Digging Deeper into the Math
- Iowa Department of Education Mathematics Instruction
- Common Core State Standards Progression Documents: The Common Core State Standards in mathematics were built on progressions: narrative documents describing the progression of a topic across a number of grade levels, informed both by research on children’s cognitive development and by the logical structure of mathematics.
Teaching the Math
- Inside Mathematics: A professional resource for educators to improve students’ mathematics learning and performance. This site features classroom examples of innovative teaching methods and insights into student learning, tools for mathematics instruction that teachers can use immediately, and video tours of the ideas and materials on the site. Explore materials and tasks you can use immediately with your students. Inside Mathematics has aligned our tasks and assessment resources with the Common Core State Standards for Mathematical Content.
- Illustrative Mathematics: Illustrative Mathematics is designed to illustrate the range and types of mathematical work that students experience in a faithful implementation of the Common Core State Standards. Classroom lessons on the standards are provided.
- Clarifying expectations for teachers & students: These flipbooks are available for checkout to Central Rivers AEA teachers from Central Rivers AEA Media. They unpack the grade-appropriate standards for math content. They connect the Enduring Understands and Essential Questions for Mathematical Practices to each standard. Each page unpacks the grade-level-specific standards into clear teacher-friendly text.
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