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Resources for Eureka Math or Engage NY
Eureka Math Bay Area Regional Consortium. http://embarc.online/Our vision is:
  • To build a collaborative community of Eureka Math users
  • To provide a common website to support all users of the Eureka Math curriculum
Cick on Enter, choose the grade level, and many resources are there!  Google presentations and Flipchart files are created for each of the lessons at each grade level!

ZEARN - http://www.zearn.org is a new website aligned to the Eureka Math/Engage NY Math curricula.  It allows for computer based lessons with teacher reports to help plan quality instruction!

Oakdale Joint School District has created a wonderful website that includes vocabulary cards, parent letters, and videos for the math curriculum.


K-12 Learn Zillion - is a learning platform that combines video lessons, assessments, and progress reporting.  Each lesson highlights a Common Core Standards, starting with math in grades 3-9. The site began with E.L. Haynes Public Charter School in Washington, D.C. and has grown to include other teachers across the country.

Math Practice Standards

www.corestandards.org for the Common Core Standards. Go to Read the Standards and choose Math.
Read the practice standards and ask questions to promote thinking and reasoning!

The 8 Mathematical Practices
  1. Solve Problems and Persevere in Solving
  2. Reason Abstractly and Quantitatively
  3. Create Viable Arguments and Critique the Reasoning of Others
  4. Model with Mathematics
  5. Use Tools Strategically
  6. Attend to Precision
  7. Make Use of Structure
  8. Use Regularity with Repeated Reasoning

This document helps to explain the Math Practice Standards for Elementary Teachers.

Teaching the Lesson

All Files are on the Google Drive.
  1. Go to Google and log into your email.
  2. Click on the waffle and select Google Drive.
  3. In the left hand frame, click shared with me.
Books and Materials
  1. Teacher Module books are the same as the teacher PDF files in the shared folder.
  2. Student A files are the same as the Student Workbooks that contain the templates, problem sets, and homework.
  3. All exit tickets, sprints, and assessments will need to be copied.
Teaching the Lesson
  1. Keep the fluencies and application problems together unless otherwise noted. Keep to time limits!
  2. The Concept Development, Problem Set, Student Debrief, and Exit Ticket are taught together.
  3. Students will have the Personal Whiteboards, marker, eraser, and manipulatives during the Concept Development.
  4. Student workbooks will be needed for the Problem Set, Homework, and Templates.