The Common Core

What is the Common Core?

1What are the Common Core State Standards?

The Common Core State Standards (frequently known as just Common Core) are a set of K-12 educational standards in math and language arts. 45 states have adopted Common Core, including California.

2Where did Common Core come from?

A 2004 report found that many colleges and employers had growing expectations of high school graduates, but that schools had not increased their standards accordingly. The standards were then created by the National Governors Association and Council of Chief State School Officers. Officials from 48 states participated in the process to develop the standards over several years.

3How will Common Core be tested?

This is one of the key questions that remain to be answered. Some superintendents have even admitted the possibility that Common Core testing will drive curriculum and lesson plans at school districts. Critics have suggested that because states have hired outside companies to develop the tests, these companies will be indirectly creating curricula for states.

4Why is Common Core important?

Supporters of Common Core argue that having clear standards benefits everyone: teachers, parents, and students alike. Regardless of state, the students will receive an education that prepares them for college, work, and life after high school. Parents will be able to compare their child’s school to others more easily and, and teachers will have clear expectations to be met. The shared standards across states will also make it easier to share textbooks, curriculums, and other teaching materials.

5How is Common Core different from current standards?

The Common Core is designed to have fewer, simplified standards. These standards will be more rigorous than most states’ current standards, though.

6How much will Common Core implementation cost?

This is currently unknown, but there will be additional costs for implementation. Teachers will require training and new materials will need to be purchased, both of which will be additional expenses. There will potentially be cost-saving opportunities, though, by sharing materials across states.

7Does this mean there will be a national curriculum for all students?

The Common Core is not a curriculum, only a set of standards: goals and expectations for students. Curriculums will still be developed by local teachers, principals, superintendents, and others. Individual lesson plans will still create the lesson plans in their classrooms.

8Is Common Core all we need?

No! The intent of the standards is certainly good: all high school graduates across the country better educated and prepared for their future. With higher standards, though, it becomes even more critical that students be in class, and for students to be in class, they need to be healthy. Oral health problems alone account for almost a million absences a year in just California. Ensuring that kids have health care that’s easy to access and affordable can reduce absences, improve academic performance, and create a better school climate.

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1Common Core Grade 1

Description:

This crash course is designed to teach students the new standards of the Common Core.

Course Objective:

Skills to be learned during this course:

Make Sense of Problems and persevere 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 a make use of structure.
Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

Tentative Course Schedule:

Session 1: Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction.
Session 2: Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction.
Session 3: Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction.
Session 4: Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction.
Session 5: Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction.
Session 6: Understand and apply properties of operations and the relationship between addition and subtraction
Session 7: Understand and apply properties of operations and the relationship between addition and subtraction
Session 8: Understand subtraction as an unknown-addend problem.
Session 9: Understand subtraction as an unknown-addend problem.
Session 10: Understand subtraction as an unknown-addend problem.
Session 11: Add and subtract within 20.
Session 12: Add and subtract within 20.
Session 13: Work with addition and subtraction equations.
Session 14: Work with addition and subtraction equations.
Session 15: Work with addition and subtraction equations.
Session 16: Work with addition and subtraction equations.
Session 17: Work with addition and subtraction equations.
Session 18: Extend the counting sequence.
Session 19: Extend the counting sequence.
Session 20: Understand place value.
Session 21: Understand place value.
Session 22: Use place value understanding and properties of operations to add and subtract.
Session 23: Measurement and Data
Session 24: Measurement and Data
Session 25: Geometry
Session 26: Geometry

2Common Core Grade 2

Description:

This crash course is designed to teach students the new standards of the Common Core.

Course Objective:

Skills to be learned during this course:

Make sense of problems and persevere 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 a make use of structure.
Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

Tentative Course Schedule:

Session 1: Word Addition Within 100
Session 2: Word Addition Within 100
Session 3: Word Addition Within 100
Session 4: Word Addition Within 100
Session 5: Creating Groups of 100
Session 6: Creating Groups of 100
Session 7: Understanding Places (3 Digit)
Session 8: Understanding Places (3 Digit)
Session 9: American Ruler
Session 10: American Ruler
Session 11: Identifying Quadrilaterals
Session 12: Comparing Two Measurements
Session 13: Comparing Two Measurements
Session 14: Word Measurement (Estimating)
Session 15: Comparing objects width
Session 16: Creating Clocks
Session 17: Matching Clocks (5 Minute Increments)
Session 18: Reading a Clock (5 Minute Increments)
Session 19: 4 Bars - Single Unit
Session 20: Matching Pictographs to Charts
Session 21: Reading A Picto Graph
Session 22: Identifying Quadrilaterals
Session 23: Partitioning Rectangles
Session 24: Naming Fractions

3Common Core Grade 3

Description:

This crash course is designed to teach students the new standards of the Common Core.

Course Objective:

Skills to be learned during this course:

Make sense of problems and persevere 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 a make use of structure.
Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

Tentative Course Schedule:

Session 1: Represent and solve problems involving multiplication and division
Session 2: Represent and solve problems involving multiplication and division.
Session 3: Represent and solve problems involving multiplication and division.
Session 4: Represent and solve problems involving multiplication and division.
Session 5: Understand properties of multiplication and the relationship between multiplication and division.
Session 6: Understand properties of multiplication and the relationship between multiplication and division.
Session 7: Understand properties of multiplication and the relationship between multiplication and division.
Session 8: Multiply and divide within 100.
Session 9: Solve problems involving the four operations, and identify and explain patterns in arithmetic.
Session 10: Solve problems involving the four operations, and identify and explain patterns in arithmetic.
Session 11: Use place value understanding and properties of operations to perform multi-digit arithmetic.
Session 12: Use place value understanding and properties of operations to perform multi-digit arithmetic.
Session 13: Use place value understanding and properties of operations to perform multi-digit arithmetic.
Session 14: Build fractions from unit fractions by applying and extending previous understandings of operations on whole numbers.
Session 15: Develop understanding of fractions as numbers.
Session 16: Develop understanding of fractions as numbers
Session 17: Develop understanding of fractions as numbers
Session 18: Develop understanding of fractions as numbers
Session 19: Solve problems involving measurement and estimation of intervals of time, liquid volumes, and masses of objects.
Session 20: Measurement and Data
Session 21: Measurement and Data
Session 22: Geometry
Session 23: Geometry
Session 24: Geometry

4Common Core Grade 4

Description:

This crash course is designed to teach students the new standards of the Common Core.

Course Objective:

Skills to be learned during this course:

Make sense of problems and persevere 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 a make use of structure.
Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

Tentative Course Schedule:

Session 1: Interpreting Multiplication Problems
Session 2: Multiplying 10s
Session 3: Using Place Value to Solve Problems
Session 4: Rewriting Addition to Multiplication
Session 5: Understanding Multiplying By 10s
Session 6: Generalize place value understanding for multi-digit whole numbers.
Session 7: Round Within 1 Million
Session 8: Use place value understanding and properties of operations to perform multi-digit arithmetic.
Session 9: Use place value understanding and properties of operations to perform multi-digit arithmetic.
Session 10: Use place value understanding and properties of operations to perform multi-digit arithmetic.
Session 11: Extend understanding of fraction equivalence and ordering.
Session 12: Extend understanding of fraction equivalence and ordering.
Session 13: Build fractions from unit fractions by applying and extending previous understandings of operations on whole numbers.
Session 14: Build fractions from unit fractions by applying and extending previous understandings of operations on whole numbers.
Session 15: Build fractions from unit fractions by applying and extending previous understandings of operations on whole numbers.
Session 16: Build fractions from unit fractions by applying and extending previous understandings of operations on whole numbers.
Session 17: Build fractions from unit fractions by applying and extending previous understandings of operations on whole numbers.
Session 18: Understand decimal notation for fractions, and compare decimal fractions.
Session 19: Understand decimal notation for fractions, and compare decimal fractions.
Session 20: Measurement and Data
Session 21: Measurement and Data
Session 22: Geometry
Session 23: Geometry
Session 24: Geometry

5Common Core Grade 5

Description:

This crash course is designed to teach students the new standards of the Common Core.

Course Objective:

Skills to be learned during this course:

Make sense of problems and persevere 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 a make use of structure.
Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

Tentative Course Schedule:

Session 1: Write and interpret numerical expressions.
Session 2: Write and interpret numerical expressions
Session 3: Analyze patterns and relationships.
Session 4: Understand the place value system.
Session 5: Understanding Multiplying By 10s
Session 6: Understand the place value system.
Session 7: Understand the place value system
Session 8: Perform operations with multi-digit whole numbers and with decimals to hundredths.
Session 9: Perform operations with multi-digit whole numbers and with decimals to hundredths.
Session 10: Use equivalent fractions as a strategy to add and subtract fractions.
Session 11: Use equivalent fractions as a strategy to add and subtract fractions.
Session 12: Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division to multiply and divide fractions.
Session 13: Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division to multiply and divide fractions.
Session 14:Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division to multiply and divide fractions.
Session 15: Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division to multiply and divide fractions.
Session 16: Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division to multiply and divide fractions.
Session 17: Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division to multiply and divide fractions.
Session 18: Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division to multiply and divide fractions.
Session 19: Measurement and Data
Session 20: Measurement and Data
Session 21: Measurement and Data
Session 22: Geometry
Session 23: Geometry
Session 24: Geometry

6Common Core Grade 6

Description:

This crash course is designed to teach students the new standards of the Common Core.

Course Objective:

Skills to be learned during this course:

Make sense of problems and persevere 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 a make use of structure.
Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

Tentative Course Schedule:

Session 1: Ratios and Proportional Relationships
Session 2: Ratios and Proportional Relationships
Session 3: Ratios and Proportional Relationships
Session 4: Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division to divide fractions by fractions.
Session 5: Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division to divide fractions by fractions.
Session 6: Compute fluently with multi-digit numbers and find common factors and multiples.
Session 7: Compute fluently with multi-digit numbers and find common factors and multiples.
Session 8: Compute fluently with multi-digit numbers and find common factors and multiples.
Session 9: Apply and extend previous understandings of numbers to the system of rational numbers.
Session 10 Apply and extend previous understandings of numbers to the system of rational numbers.
Session 11: Apply and extend previous understandings of numbers to the system of rational numbers.
Session 12: Apply and extend previous understandings of numbers to the system of rational numbers.
Session 13: Apply and extend previous understandings of numbers to the system of rational numbers.
Session 14:Apply and extend previous understandings of arithmetic to algebraic expressions.
Session 15: Apply and extend previous understandings of arithmetic to algebraic expressions.
Session 16: Apply and extend previous understandings of arithmetic to algebraic expressions.
Session 17: Apply and extend previous understandings of arithmetic to algebraic expressions.
Session 18: Apply and extend previous understandings of arithmetic to algebraic expressions.
Session 19: Reason about and solve one-variable equations and inequalities
Session 20: Reason about and solve one-variable equations and inequalities
Session 21: Reason about and solve one-variable equations and inequalities
Session 22: Represent and analyze quantitative relationships between dependent and independent variables
Session 23: Represent and analyze quantitative relationships between dependent and independent variables
Session 24: Geometry
Session 25: Geometry
Session 26: Geometry
Session 27: Statistics & Probability
Session 28: Statistics & Probability
Session 29: Statistics & Probability

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