Assignment

Directions: Please make sure all your work is done in your own words. Cut and pasted answers directly from the lessons will not be accepted. If things are not in your own words you will not get credit. Also, if you want full credit on an answer, have your answers be detailed and in depth. The more you put into the answers the more you will learn and get out of the experience. Make sure you are following the Assignment Rubric that is attached when formatting your answers.

Lesson 3 —You have two assignments to complete for this lesson:

1. Processing the Math Shifts

Read the document titled Key Shifts of the Common Core Standards in Mathematics (See attached). For each of the math shifts listed below, please answer the following:

1. What is this shift, and why is this shift needed? 2. What opportunities does this shift present? 3. What challenges does this shift present?

Math Shifts

1. Focus strongly where standards focus 2. Coherence: think across grades and link to major topics within grades 3. Rigor in major topics

2. Rigor

1. Make a true statement: Rigor = ________________ + ________________ + _________________

2. The standards require a shift towards rigor. Using the three components of rigor that you identified in Question 1, locate Common Core Standards for Grade 3 or Grade 6 that require each component of rigor.

Grade 3 or 6 standards that require ____________________________: Grade 3 or 6 standards that require ____________________________: Grade 3 or 6 standards that require ____________________________: