Practice Makes Proficient: resources for CCSS‏ Math

To meet the needs of the 93% of teachers who want more CCSS math practice questions, I've found these resources to be helpful. Free resources that are well-aligned with CCSS math include TenMarks and Khan Academy. My second-level choice for free math questions are Triand and Study Island but be sure to select CC when adding questions to create an assignment. Also, I use questions from the paid service SCORE21. After gathering my questions, I add them to a paid service at EADMS to give my students an interactive way to be assessed which is similar to the math practice test format of PARCC and Smarter Balance by including these question types: multiple selected response, constructed response (CR), drawing (like graphing the line for the constant of proportionality on a coordinate plane), inline dropdown choices, highlightable text, autoscore CR, equation numeric response (like typing fractions and other math symbols), 2 part EBSR, drag and drop hot spot (like placing numbers on a number line or points on a coordinate plane), table matching, and ordering. EADMS also provides a great method of analysis of students grouped by class, teacher (for administrators), lower 25% and others by standard over time. Additionally, I assess students regularly on STAR Math through a paid service at Renaissance Learning which provides detailed reports of student progress and trends by standard, grade equivalent, and scale score. MobyMax provides Tier II support and documentation for students lacking preskills (like math-fact fluency) since it's research-based, but the questions are not yet aligned by grade-level with CCSS.

Our principal has provided us these resources so students will be able to practice like they will perform so they will perform like they practice. Students have been coasting through for far too long; now they and their parents can monitor their progress and make changes before the year and state tests are over and before their cancerous lack of motivation has metastasized among their classmates. One difference this year is that students who improve from low minimal to high minimal and those who progress from low basic to high basic also make a difference in our school's and district's rankings. So even if students get discouraged that they are not proficient yet, every baby-step of progress matters!