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Explore materials and tasks aligned to the Common Core standards that you can use immediately with your students. Look below for more information on the Mathematical Practice Standards. Inside Mathematics illuminates the mathematical practice standards with video excerpts of mathematics lessons. Explore real classrooms with real teachers to learn how they engage their students in mathematical habits of mind. Teaching involves developing the whole child, not only as good mathematicians but as good people—friends, colleagues, innovators, and citizens. Through Inside Mathematics, K–12 educators can strengthen their classroom teaching by viewing—and trying out—best practices and resources from fellow teachers and instructional coaches

Inside Mathematics includes videos and other resources that showcase real mathematics teaching and learning, freely available to educators around the world. A service of the Charles A. Dana Center at The University of Texas at Austin, Inside Mathematics continues to explore everyday classrooms, with new content updated regularly. From number talk videos in real classrooms to non-routine math problems to common core resources, Inside Mathematics has something for teachers and instructional coaches at all skill levels. Learning from the practices of others is a powerful way to improve teaching. Here, you can explore real mathematics teaching and learning by exploring everyday classrooms where educators are working to refine their mathematics teaching practices.

Explore Inside Mathematics video lessons These tasks are grade-level formative performance assessment tasks aligned to the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics. Some have accompanying scoring rubrics and discussion of student work samples. Others, such as the Dana Center Early Mathematics Tasks, connect to children’s literature. For over a decade, research on math education in high-performing countries has shown that the U.S. needs a more focused and coherent approach to improve math achievement.

To address this, the Common Core math standards were created to tackle the issue of a curriculum that’s "a mile wide and an inch deep." These standards are built on the best practices from high-quality math standards across various states. They also incorporate important international models and insights from research, educators, state education departments, and the public to ensure they are effective and meaningful. The math standards aim to be clear and specific, focusing on key concepts and how they connect to broader mathematical principles like place value and the laws of arithmetic. This approach ensures students not only learn the concepts but also understand how to apply them in different situations. The sequence of topics in the standards respects what we know about how students learn math over time.

As students progress through grades, they will face carefully designed challenges that help build their knowledge step by step. The standards are based on research about how mathematical understanding develops, making sure that students are prepared for college, careers, and real-world problem-solving. The Common Core focuses on a clear set of math skills and concepts, teaching them in an organized way throughout the school year and across different grades. The goal is to help students apply these concepts to solve real-world problems. This work has been funded by © 2025 - AMP Network. All rights reserved

At Inside Mathematics, we've assembled multiple ways for educators to begin to transform their teaching practices. Click here to access specific tools for administrators, tools for coaches, and teacher reflections. The Inside Problem Solving tasks are non-routine math problems that promote a problem-solving theme at your classroom. The tasks are organized into five levels of difficulty, Level A (primary) through Level E (high school), to allow access and scaffolding for students into different aspects of the problem and to stretch students... Formative Re-Engaging Lessons involve a cycle of inquiry, instruction, assessment, analysis, selection, and re-engagement around a mathematical concept. Each Formative Re-Engaging Lesson includes a classroom video of the lesson, downloadable lesson plan, student pages, pre- and post-assessments, and supporting instructional materials.

Explore videos of mentors of mathematical practice engaging their students. Find all our videos and tasks supporting the Common Core standards for mathematical practice and mathematical content. Learning from the practices of others is a powerful way to improve teaching. Here, you can explore real mathematics teaching and learning by exploring everyday classrooms where educators are working to refine their mathematics teaching practices.

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