Materials from the UMLN Retreat,
February 13-15, 2012, Austin, Texas
Retreat goals:
- Provide opportunities for UMLN members to learn about the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSSM) from experts and pilot districts to inform their work.
- Engage in district planning to ensure strategic planning guides the professional development and implementation of the CCSSM.
- Continue to build the UMLN as a network that supports one another in the implementation of the CCSSM.
About UDLN, UDLN Districts, and Meeting Participants
Retreat agenda (pdf 235kb)
UDLN description (pdf 152kb)
Cross-district network members (pdf 98kb)
UDLN participants (pdf 112kb)
Instructional Tasks
Elementary School—Carolyn Felux, Education Director, Math Solutions
- Approaches to Help Students Build Mental Math and Computation Strategies (pdf 375kb)
- CCSS Mathematical Practices (pdf 115kb)
- CCSS Computation Thread (pdf 90kb)
- True, False, and Open Sentences Lesson
Symbols (pdf 28kb)
True or False Number Sentences (pdf 24kb; student handout)
Open Sentences (pdf 34kb; student handout)
True, False, and Open Sentences (pdf 39kb; student handout)
Tasks: True, False, and Open Sentences (pdf 54kb; description of task)
True, False, and Open Sentences (pdf 46kb; objective of task)
Middle School—David Foster, Executive Director, Silicon Valley Mathematics Initiative
- L68—Classifying Solutions to Systems of Equations (pdf 6mb; Copyrighted material)
High School—Mary Bouck, MAPS Project, UC Berkeley
- L10—Calculating Volumes of Compound Objects (pdf 2.4mb; Copyrighted material)
- L27—Rational and Irrational Numbers 1 (pdf 2.6mb; Copyrighted material)
Assessment Consortia
PARCC—Doug Sovde, Director, PARCC Instructional Supports and Educator Engagement
SBAC—Shelbi Cole, Mathematics Assessment Consultant, Connecticut State Department of Education
Unit Fractions—A Vertical Trajectory
Al Cuoco, Senior Scientist and Director, Center for Mathematics Education
- Progressions for the CCSS in Mathematics (draft) (pdf 323kb; Copyrighted material)
- Fractions (pdf 420kb; Copyrighted material)
Pilot Districts
- Baltimore City Public Schools (pdf 759kb)
- Denver Public Schools (pdf 1.6mb)
- Hillsborough County Public Schools (pdf 326kb)
CCSS Toolbox
Kathi Cook, Project Director, Charles A. Dana Center, The University of Texas at Austin
- The Mathematics Common Core Toolbox Open-Access Site
- UMLN members-only page (Note: Remember to use the username and password to access this page.)
Math Reasoning Inventory
Marilyn Burns, Founder, Math Solutions
- Find Out What Students Really Understand About Math (pdf 9.7mb)
- Math Reasoning Inventory (MRI) Info Sheet (pdf 56kb)
- What Do Your Students Really Understand About Math? Introducing Math Reasoning Inventory (Math Solutions Online Newsletter, Winter 2012, Issue 41)
- Webinar: Introduction to MRI