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The Common Core Mathematics Companion: The Standards Decoded, Grades K-2

What They Say, What They Mean, How to Teach Them
By: Linda M. Gojak, Ruth Harbin Miles

Series Creator: Jim Burke

This book is modeled after Jim Burke’s successful Common Core Companion Series. It is the first of two books (K-2, 3-5) in the series. The book will include a clear explanation of the mathematics within each domain, cluster, and standard and suggested grade level appropriate visual models and representations. It is a book for math teachers who may or may not be math specialists. As teachers plan and develop their curriculum, this book will help them determine important mathematics in a cluster and how that mathematics connects from one grade to the next as well as within a grade.

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Product Details
  • Grade Level: PreK-12
  • ISBN: 9781483381565
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Series: Corwin Mathematics Series
  • Year: 2015
  • Page Count: 256
  • Publication date: April 14, 2015
Price: $39.95
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Description

Description

Your user’s guide to the mathematics standards

In the 12 short months since the ELA versions of The Common Core Companions, Grades K-2 and 3-5, burst on the scene, they’ve already assisted tens of thousands of teachers with the day-to-day “what you do.” Teachers’ one big criticism: what about mathematics? Luckily NCTM past-president Linda Gojak and mathematics coach Ruth Harbin Miles stepped up to the task. The result? That version of the mathematics standards you wish you had.

Page by page, The Common Core Mathematics Companions clearly lay out:

  • The mathematics embedded in each standard for a deeper understanding of the content
  • Examples of what effective teaching and learning look like in the classroom
  • Connected standards within each domain so teachers can better appreciate how they relate
  • Priorities within clusters so teachers know where to focus their time
  • The three components of rigor: conceptual understanding, procedural skills, and applications
  • Vocabulary and suggested materials for each grade-level band with explicit connections to the standards
  • Common student misconceptions around key mathematical ideas with ways to address them

Don’t spend another minute poring over the mathematics standards. Gojak and Miles have already done the heavy-lifting for you. Focus instead on how to teach them, using The Common Core Mathematics Companion as your one-stop guide for teaching, planning, assessing, collaborating, and designing powerful mathematics curriculum.

Winner of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science and Mathematics Teaching, and director of John Carroll University’s Center for Mathematics and Science Education, Linda Gojak has spent 28 years teaching elementary and middle school mathematics and 15 years working with K–8 teachers. She has served as the president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics (NCSM), and the Ohio Council of Teachers of Mathematics.

Ruth Harbin Miles is a mathematics coach, with special expertise in developing teachers’ content knowledge and strategies for engaging students to achieve high standards in mathematics. She has served on the Board of Directors for the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics (NCSM), and both the Virginia Council of Teachers of Mathematics and the Kansas Association of Teachers of Mathematics.

Also From Corwin:

  • Gojak & Miles/Common Corwin Mathematics Companion, Grades 3-5
  • Taberski/The Common Core Companion, K-2
  • Hull/The Common Core Mathematics Standards


Key features

  • Offers direct explanation of the standards and their instructional intent
  • Aims to help teachers more deeply understand the mathematics of the common core
  • Includes practical classroom examples and visual aides that teachers can adapt and use in their classrooms
  • Includes connections between the standards
  • Includes connections to the standards of mathematical practice
Author(s)

Author(s)

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Linda M. Gojak

Winner of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science and Mathematics Teaching, Linda M. Gojak directed the Center for Mathematics and Science Education, Teaching, and Technology (CMSETT) at John Carroll University for 16 years. She has spent 28 years teaching elementary and middle school mathematics, and has served as the president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics (NCSM), and the Ohio Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
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Ruth Harbin Miles

Ruth Harbin Miles coaches rural, suburban, and inner-city school mathematics teachers. Her professional experiences include coordinating the K-12 Mathematics Teaching and Learning Program for the Olathe, Kansas, Public Schools for more than 25 years; teaching mathematics methods courses at Virginia’s Mary Baldwin College; and serving on the Board of Directors for the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematic, and both the Virginia Council of Teachers of Mathematics and the Kansas Association of Teachers of Mathematics. Ruth is a co-author of five Corwin books including A Guide to Mathematics Coaching, A Guide to Mathematics Leadership, Visible Thinking in the K-8 Mathematics Classroom, The Common Core Mathematics Standards, and Realizing Rigor in the Mathematics Classroom. As co-owner of Happy Mountain Learning, Ruth specializes in developing teachers’ content knowledge and strategies for engaging students to achieve high standards in mathematics.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Letter to K-2 Teachers

Letter to Elementary School Principals

Introduction

1. Counting and Cardinality

Domain Overview

Suggested Materials for This Domain

Key Vocabulary

Kindergarten

Reflection Questions

2. Operations and Algebraic Thinking

Domain Overview

Suggested Materials for This Domain

Key Vocabulary

Kindergarten

Grade 1

Grade 2

Reflection Questions

3. Number and Operations in Base Ten

Domain Overview

Suggested Materials for This Domain

Key Vocabulary

Key Vocabulary

Grade 1

Grade 2

Reflection Questions

4. Measurement and Data

Domain Overview

Suggested Materials for This Domain

Key Vocabulary

Kindergarten

Grade 1

Grade 2

Reflection Questions

5. Geometry

Domain Overview

Suggested Materials for This Domain

Key Vocabulary

Kindergarten

Grade 1

Grade 2

Reflection Questions

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