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Math Literacy in Indiana Schools

CTL is working with mathematics teachers in six schools of the Southern Indiana Deanery to focus instruction on multiple representations, communication, and student interactions that embed the new Common Core Standards of Mathematical Practice. 

This year-long professional development initiative is based on CTL's Mathematics Literacy Model, which is aligned with the Common Core State Standards, based in part on more than a decade of work in content literacy, and designed to provide opportunities for middle and high school students to develop deeper mathematical understanding through a communication-centered classroom.

With CTL's guidance, the Southern Indiana Deanery teachers are creating vocabulary development routines that allow students to communicate eficiently and effectively, developing activities that routinely have students reasoning absractly and quantitatively, teaching students to construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others, employing instructional approaches that embed flexibility in problem solving to promote student perseverence, and doing lesson analysis that makes it possible to formatively assess and respond to student understanding, and to assess the inclusion of the Standards for Mathematical Practice in their teaching.

For more information contact:
Roland O'Daniel
502.895.9500 x323