SD Counts Cohort Meeting

November 239:00-2:00

Problem-Solving Activity

• To encourage people to attend a special concert, radio station MATH decides to give out 1242 free tickets. The station decides to distribute tickets in the following manner. Each day the station will give away half of the tickets in its possession. How many days will it take before MATH has only one ticket to give? – Estimate when you think all but one ticket will be given

out. – Can you think of any ways to organize the data in order to

help you think about the problem? – Do you see a pattern?

NCTM

NCTM Process Standards

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• Student Confidence and Student Involvement

ED Performance• Performance Series is commonly referred to in South Dakota as DACS (Dakota

Assessment of Content Standards) and is available to all schools in South Dakota at no charge. It is an online, computer diagnostic exam that helps teachers quickly pinpoint the proficiency level of students. The subject areas that can be assessed in Performance Series are math and reading (grades 2-10) and science and language arts (grades 2-8). The test items within a Performance Series test are aligned to the South Dakota content standards.

The online test in Performance Series automatically adjusts to each student’s ability level, generating more difficult questions if the student is answering correctly and easier ones if the student is answering incorrectly. Students do not spend unnecessary time on questions that are too difficult—they spend more time learning! The result from a PS test is a ‘scaled score’. The scaled score can be used to measure academic growth and can be measured across time. Teachers are able to develop individualized learning plans for students based on their particular needs.

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http://doe.sd.gov/oats/dacs.asp

Work Time

• Next Meeting December 15– 8:30-3:30

Read Chapter 5 for our December meeting