Our Students.
Their Moment.
Engage New York

Our Purpose
• Briefly look at the reason for College and
Career Ready Standards in Kansas
• Learn more about the Engage NY Math
Curriculum
• Examine the Shifts in Math within the standards
• Learn how to help our students with math and available resources for guidance

College and Career
Ready Video
Three-Minute Video Explaining the
Common Core State Standards
Click Here

What is Engage NY?
• EngageNY is an initiative initially launched by the New York State
Education Department, which has now spread across the nation.
• It is designed to help parents and educators grasp the new standards set forth by recently implemented changes in the educational system.

Engage NY
• The website found online at www.engageny.org
includes multiple resources to help parents and guardians understand the changes, the
College and Career Ready
Standards, and what they can do to help their children continually improve.

A Closer Look: Mathematics Shifts
• Focus: learn more about less
• Build skills across grades
• Develop speed and accuracy
• Really know it, Really do it
• Use it in the real world
• Think fast AND solve problems
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Shift #1 Build Skills
Across Grade Levels
• What to LOOK for in the Backpack?
• What parents can do to help?
• Look for assignments that build on one another year after year.
• Know what concepts your child struggled with last year and support your child in those areas
• Give support for “gap” skills such as fractions

Traditional U.S. Approach
Number and
Operations
K 12
Measurement and
Geometry
Algebra and
Functions
Statistics and
Probability
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Kansas College and Career Ready
Standards Approach
Operations and
Algebraic Thinking
→
Expressions and
Equations
→
Number and
Operations—Base Ten
→
Number and
Operations
—Fractions
→
The
Number
System
→
Algebra
K 1 2 3
K 1 2
4
3
5
4 5
6 7
6 7
8 High School
High School

Shift #2 Learn More
About Less
• What to LOOK for in the Backpack?
• What parents can do to help?
• Look for assignments that require students to show their work and explain how they arrived at an answer
• Know what concepts are important for your child’s grade level and spend time working on them

Shift #3 Develop Speed and Accuracy
• What to LOOK for in the Backpack?
• What parents can do to help?
• Look for assignments that ask your child to master math facts such as addition groupings up to 20 or multiplication tables
• Help your child know and memorize basic math facts
• Ask your child to
“do the math” that comes up in daily life

Required Fluencies by
Grade Level
Grade
K
1
2
7
8
3
4
5
6
Required Fluency
Add/subtract within 5
Add/subtract within 10
Add/subtract within 20
Add/subtract within 100 (paper and pencil)
Multiply/divide within 100
Add/subtract within 1,000
Add/subtract within 1,000,000
Multi-digit multiplication
Multi-digit division
Multi-digit decimal operations
Solve px+q=r,p(x+q)=r
Solve simple 2x2 systems by inspection

Fluency in Action
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Shift #4 Really Know It,
Really Do It
• What to LOOK for in the
Backpack?
• What parents can do to help?
• Your student might have assignments that ask them to show or explain their mathematical thinkingto SAY why they think their answer is the right one
• Provide time for your child to work on math skills at home
• Talk to your child about their math homework and ask them to teach you new concepts. Help them figure out ways to explain their thinking.

They Can Do IT
• LaToya Brooklyn Parent
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Shift #5 Use Math in the
Real World
• What to LOOK for in the Backpack?
• What parents can do to help?
• Look for assignments that are based on the real world.
Example, 5 th Grade may add fractions as part of a recipe
• Provide time every day for your child to work on math at home
• Ask them to do the math that comes up in daily life

Real World Problems
• NTI November 2012 Rigor
Breakdown - Visual Fraction
Models
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Shift #6 Think Fast AND
Solve Problems
• What to LOOK for in the Backpack?
• What parents can do to help?
• Assignments that spend time practicing by doing lots of problems on the same idea
• Push children to know, understand and memorize basic math facts
• Know all the fluencies you child should have

Chances are…
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Getting to the Modules
• Look for Beginning Module
Newsletters to inform you about the math your student will be doing
• Below is the link to get to the math your students will be doing. https://www.engageny.org/common-core-curriculum

Sample Math Problems
• Let’s Do Some Work

Sample Problems
• Sample problems may be found at http://www.engageny.org/resource/new-yorkstate-common-core-sample-questions
• Beginning Modules Newsletters
• With Student’s Daily Homework
• Email your child’s teacher or school

Additional Resources
• www.achievethecore.org
• www.pta.org/4446.htm
• http://www.cgcs.org/Domain/36
• http://parcconline.org/parcccontent-frameworks