Reading Report Cards

Report cards are coming home!   I'd like to reflect on a few thoughts on how to read and use the information on the report card for mathematics and learning.

• Instead of a letter grade for mathematics, we have focused on highlighting the specific skills and learning strategies students are using.  These will come across a proficiencies on the separate math report card (math content and habits of learning).  Our focus for proficiencies is on growth.  
• The two major units of focus for the first trimester (rates and ratios for 6th and multiplication and division for 5th) are units we will revisit later in the year and build upon current understandings.  
• I view the mathematics and habits of learning as a continuum, an opportunity for growth.  The content for the major standards (rates and ratios or mult. and division) will arise again.  The biggest area I'm having students think about for growth are the habits of learning, as these are strategies and ideas that can be applied to any content in mathematics.  Becoming a more resilient and determined problem solver can have have huge implications for learning in mathematics, and this is an area kids are setting goals for themselves for the next trimester. 

Let me know if you have any questions.  

-Eric