Mathematics Education Group

These partners included organizations such as the Strategic Education Research Partnership (SERP), through which we partnered with CCSS author Phil Daro and Bay Area Mathematics Project (BAMP) Director Harold Asturias; we also partnered with the Silicon Valley Mathematics Initiative (SVMI), and its Executive Director David Foster. We collaborated c... losely with SFUSD departments such as Multilingual Pathways and the Office of Achievement and Assessment. Based on this collaboration, the SFUSD Math Department determined that a math curriculum that put student discourse in the forefront needed to include a commitment to meaningful group work involving rich math tasks. This unit design guides all the SFUSD Math Core curriculum from kindergarten through high school algebra. Over the course of 2 years, 120 teacher gathers regularly to study the standards and develop units of study based on existing materials and new ones created around the country. 180 additional teachers piloted these units and gave feedback. The development of the SFUSD Math Core Curriculum was conceived with a cycle of improvement based on teacher feedback built in. After 6 years of iterative improvement, we released the curriculum under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) so that others could benefit from it and improve upon it. We realized then as we do now that many math colleagues in CA and across the country have not had sufficient resources to engage in such a large project; much of our early work was funded by the S.D. Bechtel Jr. Foundation and by local San Francisco taxpayers through the Public Education Enrichment Fund (PEEF). Q - What are some of the key features of the SFUSD Math Curriculum? The curriculum is task based. Most of the Elementary Curriculum, Grades K-5, is available to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY) that permits anyone to copy, revise, remix, and distribute the work, as long as SFUSD is credited for the original creation. The curriculum goes hand-in-hand with our signature ...Read More