October 3, 2013

NYMS Math Mentor meeting
October 7, 2013
In attendance: Clare Harrington, Sheila Mayberry, Molly White
Next meeting date: November 14, 2013
Agenda items:

• role of math mentors
• coordinating copying of units for grade level
• disseminating/gathering math resources
• be the liaison between the teachers and Clare when organizing intervention groups (new aspect of role this year). It would be helpful when looking at the students to have more direct teacher input that gives us information beyond test scores. 
• math labs/ fact labs
• beginning next Thursday. Parents have been notified and we finalizing the lists based on responses.  
• is math fact lab effective? is Otter Creek the way to go? is there a better way to use that time?
• Star data - didn't get to this
• Smart Blocks
• Gr:4 :
• Begley, Barksadale, Russell - support math
• Mayberry, Gervais - math enrichment

• Gr. 5:
• White - mixed enrichment and support math
• Lane - support math
• Alexander - math enrichment

• math facts/algorithms - 
• Facts - much bigger issue across the K-5 span.  What are our expectations and goals K-5?
• Algorithms
• Grade 5, partial products for all and traditional when student is ready
• Grade 4, partial sums, move to traditional when ready. Partial Products and Partial Quotients introduced but mastery is not expected.
• - any additions from you that you would like to discuss
• It would be good to take a look at how we are assessing our students
• what are doing with open responses?
• how are we keeping track of the higher end students?
• how are we using the data in the spreadsheets?
• more information on Bar Modeling and materials to support it to help with problem solving
• should we do baseline tests later in the fall?
• Could Margie do small lab groups before school 2 days a week?  Apparently, she would like to and this might solve the problem with some of our students who can't do the afterschool lab on both days. It wouldn't be as much but would be better than nothing.