Middle School Math Smokey Road Middle School March

Middle School Math Smokey Road Middle School March 5, 2013

Agenda O Textbook adoption update O ASSISTments O Course recommendations O Math in May O Professional learning opportunities O Concerns/suggestions/needs

Textbook adoption update Textbooks are needed resources … § For continuity across district within courses § For better vertical alignment § To support students with limited digital access § To support new teachers § To meet parental expectations § To provide additional resources for everyone

For further consideration O Mc. Graw-Hill: Glencoe Math Connected and Georgia Math O Kendall Hunt: Math Innovations O Holt Mc. Dougal: Georgia Mathematics O Pearson: Digits and Math Navigator

Prospective timeline 3/25 4/9 4/10 • Presentations by publishers • Recommendations to BOE • Order (if BOE approves)

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Course recommendations O Students with an IEP, especially those with specific mathematical disabilities, should be enrolled in the year-long Coordinate Algebra unless other evidence STRONGLY indicates that support is unnecessary. O For all students, it is important to err by recommending the year-long course and then having to subsequently change the student’s schedule to the one-term class if that change is needed.

Math in May O Grade 6 § Operations with Integers O Grade 7 § Transformations, Congruence, and Similarity O Grade 8 § 7. SP. 7 § 7. SP. 8 § Equations § Exponents § Graphs

CCGPS Math Workshop O Two-day workshop § April 24 § May 8 O Purpose § Tweak instructional sequence § Create planning documents

Summer Math Academies O Sponsored by GCTM and Ga. DOE O Separate sessions for each grade level or course O $50 for GCTM members; $60 otherwise O Registration opens April 1 O See flyer for academy dates and locations as well as closing dates for registration

Concerns, suggestions, needs