St. Regis Catholic SchoolElementary and Academy

Common Core Math Standards and IOWA Overview

Common Core Math Standards• What are they?• Why do we need to use them?

Two plus two should equal four, no matter where you are.

Common Core Math Standards

• Building on the excellent foundation of standards states have laid, these standards are the first step in providing our young people with a high‐quality education.

It should be clear to every student, parent, and teacher what the standards of success are in every school.

• The common core standards focus on core conceptual understandings and procedures starting in the early grades, thus enabling teachers to take the time needed to teach core concepts and procedures well ‐‐ and to give students the opportunity to really master them.

In kindergarten, the standards follow successful international models and recommendations from the National Research Council’s Early Math Panel Report, by focusing kindergarten work on the number core: learning how numbers correspond to quantities, and learning how to put numbers together and take them apart (the beginnings of addition and subtraction).

• The K‐5 standards provide students with a solid foundation in:

• Whole Numbers• Addition• Subtraction• Multiplication• Division• Fractions and DecimalsThis allows for students to apply more demanding math concepts and procedures, and move into applications

It is all about critical thinking and conceptual understanding

• Having built a strong foundation K‐5, students can do hands on learning in geometry, algebra and probability and statistics.

• Students who have completed 7th grade and mastered the content and skills through the 7th grade will be well‐ prepared for algebra in grade 8.

The middle school standards are robust and provide a coherent and rich preparation for high school mathematics.

• The middle school standards are robust and provide a coherent and rich preparation for high school mathematics.

• These documents are merely a guide, created after viewing International Best Practices in classrooms and schools around the world.

• Why would we not want to look and try to initiate more growth in ourselves and in our classrooms?

• In education, we pride ourselves as being the example, initiators of change. change can lead to growth if applied with a concerted effort and a sound plan of action.

IOWA Assessment Tool and St. Regis Catholic School…

The IOWA is the MOST recognized National Assessment Tool in the United States

Percentile Versus Percentage Explanation

Suppose 100 people take a test of 50 items.

If one of them got 40 of the items correct, then the percentage that he got correct is 80. He got 80 percent of the items correct.

But we don't know what percentile he is in until we see what scores the other 99 people got.

Suppose that all 99 of those other people got only 60% (or fewer) of the items correct.

Then the person who got 80% did better than all other 99 people. He did better than 99% of the whole group of 100, so he is in the 99th percentile.

1st Grade Snapshot

What you should see:• Above grade level• 20-42 percentiles above the

national average

Grade 1• Operations and Algebraic

Thinking• Number and Operations in Base

Ten• Measurements and Data• Geometry

2nd Grade Snapshot

What you should see:• Above grade level• 3-25 percentiles above the

national average

Grade 2• Operations and Algebraic

Thinking• Number and Operations in

Base Ten• Measurements and Data• Geometry

3rd Grade Snapshot

What you should see:• Above grade level• 8-26 percentiles above the national

average

Grade 3• Operations and Algebraic Thinking• Number and Operations in Base Ten• Numbers and Operations-

FRACTIONS• Measurements and Data• Geometry

4th Grade Snapshot

What you should see:• Above grade level in all areas

except computation • 9-30 percentiles above the national

average

Grade 4• Operations and Algebraic Thinking• Number and Operations in Base Ten• Numbers and Operations-

Fractions• Measurements and Data• Geometry

5th Grade Snapshot

What you should see:• Above grade level• 13-31 percentiles above the

national average

Grade 5• Operations and Algebraic

Thinking• Number and Operations in Base

Ten• Numbers and Operations-

Fractions• Measurements and Data• Geometry

6th Grade Snapshot

What you should see:• Above grade level• 10-31 percentiles above the

national averageGrade 6 (Notice the Change in Concepts)• Ratios and Proportional

Relationships• The Number System• Expressions and Equations• Geometry• Statistics and Probability

7th Grade Snapshot

What you should see:• Above grade level• 20-32 percentiles above the

national averageGrade 7• Ratios and Proportional

Relationships• The Number System• Expressions and Equations• Geometry• Statistics and Probability

8th Grade Snapshot

What you should see:• Above grade level• 22-34 percentiles above the national

average

Grade 8• Ratios and Proportional Relationships• The Number System• Expressions and Equations• Functions• Geometry• Statistics and Probability

What to take away from this presentation…