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 | N.J. education board reaffirms support for common core Members of the New Jersey State Board of Education voted Wednesday to reaffirm their support for the Common Core State Standards. The reaffirmation comes as parents and the New Jersey Education Association called for a rollback or delay of implementation. "We have not rushed into this. It's a smooth transition and in New Jersey, at least, the program is going to work," said Joseph Fisicaro, board vice president. The Star-Ledger (Newark, N.J.) (2/12)  |
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 | Pa. middle school seeks to add robotics to its curriculum Educators from a Pennsylvania middle school recently told school board members why robotics would be a good addition to the school's curriculum. They noted that the discipline spans a range of topics taught in science, technology, engineering and math. Robotics also would teach students job skills for the future, they noted. "It's not just your mathematics people or your computer science people. It's your engineers. It's your material science people," science teacher Mike Reynolds said. "There are so many branches coming together to fund and push this type of work." The Titusville Herald (Pa.) (2/12) | Fla. district to use data teams to crunch schools' numbers Superintendent Rick Mills of the Manatee County School District in Florida said school-data teams will be used to analyze and interpret information from each school, including student assessments, attendance and drop-out rates. Data teams will meet regularly with teachers by grade and content area to determine whether students are on track to graduate. "We want to find where our challenges are," Mills said. Bradenton Herald (Fla.) (2/12) Other News | Teaching with problem solving Problem solving plays an important role in mathematics and should have a prominent role in the mathematics education of K–12 students. However, knowing how to incorporate problem solving meaningfully into the mathematics curriculum is not necessarily obvious to mathematics teachers. Read more in NCTM's research brief about problem solving. Problem solving with the common core NCTM's four volumes in the Implementing the Common Core State Standards through Mathematical Problem Solving series illuminate a crucial link between problem solving and the Common Core State Standards. The books provide teachers with dozens of problems that they can use as is, adapt for their classrooms, or be inspired by while creating related problems on other topics. The kindergarten–grade 2, grades 6–8, and high school volumes are now available, and the grades 3–5 volume will be published April 2014. NCTM members can save 25% on these and all NCTM publications with the code SUM25; offer expires Feb. 28.
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