This presentation was used during November and March Parent Academy Nights at Shiloh Point Elementary.

1. So How Do I Help My Child?

2. What Research Tells Us About
Math Today
1. We need a rigorous set of expectations that
emphasizes conceptual understanding of key ideas
and principles.
2. Math needs to be relevant to the real world reflecting
knowledge and skills needed for success in college
and careers.
3. Math needs to follow a coherent progression of
learning for the student.

3. What Research Tells Us About
Math Today
4. The curriculum needs to focus on fewer and more
central topics.
5. The curriculum needs to be academically more
rigorous overall.

4. What We Want Our Students To Do
 Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
 Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
 Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of
others.
 Model with mathematics.
 Use appropriate tools strategically.
 Attend to precision.
 Look for and make use of structure.
 Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

5. What Does Math Look Like In
The Primary Classroom
https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/counting-by-
ten-lesson
Number Talks – Dot cards, five and ten frame, doubles
and near doubles, landmark or friendly numbers.
https://www.itslearning.com/ContentArea/ContentArea
.aspx?LocationID=16014&LocationType=1

6. What Does Math Look Like In The
Intermediate Classroom
http://www.engageny.org/resource/fractions-number-
line-and-area-model

7. So How Do I Help My Child
 Ask questions
What do you think?
How do you know this?
Why do you think this?
Can you tell me more?
What questions can you ask your teacher?
 Help them master basic facts
 Support math homework, don’t do it.

8. So How Do I Help My Child
 Teach them to do math in their head (Number Talks)
 Look to a teacher’s website, the student work book, or
ask the teacher if your child does not understand a
concept.
 Help them understand math vocabulary
 Help them solve word problems
 Make math a part of everyday life

9. Resources
 http://pta.org/content.cfm?ItemNumber=2909
 National PTA by grade level
 http://www.engageny.org/sites/default/files/resource/attachments/shifts-for-students-
and-parents.pdf
 Common Core, what parents can do.
 http://www.cgcs.org/Page/244
 Roadmap by grade level.
 http://www.ode.state.or.us/wma/teachlearn/commoncore/mat.04.pt.4.robmk.a.043-
final.v1ll.pdf
 Smarter Balance PBA
 http://www.nctm.org/resources/content.aspx?id=2878
 NCTM – Parents share tips
 http://www.nctm.org/resources/content.aspx?id=2796
 NCTM – Working with your child’s school.