PARCC
Mathematical Practices
Structure
Instructional Shifts
Connections
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www.parcconline.org
What is the PARCC website address?
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What is the number of mathematical practices in the CCSS-M?
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These define what students should understand and be able to do.
What are standards?
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 Focus  Coherence  Fluency  Deep Understanding  Applications  Dual Intensity
What are the 6 instructional shifts?
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These are not intended to be new names for old ways of doing business.
What are the Common Core Standards?
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The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers.
What is PARCC?
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Varieties of expertise that mathematics educators at all levels should seek to develop in their students.
What are the mathematical Practices?
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These are groups of related standards. The standards within these may be closely related because mathematics is a connected subject.
What are Clusters?
200
Teachers create opportunities for students to participate in application “drills” and make use of those skills through extended application of math concepts.
What is Dual Intensity?
200
Students who lack understanding of a topic may rely on these too heavily.
What are procedures?
300
Published answers to frequently used PARCC assessment system terms and definitions.
What is the PARCC FAQ and Glossary?
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Mathematically proficient students check their answers to problems using a different method, and they continually ask themselves, “Does this make sense?”
What is "Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them"?
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Large groups of related standards.
What are domains?
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Teachers teach more than “how to get the answer” and instead support students’ ability to access concepts from a number of perspectives. Thus, students are able to see math as more than a set of mnemonics or discrete procedures.
What is Deep Understanding?
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In this respect, those content standards which set an expectation of understanding are potential “points of intersection” between these.
What are the Standards for Mathematical Content and the Standards for Mathematical Practice.
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>Determine whether students are college- and career-ready or on track. >Measure the full range of student performance, including the performance of high- and low-performing students. >Provide data during the academic year to inform instruction, interventions and professional development
What are some of the priority purposes of PARCC assessments?
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Mathematically proficient students make conjectures and build a logical progression of statements to explore the truth of their conjectures.
What is construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others?
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Lower in number than the standards, these are what the majority of teaching time should focus on for each oarticular grade level.
What are critical areas?
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Critical to ensure that students learn the most important content completely, rather than succumb to an overly broad survey of content, this shifts over time.
What is Focus?
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These foster student engagement by presenting information in multiple ways and allowing for diverse avenues of action and expression.
What are instructional supports?
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The samples presented here are designed to shine a light on important elements of the CCSS and to show how critical content in the standards may appear in PARCC’s next-generation, technology-based assessments.
What are the sample questions provided by PARCC?
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Mathematically proficient students try to communicate precisely to others.
What is attend to precision?
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An approach typically seen in the U.S. that consists of two algebra courses and a geometry course, with some data, probability and statistics included in each course. It assumes mathematics in each year of high school and leads directly to college and career preparedness.
What is the traditional pathway?
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To attain this, teachers support students’ ability to access concepts from a number of perspectives, thus students are able to see math as more than a set of mnemonics or discrete procedures.
What is Deep Undrestandin?
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It is this idea that over time ,will allow research on learning progressions to inform and improve the design of standards to a much greater extent than is possible today.
What is common state standards?
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