Common Core State Standards Affect The Role Of Change In Schools
Change is necessary for anyone or anything to progress and survive. Sometimes change is seamless or unknown and other times it is met with protests, but nonetheless it still occurs. This goes especially for teaching and learning in schools. Teaching styles must constantly change with the times because students and how to get through to them change quickly. The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) is the new standard for driving the creation of curriculum. “Moving from the previous state standards to the CCSS requires fundamental shifts in the way teachers teach, the way students learn and are assessed, and the way leaders lead.” (Fratz, 2013)
There are eight mandated principals in mathematics that must be taught under the new standards. They
are:
• Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
• Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
• Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
• Model with mathematics.
• Use appropriate tools strategically.
• Attend to precision.
• Look for and make use of structure.
• Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning. (Fratz, 2013)
There are eight mandated principals in mathematics that must be taught under the new standards. They
are:
• Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
• Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
• Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
• Model with mathematics.
• Use appropriate tools strategically.
• Attend to precision.
• Look for and make use of structure.
• Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning. (Fratz, 2013)