K-2 PARCC Content Emphases and Frameworks

I have spent most of this week over in a school district near Portland, OR doing trainings for almost all of their Title 1 Kindergarten through 2nd grade teachers.  One of the activities we did together was investigating the Content Emphases (download it at the bottom of the linked page) for each grade level Kindergarten through […]

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Traditional Algorithms SUCK!!!

Now, let me be clear…I am in no means in love with Common Core.  There are a few issues that I see in the math content standards, there are issues with the implementation piece that has been put upon teachers’ shoulders, and there are issues with the testing aspect.  But most of that is not […]

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The “NEW” way to do math “via Common Core” should make you mad!!!

  Are you upset with this “new way” they are doing math now days in school?  If so, you really should be upset about the way you were taught math when you were in school!!!  I sure am, and the teachers and college students I work with are as well.  Every time I do a […]

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