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Implementing Expressions and Equations (6-8)

Continue your journey into Expressions and Equations by understanding how to implement the domain effectively in your classroom. This course is designed to follow Getting Started with Expressions and Equations course.


About This Course

This course builds on Getting Started with Expressions and Equations and focuses on tasks and strategies for implementing this domain in the classroom. You will have an opportunity to revisit the mathematics tasks you worked on in the previous course and explore strategies for engaging students in the Expressions and Equations domain. You will hear from teachers, view video of classroom lessons, read about how current research in mathematics education, and reflect on how that research can help you implement the Expressions and Equations domain effectively.

What You'll Learn:

  • How the common core shift of rigor is illustrated in the Expressions and Equations domain
  • How the Standards for Mathematical Practice support students in deepening their understanding of the mathematical content
  • How the clusters and standards differ from more traditional standards that address similar content and why it is important to think about mathematical content at the cluster level, rather than at the level of individual standards
  • How existing curricular materials can sometimes be modified to become rich, common core-aligned tasks.

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WAYS TO TAKE THIS COURSE

Simply Audit this Course

Can't commit to all of the lectures, assignments, and tests? Audit this course and have complete access to all of the course material, tests, people, portfolios, and the online discussion forum. You decide what and how much you want to do.

Try for a Certificate

Looking to test your mettle? Participate in all of the course's activities (we use the honor code around here) and if your work meets the 85% requirements, you'll receive a personalized certificate to showcase your achievement. You can also apply for course credit (if desired).


Course Staff

Angela Knotts


Angela Knotts works in both math education research and professional development at WestEd. Before coming to WestEd, she taught middle school and high school math for eight years, mentored and supervised pre-service teachers at USF, NDNU, and Stanford University, and designed and led professional development experiences for pre-service and in-service teachers.

Katie Salguero


Katie Salguero provides professional development in mathematics and works on math education and evaluation research. She has worked on several large-scale federally funded projects such as Aim for Algebra, Making Middle School Mathematics Accessible to All Students, Learning and Teaching Linear Functions, and CPB-PBS Ready to Learn. Before joining WestEd, she taught middle and high school mathematics.

Cathy Carroll


Cathy Carroll specializes in mathematics education and mathematics teacher leadership. She is co-author of Learning to Lead Mathematics Professional Development and Making Mathematics Accessible to English Learners: A Guidebook for Teachers. Cathy served as Director of the Mathematics Renaissance Leadership Alliance, an initiative designed to develop teacher leadership for quality mathematics programs. She also has nearly twenty years of experience teaching middle school mathematics.

This course is designed to follow Getting Started with Expressions and Equations, where you had an opportunity to take a close look at the content standards for this domain.

Additionally, the course builds on the two basic introductory courses: Introduction to the Standards for Mathematical Practice (Grades 6–8) and Introduction to the Standards for Mathematical Content (Grades 6–8). If you have not yet completed those courses, you are strongly encouraged to do so before beginning this course.

For more information and to register for Getting Started with Expressions and Equations, click here.

For more information and to register for Introduction to the Standards for Mathematical Practice (Grades 6–8), click here.

For more information and to register for Introduction to the Standards for Mathematical Content (Grades 6–8), click here.
Angela Knotts, Katie Salguero, Cathy Carroll
Course Code: MA201M
Course Release: Aug 18, 2014
Estimated Effort: 15 Hours

Suggested Prerequisites:
This course is designed to follow Getting Started with Expressions and Equations, where you had an opportunity to take a close look at the content standards for this domain.

Additionally, the course builds on the two basic introductory courses: Introduction to the Standards for Mathematical Practice (Grades 6–8) and Introduction to the Standards for Mathematical Content (Grades 6–8). If you have not yet completed those courses, you are strongly encouraged to do so before beginning this course.

For more information and to register for Getting Started with Expressions and Equations, click here.

For more information and to register for Introduction to the Standards for Mathematical Practice (Grades 6–8), click here.

For more information and to register for Introduction to the Standards for Mathematical Content (Grades 6–8), click here.

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