BreakOut Session: Mathematics and Numeracy Mike Czukar Craig Featherstone Chris Allen What Are We...

BreakOut Session:

Mathematics and Numeracy

Mike CzukarCraig Featherstone

Chris Allen

What Are We Hearing?How Can We Help?

Math Session 01/29/20143

Session Goals

1. To help prepare for math conversations based on an awareness of market issues.

2. To position Pearson math solutions (resources and services) against these market issues and customer needs.

3. To identify sales plans around mathematics in Spring 2014.


Equipped for Conversations:

Discover and Qualify

What are we

Hearing?


Media Attention

Frontier Centre for Public Policy (www.fcpp.org)• Math Instruction That Makes Sense by Michael Zwaagstra (high

school social studies teacher in Manitoba) – released September 2011

Western Initiative for Strengthening Education in Math (WISE in Math) (www.wisemath.org)

• Sparked in September 2011 by Dr. Anna Stokke, Associate Professor of Mathematics, University of Winnipeg and Dr. Robert Craigen, Professor of Mathematics, University of Manitoba

JUMP Math (www.jumpmath.org)• Dr. John Mighton, founder of JUMP Math and Adjunct Professor of

Mathematics, University of Toronto

What Are The Critics Saying?

• Math teacher training needs improvement (K-8)

• Math curriculum needs improvement o Balanced approach between understanding and skillso Algorithms for arithmetico Basic math skills and automaticity of number facts

• Students are not prepared for post-secondary mathematics

• We’re falling behind other countries in mathematics


PISA Results

What Are They Referring To?


What is PISA (PISADay.org)• Programme for International Student Assessment

• International assessment of 15 year old students

• Covers math, literacy and science

• Conducted every three years: last conducted in April-May 2012 and results were reported in December 2013

• Math was the major focus on the 2012 assessment

• Total of 65 countries participated including all 34 OECD members (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development www.oecd.org)

• Typically between 5,000 and 10,000 students from at least 150 schools are tested in each county; total of 470,000 students

• Canada tested 21,000 students across 900 schools and all 10 provinces in 2012


How Canada Performed

• Canadian students achieved a mean score of 518, which is 24 points above the OECD average: only Korea, Japan and Switzerland outperformed Canada among OECD countries.

• Among all 65 participating countries, nine performed better than Canada.

• However the gap between the higher performing countries and Canada has widened.

• Canadian students fared poorest on the category of shape and space


Top Performers

• Shanghai-China 613

• Singapore 573

• Hong Kong-China 561

• Chinese Taipei 560

• Korea 554

• Macao-China 538

• Japan 536

• Liechtenstein 535

• Switzerland 531


• Shanghai-China’s lead over the next highest performer (Singapore) represents the equivalent of a full school year

• Some believe their results reflect rote learning and immense drilling for tests – this is not the case.

• Over 30% of students achieved level 5 or 6 which means they can do tasks where they extrapolate what they know and apply knowledge in novel situations;

• By comparison only 16% of Canadian students achieved these levels.

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Canada 532 527 527 518

Newfoundland & Labrador

517 507 503 490

Prince Edward Island 500 501 487 479

Nova Scotia 515 506 512 497

New Brunswick 512 506 504 502

Quebec 537 540 543 536

Ontario 530 526 526 514

Manitoba 528 521 501 492

Saskatchewan 516 507 506 506

Alberta 549 530 529 517

British Columbia 538 523 523 522


What Are the Provinces Doing?

Western Canada

•Manitoba – revised K-8 math curriculum in August 2013 with a strong emphasis on basic math skills; expecting an RFP for resources; provincial authorization of JUMP Math; heavy emphasis on teacher training

•Saskatchewan – focus on teacher training and parent education; no changes to curriculum

•Alberta – currently going through curriculum reform and new math curriculum expected in 2016

•British Columbia – currently going through curriculum revision (all subjects) with math expecting the least change. Focus on concepts and processes rather than factual content. New financial literacy.



Ontario

•In early stages of consulting experts on math

•Early stages on curriculum revision but no major changes are expected

•$4 million for teacher math training announced early January 2014

•Province will move to two-year program in 2015 for teacher pre-service training

•Continued focus on EQAO testing



Quebec

•Canadian leader in math

•Heavier teacher training (pre-service) – Quebec has a four-year math teacher course

•Grade school teachers must take as many as 225 hours of university courses in math education whereas it can be as low as 39 hours in other Canadian jurisdictions

•Quebec curriculum includes basic math facts (children must know their multiplication and division tables) and discovery-based learning



Atlantic Canada

•Newfoundland and Labrador – first Atlantic province to adopt WNCP curriculum (2007)

•New Brunswick –adopted WNCP curriculum in 2007

•PEI – adopted WNCP in 2007 and will look at focusing on intervention in the early years

•Nova Scotia – in the process of adopting the WNCP curriculum; just phased in Grades K-3 and 10 in 2013; 4-6 and 11 in 2014; and finally 7-9 and 12 in 2015


Other Considerations

United States:

•45 of 50 states are implementing the Common Core State Standards

•We may see a spillover effect of resources coming in from the US because there is a greater congruence with Canada’s pedagogical approach.




Discover and Qualify

Hearing the Research:

Resolving the Math Wars


Recapping: The Truth about PISA

1. Canadian students continue to perform well in mathematics in a global context.

2. Only Korea, Japan and Switzerland outperformed Canada among OECD countries.

3. Among all 65 participating countries (including city-states), nine performed statistically better than Canada.

Shanghai-China

Singapore

Hong Kong-China

Chinese Taipei

Korea

Maceo-China

Japan

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Liechtenstein

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3. Among all 65 participating countries (including city-states), nine performed better than Canada.

4. Among all 65 participating countries (including city-states), eleven performed statistically as well as Canada.

Netherlands

British Columbia

Estonia

Finland

Canada

Poland

Alberta

Belgium

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Germany

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3. Among all 65 participating countries (including city-states), nine performed better than Canada.

4. Among all 65 participating countries (including city-states), eleven performed statistically as well as Canada.

5. PISA is not a “return to basics” test; it focuses on critical thinking & application.


Researchers agree….

1. Computational Fluency and Conceptual Understanding are both necessary.


Strategic Competence

APPLYING

Productive Disposition

ENGAGINGProcedural Fluency

COMPUTING

Conceptual Understanding

UNDERSTANDING

Adaptive Reasoning

REASONING


Adding It Up (2001)National Research Council




2. Engagement, persistence and productive habits of mind are essential for success.

3. Leading math countries excel in application and problem solving – as well as basic facts.


Name that Grade


Shanghai

Gr. 1


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CanadaGrade 1




2. Engagement, persistence and productive habits of mind are essential for success.

3. Leading math countries excel in application and problem solving – as well as basic facts.

4. Improving teaching – especially a teacher’s Pedagogical Content Knowledge – is the key to improving math education.



Qualify, Present and Close

How canwe Help?

Pearson 2014 Solutions:

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Dr. Cathy Fosnot – “New Perspectives on Learning Math” (2-day Institutes)o Early Number Sense, Addition and Subtraction (K-3)o Multiplication and Division (3-6)o Fractions (3-8)o Place Value and Decimals (3-6)o Early Algebra (6-8)o Conferring with Young Mathematicianso Dynamic versus Static Assessmento Intervention Models


Professional Learning Sessions

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Professional Learning Sessions

David McKillop – Custom Sessionso Mental Math and Estimationo Problem Solving

Dr. Cathy Marks-Krpano Creating a Culture of Math (based on Math

Expressions)

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Teacher Professional Resources

Heinemann Professional List o separate list available

Math Expressions (Cathy Marks Krpan)o communication in math

Teaching Student Centered Mathematics (John Van de Walle)o new edition

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Teacher Professional Resources

NEW: What to Look For (Dr. Alex Lawson)o Coming May 2014 o Focus on early

numeracy grades K-2

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Assessment for Learning Resources

Numeracy Nets:o Diagnosing student misconceptionso New contract extension with DoE Western

Australia until 2023o Considering K-2 for Ontarioo Researching digitization

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Assessment for Learning Resources

NEW: Insights into EQAO Mathematics 6o Trustworthy and Reliable Datao Feedback & Support that Builds Student Learningo Customizable for Ongoing and Targeted Use

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