3rd Grade Math
3rd Grade Mathematics
How will we improve math growth and achievement?
Strategies for Improvement
- Implementation of research-based instructional materials, strategies and interventions aligned to essential standards at each grade level
- Continued implementation of K-12 Language Arts Curriculum / Math
- Year 3 - K-5 / Year 1 - K-5
- Year 2 - 6-12 / Year 1 - 6-12
- K-12 Professional Learning Communities
- use of data to drive success for students
- grade-level common assessments; district-wide common assessments
- continue to improve at effectively analyzing student data and adjust/adapt to impact student learning and growth
- Language Development
What you can do at home
Play card games, and other strategy-based games, such as learn to play chess, checkers, or other board games.
If you enjoy sports, look at things such as player statistics, or talk about the number of innings or downs or yards.
Play counting games (ones, tens, hundreds).
Play with building blocks.
TERMS
Math skills growth: This data point reflects how much students are showing flat, modest, typical or aggressive growth in their math skills.
Math proficiency: Achievement refers to scores on a test, looking at a student's proficiency at their grade level. Growth shows how much a student is learning in the math standards. Central School District believes that students must grow in their learning to achieve higher test results.
Cohort: "Cohort" describes a group of students. For example, if we are looking at the K-1 cohort, we are looking at our current first-grade students (this year) compared to those same students in kindergarten (last year). Much of the state data that is released focuses on grade-specific results. We look at the journey of our students through data year-over-year, or by their cohort.
UNIVERSAL SCREENER VS. STATE TESTS
Both are useful data points.
Central School District staff use the Universal Screener tools to test students three times a year -- fall, winter, and spring -- to determine what help they need to get or stay on track. One major benefit of these assessments is that educators can use the data immediately to help students through interventions.
The state of Oregon uses the Smarter Balanced Assessments each spring to determine how students meet certain standards. The results of this test are not released until the following fall. Because the results are released after students have moved to the next grade, the data is not as immediately useful. Regardless, it remains an important data point.
EVALUACION UNIVERSAL VS. PRUEBAS ESTATALES
Ambos son puntos de datos útiles.
El personal del Distrito Escolar Central utiliza las herramientas de la evaluación universal para evaluar a los estudiantes tres veces al año (otoño, invierno y primavera) para determinar qué ayuda necesitan para lograr o mantener el rumbo. Un beneficio importante de estas evaluaciones es que los educadores pueden utilizar los datos inmediatamente para ayudar a los estudiantes a través de las intervenciones.
El estado de Oregon utilizó las Evaluaciones Smarter Balanced cada primavera para determinar cómo los estudiantes cumplen con ciertos estándares. Los resultados de esta prueba no se publicarán hasta el otoño siguiente. Debido a que los resultados se publican después de que los estudiantes han pasado al siguiente grado, los datos no son tan útiles de inmediato. De todos modos, sigue siendo un dato importante.
Goals in Math
- We will see an annual growth of 3 percentage points or more in the mathematics proficiency for all 3rd grade students, as assessed by the annual Oregon state tests.
- By 3rd grade, 60 percent or more of all students will have achieved the math skills expected of their grade level, as assessed by the district's Universal Screener K-3 cohort growth data.