INFORMAL SCIENCE 
MATH 
Resources
Most of the coaching and performance assessment materials listed here are available in a more user-friendly format on the Inside Mathematics website. We encourage you to visit the tools on Inside Mathematics and contact us if you have any questions.
COACHING MATERIALS
MAC Suggested Planning and Resource Material (Year Curriculum Map)
Math Coaching Observation Guide
PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT
Silicon Valley Mathematics Initiative Formative Assessment Program
Formative Mathematics Assessment: Standards, Performance Assessment Tasks and Student Work
How Performance Tasks Are Used to Inform Instruction
MARS Tasks & Tools for Teachers: 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
Problems of the Month are available on the Inside Mathematics website.
LESSON STUDY
Lesson Study Group at Mills College
REPORTS & PRESENTATIONS
Pathways Report: Dead Ends and Wrong Turns on the Path Through Algebra - This report by Steve Waterman, educational consultant and former superintendent of Brisbane and Bayshore school districts, reflects on the implications of a study that examines the progression of students in several Bay Area school districts as they proceed from eighth to ninth grade math classes. The findings indicate that students and their parents face a bewildering array of course titles, that many students – even those who are successful – repeat Algebra, that repeating Algebra is not certain to yield better grades in ninth grade, and that placement decisions are correlated to ethnicity and parent education, but not gender.
EdSource 2009 Report: Algebra Policy in California
The Algebra Crisis – Presentation by David Foster at the California Algebra Forum, October 2008
The Real Change Agents: Building a Professional Learning Community – Presentation by David Foster at the California Mathematics Conference, November 2008
Reading Comprehension of Word Problems and Other Mathematical Text – Presentation by Phil Daro, January 2007
Math Intervention – Presentation by Phil Daro, January 2007
Mathematics Instruction for English Language Learners – Presentation by Luis Harold Asturias Méndez, November 2007