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Assessing the Common Core Standards: Real Life Mathematics | Edutopia
Really enjoyed this post about relevancy and mathematics by friend of EE Andrew Miller.
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Project Based Learning, iEarn and the Common Core | BIE
These two great organizations, BIE and i-Earn, come together in this video to talk about the role of Project Based Learning (PBL) within the Common Core. Good stuff here.
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Still need time to explore this one, but it has potential. Organized by grade level, it offers lessons and assessments for each math strand in each grade.
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achievethecore.org / Steal These Tools / Professional Development Modules
These look like great resources for CCSS P.D. Definitely going to be checking them out in more depth soon.
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This Gap Has No Sale Rack | transformED
This post mentions the Common Core as a possible means of closing the achievement gap. I have to admit, I hadn’t thought of that. But I like it. Another reason to support national standards, maybe? Of course it’s going to come down to execution. Maybe, though, the CCSS can bring more attention to the achievement gap.
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New York State Common Core Sample Questions
New York has put together sample questions tied to the common core. Worth a look.
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Are you in a Smarter Balanced consortium state? Here are rubrics for grades 3-11 that they have developed for writing.
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Collaborative Writing and Common Core Standards in the Classroom – MERGE.pptx – Google Docs
This presentation from ISTE was an awesome look at how to meet CCSS using collaborative writing.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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