MIW Math Mentor Meeting
Attendees: Sara Holt, Beth Cory, Phyllis Jones, Rebecca Galli, Clare Harrington, Karen Bubar
Agenda:
- Mid year assessment data overview. How did it go?
- like the summative view
- length was good
- no news is good news
- helped with progress reports, but didn't make or break it.
- 2nd grade - could they assess during intervention group time?
- like in January - assessment chaos is done and over
- In a perfect world, how often would your team meet to discuss math? (thinking ahead to planning calendar for next year)
- if no other meetings, once a month - meeting length would be dependent upon need
- twice a month - once for how we are teaching/instruction, one for logistical/details
- math labsites - special ed included as well
- meetings would help keep everyone uniformly informed
- K- need more time to really enhance program. EDM is not providing enough.
- NOT lunch time, dedicated Wednesday time
- Whole school math PD
- Math fact goals
- CCSS.Math.Content.K.OA.A.5 Fluently add and subtract within 5. - K will look into assessing this by the end of the year.
- CCSS.Math.Content.1.OA.C.6 Add and subtract within 20, demonstrating fluency for addition and subtraction within 10. - Grade 1 currently does +/- 0 and 1, doubles, +10. Susie- results from last year trying out different facts.
- CCSS.Math.Content.2.OA.B.2 Fluently add and subtract within 20 using mental strategies.2By end of Grade 2, know from memory all sums of two one-digit numbers. - Need to re-assess how we incorporate fact practice and assessing.
- CCSS.Math.Content.3.OA.C.7 . . .By the end of Grade 3, know from memory all products of two one-digit numbers.
- Newsletter ideas - reminder about Homelink is to make connection between school and home. No tears allowed, it is Ok to stop, write a note if needed. Home knows what is going on.
- edm site with videos
- apps for kids, reminder about apps
- estimation skills
- New book - Doing Math in Morning Meeting: 150 Quick Activities That Connect to Your Curriculum by Andy Dousis andMargaret Berry Wilson (Aug 16, 2010)
- Change April 14th to April 7th - Changed to April 7th
- Discussion on the Mathematical Practice - Attend to Precision
- CCSS.Math.Practice.MP6 Attend to precision.Mathematically proficient students try to communicate precisely to others. They try to use clear definitions in discussion with others and in their own reasoning. They state the meaning of the symbols they choose, including using the equal sign consistently and appropriately. They are careful about specifying units of measure, and labeling axes to clarify the correspondence with quantities in a problem. They calculate accurately and efficiently, express numerical answers with a degree of precision appropriate for the problem context. In the elementary grades, students give carefully formulated explanations to each other. By the time they reach high school they have learned to examine claims and make explicit use of definitions.
- Beth updated group on K-12 Math task force
