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Report Overview
Summary of Alignment & Usability: JUMP Math | Math
Math K-2
The instructional materials reviewed for JUMP Math K-2 partially meet expectations for alignment. The instructional materials meet expectations for Gateway 1: Focus and Coherence by not assessing topics before the grade level in which the topic should be introduced, devoting the majority of class time to the major work of the grade, and being coherent and consistent with the Standards. The instructional materials partially meet expectations for Gateway 2: Rigor and the Mathematical Practices by partially maintaining a balance of the aspects of rigor and partially attending to practice-content connections. The instructional materials were not reviewed for Gateway 3: Usability.
Kindergarten
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1st Grade
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2nd Grade
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Usability (Gateway 3)
Math 3-5
The instructional materials reviewed for JUMP Math 3-5 partially meet expectations for alignment. The instructional materials meet expectations for Gateway 1: Focus and Coherence by not assessing topics before the grade level in which the topic should be introduced, devoting the majority of class time to the major work of the grade, and being coherent and consistent with the Standards. The instructional materials partially meet expectations for Gateway 2: Rigor and the Mathematical Practices by partially maintaining a balance of the aspects of rigor and partially attending to practice-content connections. The instructional materials were not reviewed for Gateway 3: Usability.
3rd Grade
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4th Grade
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5th Grade
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Usability (Gateway 3)
Math 6-8
The instructional materials reviewed for JUMP Math 6-8 partially meet expectations for alignment. The instructional materials meet expectations for Gateway 1: Focus and Coherence by not assessing topics before the grade level in which the topic should be introduced, devoting the majority of class time to the major work of the grade, and being coherent and consistent with the Standards. The instructional materials partially meet expectations for Gateway 2: Rigor and the Mathematical Practices by partially maintaining a balance of the aspects of rigor and partially attending to practice-content connections. The instructional materials were not reviewed for Gateway 3: Usability.
6th Grade
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7th Grade
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8th Grade
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Report for 5th Grade
Alignment Summary
The instructional materials reviewed for JUMP Math Grade 5 partially meet expectations for alignment. The instructional materials meet expectations for focus and coherence by assessing grade-level content, devoting the majority of class time to the major work of the grade, and being coherent and consistent with the progressions in the Standards. The instructional materials partially meet expectations for rigor and the mathematical practices. The instructional materials partially meet the expectations for rigor by attending to conceptual understanding and procedural skill and fluency, and they also partially meet expectations for practice-content connections by identifying the mathematical practices and using them to enrich grade-level content.
5th Grade
Alignment (Gateway 1 & 2)
Usability (Gateway 3)
Overview of Gateway 1
Focus & Coherence
The instructional materials reviewed for JUMP Math Grade 5 meet expectations for Gateway 1. The instructional materials meet expectations for focus within the grade by assessing grade-level content and spending the majority of class time on the major work of the grade. The instructional materials meet expectations for being coherent and consistent with the Standards as they connect supporting content to enhance focus and coherence, have an amount of content that is viable for one school year, and foster coherence through connections at a single grade.
Gateway 1
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Criterion 1.1: Focus
The instructional materials reviewed for JUMP Math Grade 5 meet expectations for not assessing topics before the grade level in which the topic should be introduced. Above-grade-level assessment items are present and can be modified or omitted without significant impact on the underlying structure of the instructional materials.
Indicator 1A
The instructional materials reviewed for JUMP Math Grade 5 meet expectations for assessing grade-level content. Above-grade-level assessment items are present but could be easily omitted or edited without significant impact on the underlying structure of the instructional materials. Probability, statistical distribution, similarity, transformation, and congruence do not appear in the assessments. Examples of grade-level assessment items include:
- Student Resource, Assessment & Practice Book 1, Unit 5, NF5-15, Item 6, “Make the mixed numbers have the same denominator. Add the wholes and parts separately. 2 + 4 ” (5.NF.1) In Items 1-10, students are assessed on their ability to add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators (including mixed numbers) by replacing given fractions with equivalent fractions in such a way as to produce an equivalent sum or difference of fractions with like denominators.
- Student Resource, Book 2, Assessment & Practice, OA5-6, Item 5b, “Do the operations in the brackets first. Then write the answer. 7 + (3x2).” (5.OA.1).
- Teacher Resource, Sample Units and Quizzes, Book 2, Unit 2: Numbers and Operations - Fractions: Multiplying and Dividing Fractions, Quiz, Item 4, “Sam has 18 marbles. Jane has 1 times as many marbles as Sam. Mona has as many marbles as Sam. a. Without calculating, say who has the greatest number of marbles. Explain your answer; b. To check your answer in part a, calculate the number of marbles for Jane and Mona.” (5.NF.6)
- Teacher Resource, Sample Units and Quizzes, Book 2, Unit 6: Measurement and Data: Area and Volume Test, Item 2: “Find the volume of the stack made from unit cubes. Include units in your answer.” The item shows models of two rectangular prisms made from unit cubes. (5.MD.3a)
The following is an assessment item aligned to standards above Grade 5, but it can be modified or omitted without compromising the instructional materials:
- Teacher Resource, Sample Unit Quizzes and Tests, Book 1, Unit 3, Number and Operations in Base Ten, Multiplication, Quiz, Item 6 a,b, c, “a. Write 4 as a product; b. Express 3 x 3 x 3 x 3 x 3 as a power; c. Evaluate the power 2.” (6.EE.1)
Criterion 1.2: Coherence
The instructional materials reviewed for JUMP Math Grade 5 meet expectations for students and teachers using the materials as designed and devoting the majority of class time to the major work of the grade. Overall, instructional materials spend approximately 82 percent of class time on the major clusters of the grade.
Indicator 1B
The instructional materials reviewed for JUMP Math Grade 5 meet expectations for spending the majority of class time on the major work of the grade. Overall, approximately 82 percent of class time is devoted to major work of the grade.
The materials for Grade 5 include 14 units. In the materials, there are 170 lessons, and of those, 32 are Bridging lessons. According to the materials, Bridging lessons should not be “counted as part of the work of the year” (page A-59), so the number of lessons examined for this indicator is 138 lessons.
Three perspectives were considered: the number of units devoted to major work, the number of lessons devoted to major work, and the number of instructional days devoted to major work including days for unit assessments.
The percentages for each of the three perspectives follow:
- Units – Approximately 79 percent, 11 out of 14;
- Lessons – Approximately 82 percent, 113 out of 138; and
- Days – Approximately 82 percent, 124 out of 152.
The number of instructional days, approximately 82 percent, devoted to major work is the most reflective for this indicator because it represents the total amount of class time that addresses major work.
Criterion 1.3: Coherence
The instructional materials reviewed for JUMP Math Grade 5 meet expectations for being coherent and consistent with the Standards. The instructional materials connect supporting content to enhance focus and coherence, include an amount of content that is viable for one school year, and foster connections at a single grade. However, the instructional materials contain off-grade-level material and do not relate grade-level concepts explicitly to prior knowledge from earlier grades.
Indicator 1C
The instructional materials reviewed for JUMP Math Grade 5 meet expectations that supporting content enhances focus and coherence simultaneously by engaging students in the major work of the grade. When appropriate, the supporting work enhances and supports the major work of the grade.
Examples where connections are present include the following:
- 5.MD.1 supports the major work of 5.NBT.B. In Teacher Resource, Part 1, Unit 7, Lessons MD5-1 to MD5-9, Teacher Resource, Part 2, Unit 5, Lessons MD5-11 to MD5-16, and Teacher Resource, Part 2, Unit 6, Lessons MD5-33 to MD5-38, students use measurement in the metric system to support the work of multiplying by multiples of 10 through many opportunities to convert within this system.
- 5.MD.2 supports the major work of 5.NF. In Teacher Resource, Part 1, Unit 5, Lessons NF5-10, NF5-17, and NF5-18 have students measure and draw line plots supporting the work of the Number and Operations - Fractions domain.
Indicator 1D
The instructional materials reviewed for JUMP Math Grade 5 meet expectations for having an amount of content designated for one grade level that is viable for one school year in order to foster coherence between grades. Overall, the amount of time needed to complete the lessons is approximately 138 days, which is appropriate for a school year of approximately 140-190 days.
- The materials are written with 14 units containing a total of 170 lessons.
- Each lesson is designed to be implemented during the course of one 45 minute class period per day. In the materials, there are 170 lessons, and of those, 32 are Bridging lessons. Bridging lessons have been removed from the count because the Teacher Resource states that they are not counted as part of the work for the year, so the number of lessons examined for this indicator is 138 lessons.
- There are 14 unit tests which are counted as 14 extra days of instruction.
- There is a short quiz every 3-5 lessons. Materials expect these quizzes to take no more than 10 minutes, so they are not counted as extra days of instruction.
Indicator 1E
The instructional materials reviewed for JUMP Math Grade 5 partially meet expectations for being consistent with the progressions in the Standards. Overall, the materials address the standards for this grade level and provide all students extensive work with grade-level problems. The materials make connections to content in future grades, but they do not explicitly relate grade-level concepts to prior knowledge from earlier grades.
The materials develop according to the grade-by-grade progressions in the Standards. Content from future grades is not always clearly identified but often related to grade-level work. The Teacher Resource contains sections that highlight the development of the grade-by-grade progressions in the materials, occasionally identify content from future grades, and state the relationship to grade-level work.
- At the beginning of each unit, This Unit in Context provides a description of connections to concepts that have been taught earlier in the year and that will occur in future grade levels. For example, This Unit in Context from Unit 3, Number and Operations in Base Ten: Multiplication, of Teacher Resource, Part 1, describes how "in Grade 3 students were introduced to multiplication as repeated addition and they interpreted the product of two numbers as the total number of objects when given a number of equal groups and the number in each group (3.OA.1)." Connection to future content is also stated such as "In this unit, students will identify relationships between corresponding terms in sequences made with multiplication (5.OA.3). Identifying relationships between corresponding terms in two sequences is an essential prerequisite for when students write formulas to represent the rule of functions in Grade 8 (8.F.1),"
The materials give all students extensive work with grade-level problems. The lessons also include Extensions, and the problems in these sections are on grade level.
- Whole class instruction is used in the lessons, and all students are expected to do the same work throughout the lesson. Individual, small-group, or whole-class instruction occurs in the lessons.
- The problems in the Assessment & Practice books align to the content of the lessons, and they provide on-grade-level problems that "were designed to help students develop confidence, fluency, and practice." (page A-56, Teacher Resource, Part 1)
- In the Extensions sections of the Lessons, students get the opportunity to engage with more difficult problems, but the problems are still aligned to grade-level standards. For example, the problems in Teacher Resource, Part 2, Unit 6, Lesson NF5-24 engage students in finding the area of the rectangle, but these problems still align to 5.NF.4b.
The instructional materials do not relate grade-level concepts explicitly to prior knowledge from earlier grades. Examples of these missing explicit connections include:
- Every lesson identifies Prior Knowledge Required even though the prior knowledge identified is not aligned to any grade-level standards. For example, Teacher Resource, Part 2, Unit 5, Lesson MD5-19 identifies that a student "(k)nows how to tell time using a 12-hour clock format,” “(k)nows that 1 h = 60 min,” “(c)an convert time from hours to minutes,” and “(i)s familiar with a.m./p.m. notation.”
- There are 32 lessons identified as Bridging lessons, and most of these lessons are not aligned to standards from prior grades but state for which grade level standards they are preparation. Teacher Resource, Part 2, Unit 7, Lesson G5-6, which has students identifying and drawing line segments, lines, rays, and angles, is preparation for 5.G.3 and 5.G.4.
Indicator 1F
The instructional materials reviewed for JUMP Math Grade 5 meet expectations for fostering coherence through connections at a single grade, where appropriate and required by the Standards. Overall, the materials include learning objectives that are visibly shaped by CCSSM cluster headings.
Overall, units are organized by domains and are clearly labeled. For example, Teacher Resource, Part 1, Unit 1, Operations and Algebraic Thinking: Patterns and Teacher Resource, Part 1, Unit 5, Number and Operations-Fractions: Fractions are shaped by the Operations and Algebraic Thinking and Number and Operations-Fractions domains. Throughout the course, all standards are addressed, and within lessons, goals are written that are shaped by the CCSSM cluster headings.
The instructional materials do include some problems and activities that serve to connect two or more clusters in a domain. Instances where two or more clusters within a domain are connected include the following:
- In Teacher Resource, Part 1, Unit 3, Lesson NBT5-17, students write a power as a product and a product as a power. This lesson connects 5.NBT.A and 5.NBT.B.
- In Teacher Resource, Part 1, Unit 5, Lesson NF5-19, students compare fractions, review equivalent fractions, and solve word problems connecting 5.NF.A and 5.NF.B.
- In Teacher Resource, Part 2, Unit 4, Lesson NBT5-55, students multiply fractions and then their corresponding decimals. This lesson connects 5.NBT.A and 5.NBT.B.
The instructional materials also include problems and activities that connect two or more domains in a grade, in cases where these connections are natural and important. Instances where two or more domains are connected include the following:
- In Teacher Resource, Part 2, Unit 5, Lesson MD5-15, students convert between pounds and ounces, connecting 5.MD and 5.NF.
- In Teacher Resource, Part 2, Unit 6, Lesson MD5-25, students solve problems connected to the area of rectangles, connecting 5.NF and 5.NBT.
Overview of Gateway 2
Rigor & Mathematical Practices
The instructional materials reviewed for JUMP Mathematics Grade 5 partially meet expectations for Gateway 2. The instructional materials partially meet expectations for rigor by developing conceptual understanding of key mathematical concepts, giving attention throughout the year to procedural skill and fluency, and spending some time working with routine applications. The instructional materials do not always treat the three aspects of rigor together or separately, but they do place heavier emphasis on procedural skill and fluency. The instructional materials partially meet expectations for practice-content connections. Although the instructional materials meet expectations for identifying and using the MPs to enrich mathematics content, they partially attend to the full meaning of each practice standard. The instructional materials partially attend to the specialized language of mathematics.
Gateway 2
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Criterion 2.1: Rigor
The instructional materials reviewed for JUMP Mathematics Grade 5 partially meet expectations for rigor by developing conceptual understanding of key mathematical concepts, giving attention throughout the year to procedural skill and fluency, and spending some time working with routine applications. The instructional materials do not always treat the three aspects of rigor together or separately, but they do place heavier emphasis on procedural skill and fluency.
Indicator 2A
The instructional materials reviewed for JUMP Math Grade 5 meet expectations for developing conceptual understanding of key mathematical concepts, especially where called for in specific standards or cluster headings. The materials include problems and questions that develop conceptual understanding throughout the grade level. The instructional materials provide students few opportunities to independently demonstrate conceptual understanding without teacher direction throughout the grade level.
5.NBT addresses understanding the place value system and performing operations with multi-digit whole numbers and with decimals to hundredths In both books and in multiple units. The materials explore a variety of real world applications using few mathematical representations. Opportunities exist for students to work with place value that call for conceptual understanding. Examples include:
- Teacher Resource, Part 2, Unit 4, Lesson NBT5-55, “3 x SAY: We can find this product by finding of . This is the area created where the two shadings done by students overlap (see example in margin). ASK: What decimal fraction does the overlapped shading represent? () SAY: So x = .”
- Student Resource, Assessment & Practice Book, Part 1, Lesson NBT5-46, Item 1, Regroup every tenth as 1 one. “b. 16 tenths = ___ones + ___ tenths” (same structure for Items a-e). (5.NBT.7)
- Teacher Resource, Part 2, Unit 4, Lesson NBT5-54, “2. 13 x 3 ASK: What addition question can you use to find the product? Ask for a volunteer to write the answer on the board. (2.13 + 2.13 + 2.13) Ask students to use base ten materials to add 2.13 + 2.13 + 2.13 (6.39; see diagram below).” The diagram below shows 6 flats, 3 rods, and 9 units.
- Teacher Resource, Part 2, Unit 2, Lesson NF5-21, “Multiplying fractions by unit fractions. Demonstrate finding half of by dividing an area model of the fraction into a top half and a bottom half.”
The materials provide some problems that provide opportunities for students to demonstrate conceptual understanding, examples include but are not limited to:
- Teacher Resource, Part 2, Unit 2, Lesson NF5-2, Extensions, Item 1, “Here is another way of dividing the fraction in half. Instead of dividing a model into a top half and a bottom half, divide into a left half and a right half. (2 models shown of of =) No matter how you find the half of, the answer should always be the same. Draw two pictures to find the fraction of the fraction. a. of; b. of.” (5.NF.4) Students demonstrate conceptual understanding for multiplying unit fractions by drawing models.
Indicator 2B
The instructional materials reviewed for JUMP Math Grade 5 meet expectations for attending to those standards that set an expectation of procedural skill and fluency. The instructional materials develop procedural skill and fluency throughout the grade level. The materials provide opportunities for students to independently demonstrate procedural skill and fluency across the grade.
Examples that show the development of procedural skill and fluency include:
- Teacher Resource, Part 1, Unit 3, Lesson NBT5-24, “Multiplying by a multiple of 10. Remind students that multiplying by a multiple of 10 requires you to add a 0. Write on the board. 3x4=12 so 3x40=___ 7x5=35 so 7x50=___ 9x6=54 so 9x60=___.” (5.NBT.5)
- Student Resource, Assessment & Practice Book, Part 2, Lesson NBT5-64, Item 1a-d, “Perform the first two steps of long division with a two-digit divisor. 1a. 31⟌806 1b. 38⟌988” (5.NBT.6)
- Teacher Resource, Part 2, Unit 6, Lesson MD5-35, “Tom measured the dimensions of a 2 L juice carton and calculated the volume to be 200 cm3. Is his answer correct? Explain how you know. Answer: NO; 2 L=2,000mL=2,000cm3, so Tom’s answer is incorrect.” (5.MD.1)
Examples that show opportunities for students to independently demonstrate procedural skill and fluency across the grade include:
- In Student Resource, Assessment & Practice Book, Part 1, Lesson NF5-14, students complete 26 problems to find equivalent fractions, find common denominators, and add fractions with unlike denominators. (5.NF.1)
- Teacher Resource, Part 2, Unit 4, Lesson NBT5-67, “Each card has (on Side 1) a multiplication fact, decimal questions, and mixed-up answers AND (Side 2) the answers clearly identified. Player A: Hold up a flashcard so that you see Side 1. Match the questions to correct answers. Player B: Look at Side 2 and note when Player A matches the questions and answers correctly. After each card, switch roles and play again.” Students play a game using the Mental Math Decimal Flash Cards in the Blackline Masters.
- In Teacher Resource, Part 1, Unit 3, Lesson NBT5-13, students use Blackline Master page D-55 to practice multiplication facts.
Indicator 2C
The instructional materials reviewed for JUMP Math Grade 5 partially meet expectations for being designed so that teachers and students spend sufficient time working with engaging applications of the mathematics. Engaging applications include single- and multi-step problems, routine and non-routine, presented in a context in which the mathematics is applied. The materials include limited opportunities for students to independently engage in the application of nonroutine problems. Most problems are routine in nature and provide few opportunities for students to independently demonstrate the use of mathematics flexibly.
The instructional materials have few opportunities for students to engage in non-routine application throughout the grade level. There is little variety in situational contexts/problem types. Engaging applications include single- and multi-step word problems presented in a context in which the mathematics is applied; however, these problems are often routine, and students have few opportunities to engage with non-routine application problems. Examples of routine application problems include:
- Teacher Resource, Part 2, Lessons NF5-27, Practice Word Problems, “a. Three people share of a cake equally. What fraction of the cake does each person get? b. Eight people share pounds of chocolate equally. How much chocolate does each person get? c. Four people share of a meat pie. What fraction of the pie does each person get?” It is important to note that four, nearly identical problems, are offered in the Assessment and Practice, Part 2, Lesson NF5-27, Items 4-9.
- Teacher Resource, Unit 1, Lesson G5-4, Exercises, Item 3, “A helicopter set out from Grants Pass, OR, flew to Eugene, OR, and then flew to Willamette National Forest. How far did it fly?”
- Teacher Resource, Part 1, Unit 7, Lesson MD5-9,Extensions, Item 1, “A small box of rice weighs 1,362g and cost $5.60. A large bag of rice weighs 2.27kg and cost $9. How much do 5 small bags boxes weigh and cost? How much do 3 large bags weigh and cost? Which combination is a better buy?”
- Teacher Resource, Part 1, Unit 6, Extensions, Item 5, “In November, the students in Grade 5 class read 88 fiction books and 38 non-fiction books. They read one third as many books in December. How many books did they read in November and December altogether?”
Few opportunities for non-routine applications of mathematics are provided in the extensions and in the Assessment and Practice Books. Examples include:
- Teacher Resource, Part 1, Unit 7, Lesson MD5-4, Extensions, Item 2, “John has a strip of paper 1cm long and 2cm wide. He folds the strip so that it has a crease down its center. How can John use this strip as a benchmark to make each of these measurements? a. 5 cm; b. 3 cm; c. 1 cm”
- Teacher Resource, Part 2, Unit 5, Lesson MD-13, Extensions, Item 2c, “A car is traveling on a road with the distance markers shown in part 2a. At the first marker, the driver sees a reason to brake. Halfway to the other marker, the car crashes. A police officer is examining the scene of the crash. The speed limit for the road is 70 mi/hr. Was the car traveling at the speed limit or not? Explain.”
Indicator 2D
The instructional materials reviewed for JUMP Math Grade 5 partially meet expectations that the three aspects of rigor are not always treated together and are not always treated separately. All three aspects of rigor are present in the materials, but there is an over-emphasis on procedural skills and fluency.
The curriculum addresses conceptual understanding, procedural skill and fluency, and application standards, when called for, and evidence of opportunities where multiple aspects of rigor are used to support student learning and mastery of the standards. There are multiple lessons where one aspect of rigor is emphasized. The materials emphasize fluency, procedures, and algorithms.
Examples of conceptual understanding, procedural skill and fluency, and application presented separately in the materials include:
- Conceptual Understanding: Student Resource, Assessment & Practice Book, Part 1, Lesson NBT5-42, Item 2, “Write the decimal in expanded form using words and write the total number of thousandths.”
- Procedural Skill and Fluency: Student Resource, Assessment & Practice Book, Part 1, Lesson NBT5-24, includes 20 problems where students apply the algorithm step by step, then six problems where they complete a multiplication problem with all steps of the algorithm. Students practice the stages of the algorithm to multiply 3-digit numbers by 2-digit numbers.
- Application: Student Resource, Assessment & Practice Book, Part 2, Lesson NF5-26, “Kim has cups of paint. She uses of it to paint a shelf. a. How much paint did she use? b. Did Kim use more or less than 1 cup of paint? How do you know?”
Examples of where conceptual understanding, procedural skill and fluency, and application are presented together in the materials include:
- Student Resource, Assessment & Practice Book, Part 1, Lesson NBT5-26, Item 7, “In some countries it costs only $18 to buy lunch for a child for an entire year. a. How much money is needed to pay for lunch for a school of 354 children for the entire year? b. A generous donor gave $5,000 to the school. How much more money is needed to feed all the children for one year?” Students use the multiplication algorithm to solve word problems related to multiplication.
- Teacher Resource, Part 1, Unit 6, Lesson NBT5-46, Item, 12, “The mass of a dime is 2.268 g and the mass of a quarter is 5.670 g. What is the total mass of one dime and two quarters?” Conceptual understanding and application are engaged within this problem.
- Teacher Resource, Part 2, Unit 2, Lesson NF5-22, Item 9, ”Farah made apple juice. She used of a bag of apples on Saturday. She used of the rest of the apples on Sunday. What fraction of the bag did Farah use on Sunday? Reduce your answer to lowest terms.” Students engage conceptual understanding by using fraction models, engage procedural skills to solve equations multiplying two fractions, and apply these mathematics to solve word problems involving multiplication of fractions.
Criterion 2.2: Math Practices
The instructional materials reviewed for JUMP Math Grade 5 partially meet expectations for practice-content connections. Although the instructional materials meet expectations for identifying and using the MPs to enrich mathematics content, they partially attend to the full meaning of each practice standard. The instructional materials partially attend to the specialized language of mathematics.
Indicator 2E
The instructional materials reviewed for JUMP Math Grade 5 meet expectations for identifying the Standards for Mathematical Practice and using them to enrich mathematics content within and throughout the grade level.
All 8 MPs are clearly identified throughout the materials, with few or no exceptions. Examples include:
- The Mathematical Practices are identified at the beginning of each unit in the Mathematical Practices in this Unit.
- Mathematical Practices in this Unit gives suggestions on how students can show they have met a Mathematical Practice. For example, in Unit 5, Measurement and Data: US Customary Units “MP.4: In Lesson MD5-15 Extensions, problem 3, students model mathematically when they use either a T-table or number lines to model and solve a real-world situation. In Lesson MD5-21, Extensions, problem 1, students use equations and/or timelines to model and solve a real-world problem involving elapsed time.”
- Mathematical Practices in this Unit gives the Mathematical Practices that can be assessed in the unit. For example, in Unit 5 Measurement and Data: US Customary Units, “In this unit, you will have the opportunity to assess MP.1 to MP.7.”
- The Mathematical Practices are also identified in the materials in the lesson margins.
- In optional Problem Solving Lessons designed to develop specific problem-solving strategies, MPs are identified in specific components/problems in the lesson.
Indicator 2F
The instructional materials reviewed for JUMP Math Grade 5 partially meet expectations for carefully attending to the full meaning of each practice standard. The materials do not attend to the full meaning of MPs 4 and 5.
Examples of the materials carefully attending to the meaning of some MPs include:
- MP1: Teacher Resource, Part 1, Unit 2, Lesson NBT5-5, Extensions, Item 5, “Hannah writes two number sequences. The first sequence starts at 0. Any term in the second sequence is always 5 less than the next term in that sequence. Each term in the second sequence is 10 more than the same term in the first sequence. Write a rule for each sequence.” Students have the opportunity to make sense of problems and design appropriate solution pathways.
- MP2: Teacher Resource, Part 1, Unit 3, Lesson NBT5-15, Extensions, Item 6, “Use any tool such as play money, base-10 blocks, or sketches of these to model and solve the multiplication. Explain how your model shows the multiplication. a. 40 x 10 b. 32 x 10 c. 57 x 100.” Students reason quantitatively to represent abstract problems.
- MP6: In Teacher Resource, Part 1, Unit 5, Lesson NF5-14, students attend to precision when subtracting fractions with unlike denominators as they calculate a common denominator and then carry out the subtraction operation.
- MP7: Teacher Resource, Part 1, Unit 3, Lesson NBT5-15, Extensions, Item 2: “Find as many answers as you can using multiples of 10 for each question. a. __ x __ = 40,000; b. __ x __ = 120,000” Students look for and make use of structures when working with multiples.
- MP8: Teacher Resource, Part 1, Unit 2, Lesson NBT5-1, Item 3, “Nina and Sal save their allowance to donate to charity. Nina starts with $500 and Sal starts with $360. They both get $20 per week. When they are ready to donate, Nina has $1000. How much money do they donate all together? Explain how you know.” Students apply repeated reasoning to extend a sequence and solve word problems.
For MP4, students are given models to use and have few opportunities to develop their own mathematical models. In addition, students have few opportunities to compare different models in problem contexts. Examples include:
- Teacher Resource, Part 1, Unit 2, Lesson NBT5-8, Extensions, Item 2, “Amy and Jin sell cookies to raise money for charity. There are 15 cookies in each box. Amy starts with 518 boxes and Jin starts with 372 boxes. They each sell 12 boxes a day. After a certain number of days, Jin has 300 boxes left. How many boxes does Amy have left? Find the answer using sequences. Show your work and write your answer as a complete sentence.”
- Teacher Resource, Part 2, Unit 6, Lesson MD5-29, Extensions, Item 2, “a. Mandy coaches a baseball team. She has a pizza party for her team and spent $95.95 for 5 pizzas. Each pizza cost the same amount. Three of the pizzas were vegetarian. One of the vegetarian pizzas had pineapple on it. How much did the vegetarian pizzas cost? b. Which facts did you not need to use in part a? Explain.” The students are not developing their own models or comparing different models.
For MP5, students are given few opportunities to use tools strategically, as they are most often given the tools to use for a problem. Examples include:
- Teacher Resource, Part 1, Unit 3, Lesson NBT5-35, Extensions, Item 2, “a. Use long division to find 656 / 8. Use money, base-10 blocks, or sketches of these, to explain each step. b Create a story problem about sharing money or base ten blocks that matches the division. Explain what each step in the long division is in your story problem.”
- Teacher Resource, Part 2, Unit 4, Lesson NBT5-59, Extensions, Item 4, “Use money or base-10 blocks and math words like regrouping, hundredths, and tenths to explain why 4.65 x 3 = 13.95.”
- Teacher Resource, Part 2, Unit 7, Lesson G5-18/G5-19, Extensions, Item 2, “Nancy has one large cubic box and one small cubic box. To measure the volume of each, she fills them with cubic blocks, each measuring 1 cubic foot. She uses 91 blocks altogether and the blocks fill the boxes perfectly. How much larger is the larger box than the smaller box? Use one or more of these tools: a number line, a pan balance, base-10 blocks, a ruler, a T-table, connecting cubes, grid paper, pattern blocks, pencil and paper sketches.”
Indicator 2G
Indicator 2G.i
The instructional materials reviewed for JUMP Math Grade 5 partially meet expectations for prompting students to construct viable arguments and analyze the arguments of others concerning key grade-level mathematics detailed in the content standards.
There are few opportunities in the Teacher Resource or the Assessment & Practice for students to construct viable arguments or analyze the arguments or the work of others. MP3 is identified in the margins of the lesson. Examples of where the materials prompt students to construct viable arguments or analyze the arguments of others include, but are not limited to:
- Teacher Resource, Part 1, Unit 3, Lesson NBT5-19, Extensions, Item 3, “Look at the following statement: If you multiply a whole number by 10,000, the number of zeros in the product will be ___. a. Rani says the blank should be 4, since there are 4 zeros in 10,000. Do you agree with Rani?”
- Teacher Resource, Part 2, Unit 2, Lesson NF5-31, Extensions, Item 3, “John adds + = . What mistake did he make? How can you tell by estimating that the answer is correct? Explain.”
- Teacher Resource, Part 2, Unit 6, Lesson MD5-30, Extensions, Item 4, “Tony says, ‘Since there are 1,000 millilites in a liter, millileters must be bigger than liters.’ Explain why you agree or disagree with Tony’s reasoning.”
- Teacher Resource, Part 2 Unit 4, Lesson NBT5-57, Extensions, Item 5, “To multiply 3.2 and 7.1, Tessa multiplies 32 and 71 first. She then moves the decimal in the product two places to the left because the rule says to add the number of places after the decimal point to each factor. Tesa knows the rule, but she doesn’t understand why the rule works.” Part a helps guide the student. Part b. “In pairs, explain your answers to part a. Do you agree with each other? Discuss why or why not.”
Examples where the materials miss opportunities to prompt students to construct viable arguments or analyze the arguments of others include, but are not limited to:
- Teacher Resource, Part 1, Unit 6, Lesson NBT5-39, Extensions, Item 2 “a. Is there a largest power of 10? Explain. b. Is there a smallest decimal fraction? How do you know?” Students do not construct a viable argument or analyze the arguments of others, only explain the solution.
- Teacher Resource, Part 1, Unit 5, Lesson, NF5-17, Extensions 6: “a. Find: of 2, of 3, of 4, of 5, of 6, of 7. Do you see a pattern? Predict of 384. Explain your reasoning. b. Find the fractions of a number. Explain your result. of 3, of 5, of 9, of 15, of 11” Students do not construct a viable argument or analyze the arguments of others, only explain the solution.
Indicator 2G.ii
The instructional materials reviewed for JUMP Math Grade 5 partially meet expectations for assisting teachers in engaging students to construct viable arguments and analyze the arguments of others concerning key grade-level mathematics.
Teacher guidance and questions are found in the lessons. In some lessons, teachers are given questions that prompt mathematical discussions and engage students to construct viable arguments, and in other lessons, teachers are provided questions and sentence stems to facilitate students in analyzing the arguments of others, and to justify their answers. Also, on page A49 in the “How to use the lesson plans flexibly” states, “When students work with a partner, many of them will benefit from some guidance, such as displaying question or sentence stems on the board to encourage partners to understand and challenge each other’s thinking, use of vocabulary, or choice of tools or strategies, For example:
- I did ___ the same way but got a different answer. Let’s compare our work.
- What does ___ mean?
- Why is ___ true?
- Why do you think that ___ ?
- I don’t understand ___. Can you explain it a different way?
- Why did you use ___? (a particular strategy or tool)
- How did you come up with ___? (an idea or strategy)”
These sentence stems are used consistently during the Lessons and Extensions.
Examples where teachers are provided guidance to engage students in constructing viable arguments and/or analyze the arguments of others include, but are not limited to:
- Teacher Resource, Part 1, Unit 3, Lesson NBT5-20, Extensions, Item 4, “Encourage partners to ask questions to understand and challenge each other’s thinking. See page A-49 for sample sentence and question stems to guide students.”
- Teacher Resource, Part 1, Unit 5, Lesson NF5-18, Extensions, Item 2, “Encourage partners to ask questions to understand and challenge each other’s thinking and use of math words. See page A-49 for sample sentence and question stems to guide students.”
- Teacher Resource, Part 1, Unit 5, Lesson NF5-19, Extensions, Item 2, “Encourage partners to ask questions to understand and challenge each other’s thinking. See page A-49 for sample sentence and question stems to guide students.”
Within lessons, the teacher materials are not always clear about how teachers will engage and support students in constructing viable arguments or critiquing the reasoning of others. Materials identified with the MP3 standard often direct teachers to “choose a student to answer” or “have a volunteer fill in the blank.” Questions are provided but often do not encourage students to deeply engage in MP3. In addition, although answers are provided, there are no follow up questions to help redirect students who didn’t understand. Examples include:
- Teacher Resource, Part 1, Unit 6, Lesson NBT5-40, Extensions, Item 1, “NOTE: Encourage students to try examples in an organized way to look for a pattern.” The teacher is encouraged, but not given any samples.
- Teacher Resource, Part 1, Unit 2, Lesson NBT5-12, Extensions, Item 3, “a. What is the greatest seven-digit number you can create so that the number is a multiple of 5 and the millions digit is worth 200 times as much as the ten thousands digit? b. In pairs, explain how you know that your answers in part a) are correct. Do you agree with each other? Discuss why or why not.” The teacher asks students to explain, but the materials do not give any other suggestions to the teacher.
- Teacher Resource, Part 2, Unit 2, Lesson NF5-31, Extensions, Item 3, "John adds + = . What mistake did he make? How can you tell by estimating that the answer is incorrect? Explain." Teachers are provided an answer but teachers are not given direction on how to help students build an argument.
- Teacher Resource, Part 2, Unit 3, Lesson OA5-7, Extensions, Item 4, "The smallest non-zero place value in 15.70 is the tenths place. a. What is the smallest non-zero place value in the sum? a. 4.6 + 5.2 ... b. Rob adds two numbers whose smallest non-zero place value is the tenths place. When does the sum also have the tenths place as the smallest non-zero place value? Try several examples and make a conjecture, or guess, of what the rule is. c. In pairs, explain why your conjectures are true. Do you agree with your partner? Discuss why or why not. The materials provide answers but not directions to the teachers for how to guide the students in constructing an argument.
Indicator 2G.iii
The instructional materials reviewed for JUMP Math Grade 5 partially meet expectations for explicitly attending to the specialized language of mathematics.
Accurate mathematics vocabulary is present in the materials; however, while vocabulary is identified throughout the materials, there is no explicit direction for instruction of the vocabulary in the teacher materials of the lesson. Examples include, but are not limited to:
- Vocabulary is identified in the Terminology section at the beginning of each unit.
- Vocabulary is identified at the beginning of each lesson.
- The vocabulary words and definitions are bold within the lesson.
- There is not a glossary.
- There is not a place for the students to practice the new vocabulary in the lessons.