Online Math Academy
Deepen content knowledge and instructional practices to activate students’ reasoning and thinking when engaging in math tasks.
Academy Overview
CORE’s Online Math Academy courses build educators’ content and pedagogical content knowledge to strengthen teaching and learning.
Foundations for Numeracy Courses
- Counting and Number Relationships
- Early Operations – Coming Fall
- Understanding Place Value – Coming Fall
Fractions Courses
- Meaning, Equivalence, Addition, and Subtraction
- Multiplication and Division with Fractions
Big Ideas & Conceptual Domains
Orient student learning around connected concepts and relationships
Concrete- Representational- Abstract Models
Develop students’ flexible use of representations and strategies when doing math
Evidence-Based Practices
Learn instructional strategies grounded in how students learn math
Select a course and the number of people you would like to register using the drop-down menus below, then click “Register Now.” Registration closes one week before the course start date.
Online Math Academy — Fractions
Multiplication and Division with Fractions: Aug 24-Sept 20, 2023
Online Math Academy — Fractions
Meaning, Equivalence, Addition, and Subtraction: Sept 28-Oct 25, 2023
CORE’s Online Math Academy courses are offered multiple times each year and do not need to be taken in any order. Please note that registration is only open to those residing in the 50 U.S. states.
Outcomes
Content and Concepts – At the conclusion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Learn how concepts of counting and cardinality develop in early grades.
- Recognize the relationship between counting and a student’s deep understanding of numbers.
- Develop an understanding of how counting supports place value, composing and decomposing, and how numbers relate to one another.
- Connect counting strategies students use to how students solve addition and subtraction problems.
Pedagogical Content Knowledge – At the conclusion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Recognize that how students learn and work with math has a strong impact on what they learn about math.
- Apply and connect the Concrete, Pictorial, Abstract (CPA) sequence and strategies to build an understanding of numbers.
- Recognize the importance of varied and consistent practice with models, explanations, number relations, and counting.
- Focus on equitable practices which provide access for all students to reach proficiency with mathematics in grades K–2.
- Learn strategies to address common challenges.
- Gain ideas for activities you can use in the classroom.
- Connect to valuable resources to enhance your knowledge and provide additional ideas and activities for teaching and learning.
At the conclusion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Understand the progression of fraction concepts through multiple grade levels.
- Recognize the connections between whole number and fraction concepts and procedures.
- Recognize the connections within fraction concepts and procedures.
- Identify, connect, and understand how to use multiple representations of fractions (concrete, visual/representational, and abstract) to teach fraction concepts and operations.
- Access physical, digital, and visual models of fractions as means to make fraction concepts clear for students.
- Understand strategies to address common misconceptions with fractions.
- Connect content standards and the Standards for Mathematical Practices to the teaching and learning of fractions.
- Explain the recommendations and rationale from research for best practices in teaching about fractions.
- Apply learning to their own teaching (or coaching).
At the conclusion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Understand the progression of fraction concepts through multiple grade levels.
- Recognize the connections between whole number and fraction concepts and procedures.
- Recognize the connections within fraction concepts and procedures.
- Identify, connect, and understand how to use multiple representations of fractions (concrete, visual/representational, and abstract) to teach fraction concepts and operations.
- Access physical, digital, and visual models of fractions as means to make fraction concepts clear for students.
- Understand strategies to address common misconceptions with fractions.
- Connect content standards and the Standards for Mathematical Practices to the teaching and learning of fractions.
- Explain the recommendations and rationale from research for best practices in teaching about fractions.
- Apply learning to their own teaching (or coaching).
FAQ
There are no required materials for the course. All necessary materials are provided within the course.
These courses are for individuals or teams of elementary educators who want to learn effective standards-aligned and research-based practices for the teaching and learning of math for all learners.
Participants should have regular access to computers with an Internet connection and proficiency with email and current internet browsers.
CORE’s Online Math Academy courses are designed for:
- Teachers
- Math specialists
- Principals/assistant principals
- Math instructional coaches
- Special Education and intervention teachers
- Pre-service teachers or classes
Participants may receive one (1) graduate-level semester extension unit for an additional cost of $109 per course. Units are typically used for salary advancement. There are no additional requirements beyond the successful completion of the course. Participants may register and pay for this unit once the course has started.
A full refund of registration fees is available for cancellations 30 days or more prior to the course start date. A 50% refund is available for cancellations less than 30 days but more than 14 days prior to the course start date.
Contact events@corelearn.com to cancel your registration 14 or more days prior to the course start date.
No refunds are available 13 days or less prior to course start date or anytime on or after the course start date.
Meet Our Experts
Dean Ballard is the Director of Mathematics for CORE. Dean has developed CORE’s math trainings, overseen CORE’s expert math team and services, and worked extensively with schools, teachers, and consultants on effective instruction and implementation of rigorous standards through their core and intervention programs.
Cyndia Acker-Ramirez partners with schools and districts to reimagine job-embedded professional learning, with a focus on the instructional core, instructional decision-making, and leveraging curricular materials to deepen students’ mathematical understanding. As part of these efforts, Cyndia is leading the development and scale of CORE’s collaborative inquiry model that aims to support growth in student belonging, academic identity, and achievement while fostering teacher collective efficacy and individual agency in instructional decision-making.
As Program Manager, Katie Laskasky works to collaboratively develop and support the implementation of CORE’s professional learning and coaching model with schools and districts to include developing teacher capacity in instructional decision making and integrating job-embedded curriculum implementation support. Katie also revises CORE’s professional learning curriculum to deepen teacher pedagogical content knowledge in providing math instruction aligned to the CA Mathematics Framework.
As Program Manager, Tatiana Mirzaian works collaboratively to develop and support the implementation of CORE’s CORE’s Collaborative Inquiry model with schools and districts to reimagine job-embedded professional learning. In doing so, Tatiana works to create experiences with partnering schools and districts to deepen teacher pedagogical content knowledge and develop their capacity in instructional decision-making.