FEB+Math+Team

Resource - Tara Hamlett
__2/8/12__ - All members present
 * 1st and 2nd grades would like to be trained on the ARMT and how they could implement different strategies/ concepts at their grade level to help guide students to the test taken in 3rd - 5th grades
 * 2nd grade expressed the need for student workbooks (they will not be free after this year)
 * AMTSI School Wide????? When adopting textbooks in the near future, will our school be total AMSTI and supplement with textbook/ workbook practice? Discuss with faculty.
 * CLASSWORKS - concerns are: __**very overwhelming to students, not user friendly, directions are very vague/ not explicit enough for young users, doesn't always align with our COS,**__
 * Each grade level should give a weekly/ cummulative grade/ assessment on skills taught. Reteaching opportunites should come from this.
 * Next meeting scheduled for March 7, 2012

__9/29/11__ Attending were the FEB Math Team (see above), Mrs. Calvert, Dr. Horton, and Laura Clemons (Math AMSTI Specialist) Laura Clemons gave a brief overview of the 2010 Math COS as well as new ARMT PLUS requirements. Some as as follows:
 * any information in __yellow is new__/ __red is moved from your grade to another__/ __BOLD BLACK__ you do not need anymore after 2014
 * the ARMT test will be given from the 2003 COS until the year 2015
 * teachers need to correlate items in both COS to make sure the students are being taught all the objectives so none will "slip thru the cracks"
 * Nov. 1 - new ARMT item specs will be on the State Department's Website
 * the new ARMT PLUS test will be more rigorous (as it is focusing more on college and career material... not just computation, but the process also)
 * Pearson Success Net has a test builder math
 * Dr. Horton and Mrs. Calvert discussed ARMT PLUS training

She (Laura Clemons) will be attending our faculty meeting on Oct. 19th to brief the entire faculty on the new 2010 COS and ARMT PLUS test.

__9/13/11__ The 2011-2012 Math Team had its first meeting of the year on Tuesday, Sept. 13th. Mrs. Calvert, along with the seven team members, were present. We discussed the following:
 * New COS - The team thought it would be beneficial for all teachers to have one another's grade level's COS so we can see the progression and terminology as students go from one grade to the next. Our AMSTI Math Specialists will be emailing these documents to TIna Towers and she will distribute/ forward them to the rest of the faculty.
 * Negative Proficiency (on the Math portion of the 2010 - 2011 ARMT Test) for our Special Education population
 * Timed Tests (in our CIP Plan)
 * Scheduling conflicts with gifted and other subgroups
 * CLASSWORKS as a tool not a substitute for teacher led lessons
 * Visitng other schools (that perform higher than our 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades on the ARMT) that are are similar to F. E. Burleson demographically - we would like to discuss with their teachers (K - 5, including resouce teachers) how they structure their math block.... including what materials are used, assessments that are given, inlcusion, departmentalization, calualtors on ARMT, etc.

Our Next Steps include:
 * Develop a list of questions to ask and discuss with the schools we will be visiting as a team
 * Meet Sept, 29th at 2:00 to decided which schools would be beneficial for us to visit
 * Discuss with each grade level how to meld AMSTI hands-on activities with paper and pencil tasks

The following were discussed in our Math Team meeting on Jan. 3, 2011:


 * Next year, teachers want to take their own math classes to the computer lab.
 * Math Mondays will continue to focus on ARMT practice.
 * For ARMT preparation, we will continue using Read It, Draw It, Solve It
 * We will continue to use CLEAR: computate, label, explain, and recheck

The following is a list of basic math concepts that hopefully each child will be proficient in before going to the next grade:

By the end of Kindergarten--recognize numbers 1-20 and number words 1-10; correctly compare sets of more and less; match numbers to sets

By the end of 1st grade--add single digit numbers up to sums of 10; subtract single digit numbers with differences of 10

By the end of 2nd grade--double digit addition and subtraction with and without regrouping; understand the concept of multiplication(repeated addition)

By the end of 3rd grade--subtraction across zeros up to 1,000; know multiplication facts 0-9; dividing 2-digit dividends by 1-digit divisor with remainder

By the end of the 4th grade--know muliplication facts through 12; division with zeros in the quotient

By the end of the 5th grade--be proficient in multi-step problems involving all operations

Math Team Members:

K-Beth Balch 1-Amy Holt/Kim Peck 2-Carol Powell/Mary McClanahan 3-Yulanda Hampton 4-Leah Turner 5-Suzanne Mozley/Michelle Kelso Title-Ginny Carden Resource-Tara Hamlett

April 20, 2011:

The Math Team met to discuss the end of the year math assessments. It was decided that the end of the year grade level math assessments, Classworks benchmark, and VMath Progress Assessment and final assessment be done by May 10th. This will give the teachers enough time to grade the assessments and have the data ready for the May data meetings.