CCR Standards Resources
CCRS Math Resources
CCRS Math Lesson/Unit Planning Template
This standards-aligned lesson plan template is designed to be used to incorporate the 3 CCRS Math shifts into unit/lesson plans. This template also provides opportunities to reflect on all the major content standards used in Minnesota’s ABE system and other important components of adult numeracy instruction.
CCRS Math Standards
The College and Career Readiness Standards for Adult Education (CCRS) are a central component of the content standards being implemented in Minnesota ABE. The CCRS is divided into two sections: English Language Arts and Literacy (ELA) and Mathematics.
Navigating the CCRS Tools – Math
This document provides an overview of the tools to support CCRS Implementation.
“Use Appropriate Tools Strategically.” Huh?
In this 5-minute video, Annie Fetter of the Math Forum makes a case for what teachers might do to foster this practice in our students.
Achieve the Core – Math Standards
The site describes itself as "full of free content designed to help educators understand and implement the Common Core and other college and career ready standards." Resources include CCRS-aligned tasks, activities, lessons and more, but also materials to support educators in understanding the standards and the content.
Achieving TABE Success in Math Level D – Evaluation
The resource evaluated here for math CCRS alignment is Contemporary's Achieving TABE Success in Math Level D.
Adding Money
This CCRS Level C Math Lesson Plan focuses on helping students add decimals using concrete models.
Borrowing/Carrying –> Regrouping
Participants in this workout learn to teach strategies that support conceptual understanding of place value instead of the algorithm.
Breakthrough to Math Level 1 – Evaluation
The resource evaluated here for Mathematics CCRS alignment is Breakthrough to Math Level 1 from New Readers Press.
Building Conceptual Understanding
Participants in this workout consider the conceptual understanding behind the traditional algorithm for long division and then recognize the importance of building students’ conceptual understanding beyond this example of long division and into every area of math.
CCRS Individualized Instruction Planning Tool – Math
The CCRS Individualized Instruction Planning Tool is intended to help teachers in one-room school house or other individualized instruction settings plan and document standards-aligned experiences for all students. This document could be used as a teacher planning tool or as a tracking document in a student’s folder.
CCRS Math Content Progressions
This document contains the mathematics CCRS organized by level and also by domain, to highlight the important progressions in the CCRS. Standards associated with the Major Work of the Level (MWOTL) are also identified in this document.
CCRS Mathematical Practice 1 – Webcast
This webcast highlights Mathematical Practice 1 - Make sense of problems. It is one of a series of 8 webcasts, the purpose of which is to give adult educators a better sense of each of the 8 Mathematical Practices of the CCRS and to suggest ways to encourage the Practices with their students.
CCRS Mathematical Practice 2 – Webcast
This webcast highlights Mathematical Practice 2 - Reason abstractly. It is one of a series of 8 webcasts, the purpose of which is to give adult educators a better sense of each of the 8 Mathematical Practices of the CCRS and to suggest ways to encourage the Practices with their students.
CCRS Mathematical Practice 3 – Webcast
This webcast highlights Mathematical Practice 3 - Construct viable arguments. It is one of a series of 8 webcasts, the purpose of which is to give adult educators a better sense of each of the 8 Mathematical Practices of the CCRS and to suggest ways to encourage the Practices with their students.
CCRS Mathematical Practice 4 – Webcast
This webcast highlights Mathematical Practice 4 - Model with mathematics. It is one of a series of 8 webcasts, the purpose of which is to give adult educators a better sense of each of the 8 Mathematical Practices of the CCRS and to suggest ways to encourage the Practices with their students.
CCRS Mathematical Practice 5 – Webcast
This webcast highlights Mathematical Practice 5 - Use appropriate tools. It is one of a series of 8 webcasts, the purpose of which is to give adult educators a better sense of each of the 8 Mathematical Practices of the CCRS and to suggest ways to encourage the Practices with their students.
CCRS Mathematical Practice 6 – Webcast
This webcast highlights Mathematical Practice 6 - Attend to precision. It is one of a series of 8 webcasts, the purpose of which is to give adult educators a better sense of each of the 8 Mathematical Practices of the CCRS and to suggest ways to encourage the Practices with their students.
CCRS Mathematical Practice 7 – Webcast
This webcast highlights Mathematical Practice 7 - Make use of structure. It is one of a series of 8 webcasts, the purpose of which is to give adult educators a better sense of each of the 8 Mathematical Practices of the CCRS and to suggest ways to encourage the Practices with their students.
CCRS Mathematical Practice 8 – Webcast
This webcast highlights Mathematical Practice 8 - Express regularity. It is one of a series of 8 webcasts, the purpose of which is to give adult educators a better sense of each of the 8 Mathematical Practices of the CCRS and to suggest ways to encourage the Practices with their students.
Common Core (K-12) Math Standards
The College & Career Readiness Standards (CCRS) are based on the Common Core standards. Some teachers who teach low levels of numeracy have found looking at the kindergarten and first grade Common Core math standards helpful.
Common Core Achieve – Evaluation
The resource evaluated here for Mathematics CCRS alignment is McGraw-Hill's Common Core Achieve.
Describing & Distinguishing Shapes
This beginning ESL Math Lesson/Unit Plan focuses on acquiring and using vocabulary to describe the attributes of shapes and groups of objects.
GED Number Line – Evaluation
The resource evaluated here for math CCRS alignment is Edmentum's GED Number Line.
GED Test Strategies Practice and Review – Evaluation
The resource evaluated here for math CCRS alignment is Kaplan's GED Test Strategies Practice and Review.
Generate & Analyze Patterns
This Low to High Intermediate ABE (CCRS Level B-C) Math Lesson/Unit Plan focuses on standard 4.OA.5, generate and analyze patterns.
Intro to Algebra, an Applied Approach – Evaluation
The resource evaluated here for math CCRS alignment is Intro to Algebra, an Applied Approach.
Let’s Talk About Dots!
Participants in this workout identify a low-risk strategy for students to see math as patterns and practice speaking about patterns,articulate ways to encourage student sharing around math topics, and consider the creativity present in math.
Making Sense of a Standard
Participants in this workout break apart a given standard into meaningful sections, and articulate the relationship between the content of the sections. They then brainstorm strategies, objectives and learning targets for a given standard.
Math CCRS Evaluation & High Value Action Alignment Tool
Use this tool to determine a resource’s (curriculum, text, lesson, book, etc.) level of CCRS alignment and to identify specific high-value actions to improve a resource’s alignment to the CCRS. Use the embedded note sheet to record your thoughts.
Math Ceiling
This post from Math with Bad Drawings blog explores the following questions related to the Key Shift of rigor: Do we have a "math ceiling" where some math is beyond our ability to comprehend? If a student can perform the math task I am targeting without conceptual understanding (i.e., they know the procedure, but not why it works), do they really need more?
Math Connection Grade 4 – Evaluation
The resource evaluated here for math CCRS alignment is Math Connection Grade 4 from Rainbow Bridge Publishing.
Math Practices in the Virtual Classroom
Participants in this workout have the opportunity to experience a task as a student (making origami shapes!), and to reflect on how to use this task with learners to develop a classroom culture (virtual or otherwise) that embeds the math practices.
Math Sense 2, Focus on Problem Solving – Evaluation
The resource evaluated here for Mathematics CCRS alignment is Math Sense 2, Focus on Problem Solving from New Readers Press.
Mathematics CCRS Instructional Task Study Tool
Use this tool to guide small group analysis of student tasks and accompanying student work to identify how effectively they reflect the intended standards.
Mathematics CCRS Observation Tool
Use this tool to guide observations of standards-based instruction in classroom settings.
Mathematics CCRS-Aligned Lesson/Unit Planning Template
Use this tool to create units or lessons aligned to the Minnesota ABE State Standards (CCRS, ACES, Northstar).
Notice and Wonder about Data: Using Slow Reveal Graphs
Participants in this workout work with slow reveal graphs to notice and wonder about data and experience the activity just as they would present it to students.
Number Power Fractions, Decimals, and Percents – Evaluation
The resource evaluated here for math CCRS alignment is Contemporary’s Number Power Fractions, Decimals, and Percents.
Pre-HSE MATH 2 Algebraic Thinking, Data Analysis, and Probability – Evaluation
The resource evaluated here for math CCRS alignment is Pre-HSE MATH 2 Algebraic Thinking, Data Analysis, and Probability.
Prep for the GED (Math) Unit 7: Functions & Graphs – Evaluation
The resource evaluated here for math CCRS alignment is PLATO's Prep for the GED (Math) Unit 7: Functions & Graphs.
Remote Instruction Resources – Math
See the Remote Instruction section under Instructional Resources in the ATLAS online Numeracy library for remote math/numeracy instructional resources.
Scientific Method
This CCRS Level D Math Lesson/Unit Plan focuses on students using their Scientific Method skills and graphing abilities in their future careers as they work to problem solve situations.
Smart Consuming
This CCRS Levels C & D Math Lesson Plan focuses on helping students learn tips and tricks for better managing money.
Supplying the Answer
Participants in this Math Teacher Workout consider how “devaluing the answer” leads to rich mathematical conversations and deeper learning for students as well as gain comfort with Mathematical Practice 3: Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
The “Why” Behind Cross-Multiplication
Participants in this workout examine why only teaching the process of “cross-multiplying and dividing” without developing conceptual understanding of this process is detrimental to student learning and will understand the importance of teaching conceptual understanding for commonly used algorithms.
What Does “Coherence” Look Like?
Author Robert Kaplinsky's accessible explanation addresses what coherence looks like in math instruction.
What Does It Really Mean to Look for and Make Use of Structure?
Description: "We will work to clarify what MP7 looks like in K-5 classrooms by exploring generalizations about operating with odd and even numbers, examining both addends unknown problems, developing mathematical arguments, and creating representations to prove our claims. We will also analyze student thinking around these ideas with the use of classroom video."
Where Do Math, ELA and Science Standards Overlap?
A graphic organizer to show that the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for Mathematics, English Language Arts, and Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) have significant overlap and can be collectively implemented for students’ benefit.
Workwise: Math at Work – Evaluation
The resource evaluated here for math CCRS alignment is Workwise: Math at Work from New Readers Press.