PSM Parent Workshop

Providence St. Mel School

Parent Enrichment Workshop

Saturday, November 10, 2012

Dr. Marsha Landau

mathmarsha.blogspot.com

mathmarsha@comcast.net

Introduction

CCSS and Assessment:

Common Core Math Standards

Smarter Balanced Assessments - Smarter Balanced Assessment ...

Performance Tasks - Mathematics - Moving To the Common Core

Improving Constructed Response Answers in Math

Problem Festival

sources of the problems:

Bear Watching (starts on page 7)

Quilt pattern (sheet #7)

Measuring Around the House (page 120)

Fill in the shapes with numbers

Apple Farm Field Trip

Top Lunch Choices

Cookies on a Tray (page 91)

Goldfish Bowls (page 6)

Birthday Decoration (page 28)

The Math Test (page 56)

3000 meter race (please add Floyd to the first sentence!)

Texting (page 106)

Sally's room
Mary's shopping (see Day 2)
chickens and dogs
Ethan rakes (starts at bottom of page 5)
Halves

Lifespan of an Umbrella (page 7)

Truffles

Environmental Club
Number Pattern (see Day 110)
Cat Food
Averages
Soup and beans
Vincent's Graphs
Marble Game

Hurdles Race (see it on page 399)

online interactive manipulatives

Just a quick note about an excellent website that is definitely worth many minutes of exploration:

Virtual Manipulatives