Mathematics
Program Updates and Resources
We strongly encourage
anyone who is interested in learning about the daily challenges and successes
our teachers experience in teaching mathematics to make arrangements to visit several
mathematics classrooms at different grade levels and to talk with different
mathematics teachers. (Please
contact the Curriculum Office at (330) 689-5440.)
We welcome collaborative
discourse that will help us to provide highly educative experiences to all
students.
Resources:
Board of Education mathematics update - October 22,
2007 (Powerpoint – updated 11/9/07 with additional survey data)
California Dreaming:
Reforming Mathematics Education – A book by Suzanne Wilson (2003) that
presents the history of, and many perspectives related to, mathematics
education reform in California and across the United States
Ohio
Achievement Tests – Released mathematics tests and scoring rubrics in
grades 3-8 from 2005-2007 – We encourage anyone who is unfamiliar with
the content and scoring of these tests to download previous tests and rubrics
to learn what our students are expected to know and be able to do each May.
Ohio Academic Content Standards in Mathematics (2001)
– Includes K-12 standards, benchmarks, and indicators. See pages 193-202 (labeled as pages
189-198 in the document itself) for a commentary on basic skills and
mathematical processes.
Final report of the Science and
Mathematics Education Policy Advisory Council – A 2006 report
produced by 23 Ohio citizens, leaders in business and industry, NASA, K-12
education, higher education, and the Ohio Department of Education, to recommend
five focuses for mathematics and science education in Ohio in the coming years
Math is More – A new organization
of educators and mathematicians working ³toward a national consensus on
improving U.S. mathematics education²
Partnership for 21st
Century Skills – An organization dedicated to ³infusing 21st
century skills into education²
College Board Mathematics Standards
(2006) – The new middle school and high school mathematics recommendations
set forth by the organization that produces the SAT and the Advanced Placement
(AP) Tests
ACT
mathematics information – Current information about the mathematics
requirements on the ACT (includes calculator policy)
SAT
mathematics information – Current information about the mathematics
requirements on the SAT (includes calculator policy)
California Mathematics Council – The
home page of the largest statewide mathematics education organization in the
nation; also visit http://www.cmc-math.org/issues for a
discussion of issues of interest to parents and teachers