K-12 Vertical Math November 14, 2012 Members Present: Jason Gauthier, Bruce Esterline, Josh Modert, Jessica

Hoekstra, Andrea Weiss, Susan Kloster-Larkey, Martha Roelof, Nicole Knight-Lucas, Melissa Koenig, Heather Kortlandt Pinnacle Instruction will be used for a variety of purposes. We are utilizing it as a communication tool. How to get to our site assessments, classes attended, curriculum look for OPS district math team on the left hand side. The materials tab has our agendas and minutes. Below there is also a spot for resources which includes any websites that we reviewed, ppts, etc. Delta Math Kindergarten will test in the spring 1st grade had screened in the spring and were ready to jump in this fall. Mary Reitenour attended a 1st grade PLC meeting to help explain her process in the intervention process. They only needed to focus on 3 areas. Using interventions twice a week with the assistance of Title I tutors. First grade is further ahead this year than in years past. Feels that focus on the spring helped get them there. 2nd grade It is going well. Excited that tutors are assisting with the interventions. IXL is also helping. Some groups are having trouble with the math facts. Some students are looking at each others computer. 3rd grade we usually spend the first trimester teaching addition and subtraction. We have been able to begin multiplication earlier. Feels our K-12 math group has helped focus the teachers on essential skills. Math chapters have been rearranged to hit the essential skills and the nice to knows have been moved to the end. 4th grade level usually we spend the whole year on math facts typically start division in January. With CCSS we had to bump everything up and it has been wonderful. Tremendous growth! MAC - 4th/5th grade level Do we work on decimals at the same time as fractions? Screener went really well. It helped us focus in the skills. There are some that we were able to skip right over because they had been mastered. 5th grade Havent been letting Delta Math drive them. Every building is doing it differently. Working on multiplication and division facts and they are getting really good at it. Currently working on decimals and then will move into fractions for the rest of the year. OMS werent specific areas that they needed to work on. Technology worked better this year. Hitting items in the daily warm up. OHS Will be given screener when class lists are loaded. He will be using the Algebra I screener.

Whats next for Delta Math? Give same screener all three times (September, January, May) throughout this school year. Quick checks will be given for the next grade level throughout the year as standards are taught. Pinnacle Instruction could be used so that students can have extra experience with online testing.

Manchester Public Schools Distributed sample of curriculum maps and showed an example of a performance task. The small empty column ranks the standards. Not all standards are created equal. Standards are ranked in the following ways: Major-70%, Supporting -20%, Additional-10% Smarter Balanced Assessment www.smarterbalanced.org -What do we already know? Performance task based Online manipulatives Technology enhanced/computer adaptive items Multiple choice items arent the same need to use selected response More problem solving skills Understand in depth knowledge Explaining your answer writing Testing is in the spring instead of the fall 12 week window Tools (i.e - calculator) are included Grades tested 3rd-8th and 11th interim & formative tests in between Graded by artificial intelligence not by a human being.

Viewed samples of SmarterBalanced performance samples. It is best to use Google Chrome as an internet browser so that you can see the pictures in the examples. As you scroll over the top blue line (about this item), you will be able to see the grade level, standard, rubric, etc. Nothing is assessed in isolation there are several standards connected into one problem. Teach students how to recognize equivalent fractions. fractions. Do not spend time on teaching reduced

Performance tasks will take 2 class periods. The online portion is expected to be done in one seating. Resources for Performance Tasks Mathematics Assessment Project map.mathshell.org Illustrative Mathematics Curriculum Adoption Quesitons from the group? Can we just adopt teachers editions or do we have to have buy student books too? Saxon Math is a K-12 curriculum that exists very traditional Less traditional plan - Everyday Math (McGraw Hill), CMP3 (MSU taught by the author) , Core Plus We will schedule a representative to come to our group to present Every Day Math. Our K-12 budget is $80,000.