COHERENCE THE IMPORTANCE OF COHERENT LESSONS IN MIDDLE

COHERENCE THE IMPORTANCE OF COHERENT LESSONS IN MIDDLE SCHOOL MATHEMATICS Summer 2014 College and Career Readiness Conference

Session Protocol Based on RIGOR: Reduce Side Chatter Involve Yourself in the Process Give Your Thoughts and Ideas Open Your Mind to How You Can Change Instruction Remember to Silence Electronic Devices

SHIFTS Focus Coherenc e Rigor 1. Conceptual Understanding 2. Procedural Skill 3. Modeling/Application

COHERENCE Coherence comes from the verb to cohere, which means: • To stick together in a way that resists separation; • To be logically linked and naturally related. Think of Rice Krispies Treats…

We want our mathematics curriculum to have coherence… related concepts that stick together in a way that is obvious, understandable, connected, and reliable… for teachers and students alike!

COHERENCE A purposeful placement of standards to create logical sequences of content topics that bridge across the grades, as well as across standards within each grade.

TODAY’S OUTCOME Participants will: Explore in depth the “shift” of COHERENCE and its impact on mathematics content, instruction, and assessment of the Maryland CCR Standards in mathematics.

CONTENT COHERENCE The writers of the CCSS: Built COHERENCE into the content standards. Clarified and shared their vision of grade-to-grade and within-grade COHERENCE in the Progressions documents. http: //ime. math. arizona. edu/progressions/

In the following task from Illustrative Mathematics, complete the following steps: 1. Compute the correct answers. 2. What strategy did YOU use to approach/solve this problem? What other strategies might work, as well? 3. What are the mathematics concepts/skills that you must know in order to solve the problem? 4. What are the grade levels for these concepts/skills. 5. In your own classroom, how would you handle a situation in which students used a variety of strategies? What would you do if some strategies did not match the strategy in your textbook? http: //www. illustrativemathematics. org/illustrations/1564

Chichén Itzá was a Mayan city in what is now Yucatan, Mexico. This photo shows the Pyramid of Kukulcán, which is located in the ruins of Chichén Itzá. The floor of the temple at the top of the pyramid is approximately 24 meters above the ground, and there are 91 steps leading up to the temple. How high above the ground would you be if you were standing on the 50 th step?

GRADE-TO-GRADE COHERENCE Grade From Grade to Grade Understanding of fraction equivalence and the skill to generate equivalent fractions leads to the study of ratios. 6 th Skills with multiplication, division and fractions, contribute to the study of ratios and unit rates 7 th Analyze proportional relationships and solve problems involving unit rates associated with ratio fractions. 8 th Use similar triangles to prove that the slope of a line is welldefined and understand the points (x, y) on a non-vertical line are solutions to the equation, y= mx + b, where m is the slope of the line as well as the unit rate of a proportional relationship. INSTRUCTI ON 5 th

INSTRUCTION Scientists are sending a rover to the moon. Their plan is to study a rectangular area of the moon using the map shown. On the grid, 1 unit represents 1 http: //www. parcconline. org/sites/parcc/files/Fraction. Model. FINAL. pdf kilometer (km).

WITHIN-GRADE COHERENCE Grade 5 from Domain to Domain INSTRUCTI ON NBT. B. 7 Add, subtract, multiply, and divide decimals to #1 s hundreds… using strategies based on place value and properties of operations. . . NF. B. 4 b Find the area of a rectangle with fractional side lengths #2 s by tiling it with unit squares… and show that the area is the same as would be found multiplying the side lengths. MD. A. 1 #3 s G. A. 1 #4 s Convert among different-sized standard measurement units within a given measurement system… and use these conversions in solving multi-step, real-world problems. Graph points on the coordinate plane to solve real-world and mathematical problems.

INSTRUCTION Part A The rover will land at (3. 5, 1) to explore up to (3. 5, 4), and then over to (2, 4). Plot these three points on the map. Part B What are the coordinates of the fourth vertex of the rectangle that the scientists plan to explore? ( ____, ____ ) http: //www. parcconline. org/sites/parcc/files/Fraction. Model. FINAL. pdf

INSTRUCTION Part C What is the horizontal length of the rectangle? ______ kilometers What is the vertical length of the rectangle? ______ kilometers Part D Find the area of the moon exploration. Show your work. http: //www. parcconline. org/sites/parcc/files/Fraction. Model. FINAL. pdf

ASSESSME NT COHERENCE Evidence of Coherence in assessment is not tremendously different from evidence of coherence in classroom instruction.

ASSESSMENT Scientists are sending a rover to the moon. Their plan is to study a rectangular area of the moon using the map shown. On the grid, 1 unit represents 1 http: //www. parcconline. org/sites/parcc/files/Fraction. Model. FINAL. pdf kilometer (km).

ASSESSME NT COHERENCE • Type III task that calls for modeling and application in a real-world context (MP. 4) • Which other Standards for Mathematical Practice are assessed in this task? • Content standards are assessed as securely-held knowledge from grade 5.

ASSESSME NT Standards for Mathematical Practice 1. Make sense of problems and persevere 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. in solving them. Reason abstractly and quantitatively. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. Model with Mathematics. Use appropriate tools strategically. Attend to precision. Look for and make use of structure. Look for and express regularity in reasoning

COHERENCE ASSESSME NT Grade 5 Content Standards: • 5. NBT. B (Major) • 5. NF. B. 4 b (Major) • 5. MD. A. 1 (Major) • 5. G. A. 1 (Supporting)

Shift of Cohe r ence In reality, the “key” to making the Shift of Coherence a success rests in the arms of curriculum writers and classroom teachers. Instruction should take advantage of every opportunity to build connections between topics within a given grade, as well as between grades.

RELIABLE RESOURCES Illustrative Math https: //www. illustrativemathematics. org/ • Bill Mc. Cullum, CCSS lead writer • Sample Lessons that illustrate specific standards Achieve The Core https: //achievethecore. org • Jason Zimba, CCSS lead writer • Multiple Resources – e. g. Lesson Plans, Assessments, Professional Development courses, Grade-at-a-Glance PARCC http: //parcconline. org • Information about PARCC Assessments • Sample Lessons • Practice Tests