January 9, 2014

K-12 Math Task Force - info for mentors.  They did not know about it and are OK not joining but want to be kept informed of progress. Maggi and I will represent NYMS.

Added meeting dates for:
Feb. 10 (K-5 meeting)
March 27
April 17
May 15

Mid year computation assessment:

• 5 or 6 questions
• 25 min
• data collection

Math Fact/Computation lab;

• algorithms
• gr 4 - partial products/ partial quotients
• gr.5 - partial products and traditional mult/ partial quotients
• addition - partial sums or traditional
• 2 days in a row per grade 
• Wed. - make up day? reserve day?

Fact benchmarks:

Grade 5

0-2 exceeds

3-5 meets

6-9 does not meet

10 or more, does not meet

Grade 4

100-96% exceeds

95-90- meets

89-81- partially

below 80- does not meet

Report Cards - not many exceeds, if they do they are for kids who are consistently stellar.

gr. 5 - Writing and reasoning can get 4s more frequently.

Goals:

• improve our IXL connections (release time?)
• Want to look at the following units more in-depth to better meet the needs of CCSSM:
• positive/negative number unit - remove but beef up order of operations (unit 7)- gr 5
• Fractions unit - unit 7 and 9 or measurements, grade 4

"Itunes u" course- Sheila has a geometry one called Basic Geometry.

Next meeting- Feb. 10, K-5