18. FOCUS IN GRADES 6-8Quick Review Domain Grade Level Cluster Standard

19. FOCUS IN GRADES 6-8Where to Focus?

20. FOCUS IN GRADES 6-8Focus by Grade Level This shows where students and teachers should spend the large majority of their time in order to meet the expectations of the Standards. • Not all content in a given grade is emphasized equally in the Standards. • Some clusters require greater emphasis than others based on the depth of the ideas, the time that they take to master, and/or their importance to future mathematics or the demands of college and career readiness. • More time in these areas is also necessary for students to meet the Standards for Mathematical Practice. • To say that some things have greater emphasis is not to say that anything in the Standards can safely be neglected in instruction. Neglecting material will leave gaps in student skill and understanding and may leave students unprepared for the challenges of a later grade.

21. FOCUS IN GRADES 6-8Focus by Grade Level • Major clusters are the highest priority. • Supporting clusters are designed to support and strengthen areas of major emphasis. • Additional clusters may not connect tightly or explicitly to the major work.

22. FOCUS IN GRADES 6-8Focus by Grade Level Protocol – Major Work • Read the Focus document for your grade(s). • Identify the major work for your grade(s). • Identify the major work for the other grades in this gradeband. • Identify themes for major work across this gradeband. Bonus • Identify the themes for major work in Grades K-2 and 3-5. • What do these themes mean for the major work in 6-8? • What changes, if any, would you make to the three clusters you chose to prioritize in the icebreaker?

23. FOCUS IN GRADES 6-8Digging Into Major Work Protocol: • Do the math – 2 tasks per grade. • Identify the standard and why the task aligns. • Discuss the alignment with a partner at your table.

24. FOCUS IN GRADES 6-8Major Work – Grade 6 6.RP.A.3 Jasmine has taken an online boating safety course and is now completing her end-of-course exam. As she answers each question, the progress bar at the bottom of the screen shows what portion of the test she has finished. She has just completed Question 16 and the progress bar shows she is 20% complete. How many total questions are on the test? Use a table, diagram, or equation to justify your answer.

25. FOCUS IN GRADES 6-8Major Work – Grade 7 7.RP.A.1 • Molly runs 1/3 of a mile in 4 minutes. • If Molly continues at the same speed, how long will it take her to run one mile? • Draw and label a picture showing why your answer to part (a) makes sense.

26. FOCUS IN GRADES 6-8Major Work – Grade 8 8.FA.1 The following table shows the amount of garbage that was produced in the US each year between 2002 and 2010 (as reported by the EPA). Let's define a function which assigns to an input t (a year between 2002 and 2010) the total amount of garbage, G, produced in that year (in million tons). To find these values, you can look them up in the table. How much garbage was produced in 2004? In which year did the US produce 251 million tons of garbage? Does the table describe a linear function? Draw a graph that shows this data.

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28. FOCUS AND WITHIN GRADE COHERENCE IN GRADES 6-8Today • Morning: Focus in Grades 6-8 • Afternoon: Focus and Within Grade Coherence in Grades 6-8

29. FOCUS AND WITHIN GRADE COHERENCE IN GRADES 6-8Afternoon Objectives • Participants will be able to identify connections between content within a grade level. • Participants will be able to evaluate a sample scope and sequence by • determining whether or not it covers grade-level content; • evaluating the amount of time spent on major, supporting, and additional work; and • recognizing purposeful connections between content (i.e., between major and supporting and between major and major).

30. FOCUS AND WITHIN GRADE COHERENCE IN GRADES 6-8Afternoon Agenda • Deeper Dive: Supporting Work • Connect to Practice: Impact of Focus • Coherence Within the Grade • Connect to Practice: Evaluate a Scope and Sequence

31. FOCUS AND WITHIN GRADE COHERENCE IN GRADES 6-8Digging Into Supporting Work Protocol • Identify the supporting work for your grade(s) using the focus documents. • Do the math – identify the standard. • Discuss how this standard supports major work.

32. FOCUS AND WITHIN GRADE COHERENCE IN GRADES 6-8Supporting in Grade 6 6.G.A.2 The volume of the rectangular prism is yd3. Determine the missing measurement using a one-step equation.

33. FOCUS AND WITHIN GRADE COHERENCE IN GRADES 6-8Supporting in Grade 7 7.SP.C.6 • Each of the 20 students in Mr. Anderson's class flipped a coin ten times and recorded how many times it came out heads. • How many heads do you think you will see out of ten tosses? • Would it surprise you to see 4 heads out of ten tosses? Explain why or why not. • Here are the results for the twenty students in Mr. Anderson's class. Use this data to estimate the probability of observing 4, 5, or 6 heads in ten tosses of the coin. (It might help to organize the data in a table or in a dot plot first.)

34. FOCUS AND WITHIN GRADE COHERENCE IN GRADES 6-8Supporting in Grade 8 8.SP.A.1 Medhavi suspects that there is a relationship between the number of text messages high school students send and their academic achievement. To explore this, she asks each student in a random sample of 52 students from her school how many text messages he or she sent yesterday and what his or her grade point average (GPA) was during the most recent marking period. • The data are summarized in the scatter plot of number of text messages sent versus GPA shown below. • Describe the relationship between number of text messages sent and GPA. Discuss both the overall pattern and any deviations from the pattern.

35. FOCUS AND WITHIN GRADE COHERENCE IN GRADES 6-8Focus in 6-8 • Connection to practice: • What are the common threads in the major work in Grades 6-8? • How do supporting clusters connect to the major work? • What impact do the focus documents have on your role? • Why does a focused curriculum lead to greater student success?

36. FOCUS AND WITHIN GRADE COHERENCE IN GRADES 6-8Coherence Within the Grade

37. Within Grade Coherence: Coherence is built into the standards for each grade through the utilization of complementary topics to support and reinforce a major topic in a grade. This also increases focus in the grade.

38. FOCUS AND WITHIN GRADE COHERENCE IN GRADES 6-8Task Analysis Protocol: • Do the math – 2 tasks per grade • Identify the standards and why the task aligns. • Discuss why this connection is important to show to students.

39. FOCUS AND WITHIN GRADE COHERENCE IN GRADES 6-8Grade 6 6.RP.A.3 and 6.EE.B.7 • A fruit salad consists of blueberries, raspberries, grapes, and cherries. The fruit salad has a total of 280 pieces of fruit. There are twice as many raspberries as blueberries, three times as many grapes as cherries, and four times as many cherries as raspberries. How many cherries are there in the fruit salad?

40. FOCUS AND WITHIN GRADE COHERENCE IN GRADES 6-8Grade 7 7.RP.A.3, 7.EE.B.3 and 7.RP.A.2 • In New York, state sales tax rates vary by county. In Allegany County, the sales tax rate is 8 ½ %. • A book costs $12.99, and a video game costs $39.99. Rounded to the nearest cent, how much more is the tax on the video game than the tax on the book? • Using 𝑛 to represent the cost of an item in dollars before tax and 𝑡 to represent the amount of sales tax in dollars for that item, write an equation to show the relationship between 𝑛 and 𝑡. • Using your equation, create a table that includes five possible pairs of solutions to the equation. Label each column appropriately.

41. FOCUS AND WITHIN GRADE COHERENCE IN GRADES 6-8Grade 8 • The Frequent Text Plan is modeled by the graph shown below. • How many text messages would result in the same cost per month for the two plans? A customer is comparing two different text message plans at Cellular Bargains. He wants to find out which plan allows the most text messages for the same cost. The Pay Per Text Plan charges $10 per month and $0.10 for each text message. Write a function that models this plan, stating what your variables represent. 8.F.B.4 and 8.EE.C.8.C

42. FOCUS AND WITHIN GRADE COHERENCE IN GRADES 6-8Reflection • How will the discussion on within grade coherence impact what you do in school? • Has your thinking about curriculum, instruction, or lesson planning changed given the discussion on focus and within grade coherence? How?

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44. FOCUS AND WITHIN GRADE COHERENCE IN GRADES 6-8Connect to Practice “A focused, coherent progression of mathematics learning, with an emphasis on proficiency with key topics, should become the norm in elementary and middle school mathematics curricula. Any approach that continually revisits topics year after year without closure is to be avoided. By the term focused, the Panel means that curriculum must include (and engage with adequate depth) the most important topics underlying success in school algebra…. Improvements like those suggested in this report promise immediate positive results with minimal additional cost.” - National Mathematics Advisory Panel

45. FOCUS AND WITHIN GRADE COHERENCE IN GRADES 6-8Connect to Practice • How do we know if our curriculum is focused and coherent? • What is the Focus criteria? • What is the Coherent criteria?

46. FOCUS AND WITHIN GRADE COHERENCE IN GRADES 6-8Connect to Practice Focus Criteria • Focus on grade-level standards • Appropriate emphasis on major work Coherence Criteria • Complementary topics support and reinforce a major topic • Supporting work integrated with major work

47. FOCUS AND WITHIN GRADE COHERENCE IN GRADES 6-8Evaluate a Scope and Sequence Look at the sample scope and sequence. • Does the scope and sequence appropriately focus on grade-level standards and focus on major content? What evidence do you have? • Does the scope and sequence appropriately reflect the idea of within grade coherence? What evidence do you have?

48. FOCUS AND WITHIN GRADE COHERENCE IN GRADES 6-8Evaluate Your Scope and Sequence Look at the scope and sequence or curriculum map that you brought with you today. • Does the scope and sequence appropriately focus on grade-level standards and focus on major content? What evidence do you have? • Does the scope and sequence appropriately reflect the idea of within grade coherence? What evidence do you have?

49. FOCUS AND WITHIN GRADE COHERENCE IN GRADES 6-8Evaluate Your Scope and Sequence Look at the scope and sequence or curriculum map that you brought with you today. • Does the scope and sequence appropriately focus on grade-level standards and focus on major content? What evidence do you have? • Does the scope and sequence appropriately reflect the idea of within grade coherence? What evidence do you have? Further reflection: • How will the focus shift impact your work with creating and/or coaching around scope and sequences? • How will within grade coherence impact your work with creating and/or coaching around scope and sequences?

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