Parent Resources
These are great videos explaining to parents why we teach math the way we do now.
These videos offer great support for parents to help them understand and support their students with homework and common core skills.
This school district has offered fantastic resources to parents for each grade level.
National Resources
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Old Standards v. Common Core: A Side-by-Side Comparison of Math Expectations
"Understanding how the new standards will improve students’ math skills..."
View a comparison of math problems based on previous sets of standards to math problems based on the CCSSM to understand the greater focus by teachers and deeper knowledge by students called for in the new standards.
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Council of Great City Schools Parent Roadmaps to the Common Core Standards – Mathematics
The Council of the Great City Schools' parent roadmaps in mathematics provide guidance to parents and guardians about what their children will be learning and how they can support that learning from kindergarten through high school. These parent roadmaps for each grade level also provide three-year snapshots showing how selected standards progress from year to year so that students will be college and career ready upon their graduation from high school.
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Khan Academy Common Core Math
Here you will find interactive math problems aligned to every CCSSM. Students can work at their own pace through grade-level “missions” and track their progress through personalized dashboards. All problems are accompanied by step-by-step solutions specific to each problem. Successful completion of missions is charted on a progress report on the student’s dashboard while “coaches”—whether teachers, tutors, or parents/guardians—can see a student’s progress with access through a class code or coach ID. Learn more about these resources from Khan Academy founder, Sal Kahn, in this EdSurge article .
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Homework Help Desk
Be A Learning Hero has partnered with other organizations to create the Homework Help Desk. With the CCSS, children are learning new concepts and strategies in the classroom. That means parents are learning them, too. The goal of the Homework Help Desk is to equip parents with the knowledge and support they need to help their children with homework assignments.
* For more information about math education today, please view the NCTM Family's Guide (PDF) and visit the CMC Informative Articles Web page.
These links were taken from the following website: http://www.cde.ca.gov/re/cc/mathinfoparents.asp