April 27

CAD Responsibilities

Agenda: Jana    
Notes: Kimberly 
Time Keeper: Ann  

Norms
*Begin & end on time
*Members come prepared with resources and knowledge
*Members are active and respectful listeners and participants
*Members are open minded and professional
*Members are focused on student and staff learning
*There are no excuses

Agenda (Print agenda for each person to have during CAD) 
2:05 - 2:10 Sign-in to Google Drive/Be ready to start CAD

2:10 - 2:20 Review Norms/Reflect

*Let's set a timer for each person, so one person is speaking at a time. Also, we want to keep our reflection to the specified time limit.

2:20 - 3:15 - 
- Reflect on end of the year skills review 
- Brainstorm ideas for last Parent Math Academy- ideas for parents to use this summer 
-Geometry Test 

NOTES:
Erin - Take the geometry test tomorrow, students struggled with end of the year skills review, delaying Disney investigation to review on white boards

Rachel- Took Skill assessment last week, but kids are stumped in wording.  Odometer question caused part of confusion.  Took Global Scholar today and all are in green, total scaled score average difference is 159.  Kudos to her kids.

Ann- Global Scholar is Thursday and Geometry test Friday.

Jana - Completed Disney last week.  Kids enjoyed that investigation. Strategies resorted back to repeated addition.  Slightly disappointed in strategies.  High kids have flown through Fractions menu. Started Global Scholar day 1 today.

Kimberly - Global Scholar begins Thursday.  Skills review looks like it is hit or miss.  Common mistakes are lots of basic addition and subtraction facts and some multiplication facts!   Several still have not finished.

Sara - Skills assessment wasn't good.  Odometer problem was challenging!  Multiplicative comparison was challenging as well.  Drill on subtraction.  Some operational skills to re-teach. Looking for ways to do that.  :)


Geometry Assessment:
Number 12 is worded crazy.  Answer choice "A" is also correct.  Give credit for either of them.

Subtraction is very weak and we didn't teach it.  Lots of basic skills are missing at this point.

Skills review is based on each class.  Erin suggested to come up with individual skill reviews in each class.

Looking forward into the next year, go into teaching with more direct instruction.  Discovery is very important, but maybe more balance.  Reflecting back to the "Teacher's Lounge" several spent time going through the motions instead of truly walking away with "ah-ha" moments.  

Division - they are wanting to hold onto multiplication strategies to solve.  Open area strategy was weak among several classes.  Children are stuck with breaking it apart because we have spent so much time on breaking it apart with place value.
-Ratio Tables, break apart strategies, doubling

Spiral review throughout the year would be a great start to get the kids not to "forget" skills taught.

Activities for the summer for the next math academy to tell parents what to do to brush up on basic facts.  Array cards, DreamBox schedule, Multiplication facts, Learn Zillion codes for each skill, division fact fluency

Eureka Math has a bunch more to it than we are currently able to see.

It's important to do vertical alignment in science.