what about algebra 1. the course called algebra. very often when we are thinking about the common core, the question is posed, what about algebra? the important thing i want to say is when california moved algebra in the eighth grade it was our best thinking and our vehicle moved towards equity. we wanted to have more students to have access. that was the well-intentioned desire that we believe in equity but now that we have data, we know that we are a district that believes in continuous cycles of improvement. now that we have data about how students are doing in algebra one, our 8th graders, how they are doing in algebra 1. the question is is this the best for our students. so we have to answer this question, how can we provide for the course and rigor for all of our students. >> since we've moved to 8th grade algebra, the primary courses is algebra 1 in 8 -grade and geometry in 9th grade. this is a move to address the algebra 1 being a gatekeeper and many students not getting the at some point -- opportunity to pass through that

we are taking algebra in the 8th grade and algebra 2 in the 10th grade and are they taking present e calculus in the 11th grade? >> most, yes they are. >> so we've kind of added an extra course anyway? in other words taking algebra in the 8th grade doesn't get you to calculus before 12-grade. >> not necessarily unless they take that compressed course where you take algebra 2 and precalculus combined. >> then they would be taking that in the 10th grade in the continuum i just described theoretically that's a lot of high achieving kids are taking now. okay, thank you. >> any other comments? i have a few comments on this. okay. first, so i think from my own personal experience i want to share with everything is my own experience is i took algebra twice. i understand it's very common or else people are trying to make me feel better. i went from an arithmetic class then to algebra. so i'm not beating myself because after the second year i kind of got it. but i can see how to jump didn't give me any foundation. but i am 56. let me speed it up a little bit. i also have three children in the

i teach algebra 2. i would like to comment, i'm more on commenting on the user approach on the common core and i'm volunteering to do them and i was very reticent and scared to take it on and had a lot of feels about how all this change and i started to get into it and i'm telling you, it is really rich. it has a lot of access points. what i hear a lot of fear from a parent that if tracking goes away that my accelerated and advanced kid is not going to wind up getting the kind of stuff they have gotten before. i have to tell you, what i saw in the unit that i taught at the high school level, it was just full of incredible rigor. it has a lot of access points. you can have kids that are super advanced doing things and allows for differentiation. i myself found it very difficult to do the whole unit. what i did was break it into all these different levels for kids. i this i that that is something to address or to say to the fears that we are not going to be able to get the kids on an an accelerated pace.

is that the algebra? we can do that? look at the zeroes, honey. now, anyone have a calculator? how about without a calculator, we can do, huh? one goes in the 40,000 how many times? 40,000. so this car is gonna go 40,000 meters. and it turns out, if we express force in newtons distance in meters and energy in joules, the units will match. so we have no conversions to make. so this turns out to be 40,000 meters. we don't say 40,000 meters, we say 40 kilometers. so it turns out to be 40 kilometers. you know what this means, gang? in a car that is 100% efficient, you can't have that. make believe you can. 100% efficient, that means all the energy of the gasoline goes in the moving the car. nothing goes into the heat, nothing goes into the sound, nothing goes into the friction, huh? all into the car, there's a upper limit. if you have to push with 1,000 newtons, which is--was it reasonable-- then the greatest distance you can possibly get, nature's ultimate, is 40 kilometers. so this car will give you 40 kilometers per liter. and there's only one way you can get more. how's that? w

especially mathematics and algebra functions and geometry now we are getting reported on concepts, procedures, communicating and modeling and data analysis and really a broad change, not only in the assessment themselves but the way they are reporting and parents and schools can think about the information. >> in the format that item types that we mentioned to you and as we go through format, we'll be showing you some examples of feedback that we have received from schools, from students, from teachers and from administrators as to what they are feeling as they are taking the test. right now even the picture up there is the students at middle school taking a smarter balance practice test. so the first kind of format is the selected response. i want you to note that's different from multiple choice. in multiple choice there used to be the method of elimination so you find the right answer. if i were to make the same question, a multiple choice question, it would be which one of the statements is equivalent to 236 as opposed to 24 y. it is dominating if it's equivalent to 36 x plus 24 y and mar

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he will quit my ninth grade algebra teacher and he was weird. so i want to know how did you do it. you get on tv? well, i have photographs here. and someone else said i bumped into you at your sons basketball game and you were so nice. i'm not going to waste my time. ♪ double mocha. lou: good evening, everyone. russian president vladimir putin putting his military on high alert, ordering up to 150,000 russian troops stationed along the ukrainian border into a russia calls battle ready drills. consisting of 41 warships, two submarines, 10 guided missile ships. several anti-submarine warfare votes. the defense minister claimed the movement of those russ

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the teacher in arizona with miss boxey communicating more effectively to have these students in algebraic segment. i hope you'll come back. >> what we can do is set up an e-mail and they can mail me and i'll respond to them. >> let's do this right now, if you wouldn't mind, go to our green room, we'll set up on facebook a facebook question right now, questions about common core. would you stick around for an hour and answer them? >> absolutely. >> okay. we'll have a lot of questions. thank you. >> fire away and ask your questions. thank you so much. we appreciate you coming. >> i appreciate coming in. >>> next on the rundown, she caught her daughter bullying on facebook. this is what happened next. >> i'm reading my bible, get your bible and show them that you're reading your bible. if i catch you on facebook, i'm beating the hell out of her. >> did that mom go too far? we'll report, you decide. >>> and this pro-second amendment t-shirt just got a guy thrown out of a polling place. do you think that's fair? we'll talk about it. ♪ [ male announcer ] marie callender's knows all white meat c

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