Common Core State Standards and Math

Rich Mathematical Tasks to Support Formative Assessment

Rich Mathematical Tasks to Support Formative Assessment

The four-part Formative Assessment Webinar Series explores strategies for strengthening the role of formative assessment in mathematics instruction. In the series’ fourth and final interactive session, Dr. Sara Delano Moore focused on the power of rich mathematical tasks to support formative assessment.

Hands-On Learning to Support Formative Assessment

Hands-On Learning to Support Formative Assessment

Our four-part Formative Assessment Webinar Series explores strategies for strengthening the role of formative assessment in mathematics instruction. In our third interactive session, Dr. Sara Delano Moore, Ph. D., Director of Mathematics and Science at ETA hand2mind, focused on the use of manipulatives to support formative assessment.

Problem Solving and Operations: Multiplication and Division

Problem Solving and Operations: Multiplication and Division

The Common Core State Standards in Mathematics describe eighteen different varieties of math problems which can be solved by multiplication and/or division. In a typical textbook, only a handful of these problem varieties are addressed.