Progressions+Documents

=Progressions Documents for the Common Core Mathematics Standards =

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The following is an excerpt from the webpage of [|Arizona State University's Institute for Mathematics and Education], from which Dr. William McCallum is affiliated. Dr. McCallum is a lead author of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, and the Chair for the Progressions Documents Project. =====

"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. These documents were spliced together and then sliced into grade level standards. From that point on the work focused on refining and revising the grade level standards. The early drafts of the progressions documents no longer correspond to the current state of the standards.

It is important to produce up-to-date versions of the progressions documents. They can explain why standards are sequenced the way they are, point out cognitive difficulties and pedagogical solutions, and give more detail on particularly knotty areas of the mathematics. This would be useful in teacher preparation and professional development, organizing curriculum, and writing textbooks. Progressions documents also provide a transmission mechanism between mathematics education research and standards. Research about learning progressions produces knowledge which can be transmitted through the progressions document to the standards revision process; questions and demands on standards writing can be transmitted back the other way into research questions."

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To best understand the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, it is important for teachers to come together and share in dialogue both within and across grade levels. It is equally necessary for teachers to know what learning comes before and after their designated grade level. Please utilize these links to access the Progressions Documents for the Common Core Mathematics Standards. =====

[|K-5 Progression on Counting and Cardinality and Operations and Algebraic Thinking]

[|K-5 Progression on Number and Operations in Base Ten]

[|K-6 Progression on Geometry]

[|K-5 Progression on Measurement and Data (Geometric Measurement Portion)]

[|K-5 Progression on Measurement and Data (Data Portion)]

[|3-5 Progression on Number and Operations - Fractions]

[|6-7 Progression on Ratios and Proportional Relationships]

[|6-8 Progressions on Expressions and Equations]

[|6-8 Progression on Statistics and Probability]

[|High School Progression on Statistics and Probability]