About the book

About the author

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A Guide to Oregon’s New K-5 Math Focal Points is an essential resource for every classroom, teacher, parent, and administrator who is committed to ensuring student success on Oregon’s knowledge and skills mathematics testing. 

This book features ready-to-use lessons, hands on activities, teaching strategy guides, practice testing and classroom prompts. Designed for quick implementation in any relevant classroom, this book is formatted for ease of use for all educators.

Oregon Math Standards
Developed by Portland metro-area educators, in conjunction with Portland State University’s Center for Student Success, this guide was written to reflect the most current standards as addressed by:

• Oregon Grade Level Mathematics Content Foundations and Standards
• National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Curriculum Focal Points
• Oregon Department of Education

Oregon Math Assessment Testing
To aid in teaching and assessing student knowledge and skills this guide includes:

• Over 65 in-depth math lessons
• Classroom activities
• Instructional strategies
• Assessment strategies
• Sample tests
• Prompts

Contributors

Portland Area Educators

• Jackie Cooke: Project Leader/Second Grade
  A Portland area educator since 1981 Ms. Cooke is also the co-editor and webmaster for TOMT, the professional journal of the Oregon Council Teachers of Mathematics (O.C.T.M.). 
• Dawn Kemp: Kindergarten
• Tina Hinchliff: First Grade
• Kathy Reed: Third Grade
• Terry Halligan: Fourth Grade
• Stephanie Legard: Fifth Grade
• Catherine Bernhard: Math Content Editor