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Tag Archives: Common Core State Standards

Depth of Knowledge Matrix – 5th Grade

PedagogyBy Robert KaplinskyDecember 17, 201915 Comments

[Looking for other grade levels? The button below allows you to download all of them or you can look here.]   If you’ve been looking for a way to challenge your students that was simultaneously accessible for all students but still challenged your high flyers, then you’ll love the problems on my Open Middle Depth…

Depth of Knowledge Matrix – 4th Grade

PedagogyBy Robert KaplinskyDecember 10, 20192 Comments

[Looking for other grade levels? The button below allows you to download all of them or you can look here.]   If you’ve been looking for a way to challenge your students that was simultaneously accessible for all students but still challenged your high flyers, then you’ll love the problems on my Open Middle Depth…

Depth of Knowledge Matrix – 3rd Grade

PedagogyBy Robert KaplinskyDecember 3, 20195 Comments

[Looking for other grade levels? The button below allows you to download all of them or you can look here.]   If you’ve been looking for a way to challenge your students that was simultaneously accessible for all students but still challenged your high flyers, then you’ll love the problems on my Open Middle Depth…

Depth of Knowledge Matrix – Algebra 2

PedagogyBy Robert KaplinskyNovember 26, 20195 Comments

[Looking for other grade levels? The button below allows you to download all of them or you can look here.]   If you’ve been looking for a way to challenge your students that was simultaneously accessible for all students but still challenged your high flyers, then you’ll love the problems on my Open Middle Depth…

Depth of Knowledge Matrix – Geometry

PedagogyBy Robert KaplinskyNovember 19, 2019Leave a comment

[Looking for other grade levels? The button below allows you to download all of them or you can look here.]   If you’ve been looking for a way to challenge your students that was simultaneously accessible for all students but still challenged your high flyers, then you’ll love the problems on my Open Middle Depth…

Depth of Knowledge Matrix – Algebra 1

PedagogyBy Robert KaplinskyNovember 12, 2019Leave a comment

[Looking for other grade levels? The button below allows you to download all of them or you can look here.]   If you’ve been looking for a way to challenge your students that was simultaneously accessible for all students but still challenged your high flyers, then you’ll love the problems on my Open Middle Depth…

Depth of Knowledge Matrix – 8th Grade

PedagogyBy Robert KaplinskyOctober 29, 20192 Comments

[Looking for other grade levels? The button below allows you to download all of them or you can look here.]   If you’ve been looking for a way to challenge your students that was simultaneously accessible for all students but still challenged your high flyers, then you’ll love the problems on my Open Middle Depth…

Depth of Knowledge Matrix – 7th Grade

PedagogyBy Robert KaplinskyOctober 22, 20196 Comments

[Looking for other grade levels? The button below allows you to download all of them or you can look here.]   If you’ve been looking for a way to challenge your students that was simultaneously accessible for all students but still challenged your high flyers, then you’ll love the problems on my Open Middle Depth…

Depth of Knowledge Matrix – 6th Grade

PedagogyBy Robert KaplinskyOctober 15, 20192 Comments

[Looking for other grade levels? The button below allows you to download all of them or you can look here.]   If you’ve been looking for a way to challenge your students that was simultaneously accessible for all students but still challenged your high flyers, then you’ll love the problems on my Open Middle Depth…

Do We Really Know Our Content Standards?

Educational PolicyBy Robert KaplinskyApril 9, 201923 Comments

There’s a scene from The Matrix which I absolutely love as a metaphor for the choices we make and the ignorance we can choose to turn on or off as it suits us. Watch the scene or read the dialogue below. Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) explains to Neo (Keanu Reeves) that the Matrix is an illusory…

How Are We Supposed To Teach All Of This?!

Educational PolicyBy Robert KaplinskyMarch 5, 201912 Comments

I frequently hear teachers say “How are we supposed to teach all of this in one school year?” or “What are we supposed to cut to make time for what you’re showing us?”  These are valid concerns as >82% of math educators said that they don’t have enough time to teach one year of standards…

Making The CCSS Math Practices Readable: MP 8

PedagogyBy Robert KaplinskyNovember 20, 20183 Comments

This is the eighth of an eight blog post series where I’ll attempt to make a version of each of the Common Core State Standards’ Math Practices that educators, parents, and students can all understand. Simply put, the Math Practices are really tough to make sense of, which means that few educators have read them…

Making The CCSS Math Practices Readable: MP 7

PedagogyBy Robert KaplinskyNovember 13, 20185 Comments

This is the seventh of an eight blog post series where I’ll attempt to make a version of each of the Common Core State Standards’ Math Practices that educators, parents, and students can all understand. Simply put, the Math Practices are really tough to make sense of, which means that few educators have read them…

Making The CCSS Math Practices Readable: MP 6

PedagogyBy Robert KaplinskyNovember 6, 20184 Comments

This is the sixth of an eight blog post series where I’ll attempt to make a version of each of the Common Core State Standards’ Math Practices that educators, parents, and students can all understand. Simply put, the Math Practices are really tough to make sense of, which means that few educators have read them…

Making The CCSS Math Practices Readable: MP 5

PedagogyBy Robert KaplinskyOctober 30, 20182 Comments

This is the fifth of an eight blog post series where I’ll attempt to make a version of each of the Common Core State Standards’ Math Practices that educators, parents, and students can all understand. Simply put, the Math Practices are really tough to make sense of, which means that few educators have read them…

Making The CCSS Math Practices Readable: MP 4

PedagogyBy Robert KaplinskyOctober 23, 20182 Comments

This is the fourth of an eight blog post series where I’ll attempt to make a version of each of the Common Core State Standards’ Math Practices that educators, parents, and students can all understand. Simply put, the Math Practices are really tough to make sense of, which means that few educators have read them…

Making The CCSS Math Practices Readable: MP 3

PedagogyBy Robert KaplinskyOctober 16, 20182 Comments

This is the third of an eight blog post series where I’ll attempt to make a version of each of the Common Core State Standards’ Math Practices that educators, parents, and students can all understand. Simply put, the Math Practices are really tough to make sense of, which means that few educators have read them…

Making The CCSS Math Practices Readable: MP 2

PedagogyBy Robert KaplinskyOctober 9, 20183 Comments

This is the second of an eight blog post series where I’ll attempt to make a version of each of the Common Core State Standards’ Math Practices that educators, parents, and students can all understand. Simply put, the Math Practices are really tough to make sense of, which means that few educators have read them…

Making The CCSS Math Practices Readable: MP 1

PedagogyBy Robert KaplinskyOctober 2, 201816 Comments

This is the first of an eight blog post series where I’ll attempt to make a version of each of the Common Core State Standards’ Math Practices that educators, parents, and students can all understand. Simply put, the Math Practices are really tough to make sense of, which means that few educators have read them…

Do You Have Enough Time To Teach All Your Standards In One Year?

Educational PolicyBy Robert KaplinskyAugust 29, 201753 Comments

When working with teachers, I frequently tell them that there are no teachers who feel like they have enough time to teach all of their grade level Common Core math standards. I state it like it is fact, but then one day I realized that I was just making a big assumption. So, I created…

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