Mathematics

Math

The citywide instructional expectations ask educators in grades K-8 to begin to think about how to reorganize math content to teach fewer topics allowing for more time to focus on the major work of the grade. We are offering flexible sets of supports so you can choose which makes sense based on your school’s current curriculum and context. Each option has strengths and challenges. Review the overview carefully to better understand which one could best serve your school and your students.

New York State has released guidance on which Common Core math standards are expected to be taught pre- and post test administration. Using the guidance, along with the resources on the Common Core Library, teachers should plan to spend more instructional time through April on the major cluster standards listed as “Sept-April” and less time on the standards listed as “May-June”, which are more closely related to the standards for the following grade and could be assessed on the assessment for the following grade. Consistent with the State's mathematics testing guidance and the recently released K-5 scope and sequence guidance, adjustments have been made to the Scope and Sequence Samples and Mathematics Overviews for Impact Math and were posted on September 17th.

Scope and Sequence Guidance Options

1. Core Curriculum Alignment Guidance for Everyday Mathematics
These resources provide guidance about how Everyday Mathematics’ lessons align to the Common Core grade-level content standards and the Mathematical Practices. They indicate whether the standards covered in each lesson are within major, supporting, or additional clusters, based on the Math Content Emphases.
2. Scope and Sequence Samples for grades K-8
These resources offer a high-level Common Core-aligned scope and sequence that demonstrates a focus on the major work of the grade, which the SED has indicated will be the focus for next year’s 3-8 State exams. It represents one way that a school may choose to organize and teach the full range of the standards before the state test.
3. Mathematics Overviews for Impact Math
These documents are built based on the Scope and Sequence Samples and show how Impact Math can support addressing the standards included. However, the resources within each unit are not sequenced but rather listed by standard. Using this document would require sequencing available resources listed within units appropriately, and augmenting as necessary, to teach units that fully address the standards represented.