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Mathematics Standards Committee

Summary of Proceedings

April 29-30, 2004

The Committee met on April 29-30 in Albany with 18 of 24 members present and did the following:

• Discussed with the SED staff the coordination of its work with the Department's test-development efforts for grades 3-8 under NCLB, notably the need to balance thoughtful identification of standards with the need for the test vendor to have the benefits of the Committee's thinking about standards as soon as possible.

• Shared feedback from colleagues back home about early draft performance indicators.

• Developed a draft new Standard 3.

• Recommended five content strands as a framework for performance indicators (key ideas) and six process strands. The Committee also drafted definitions for the content strands.

• Continued developing and refining performance indicators by grade level and strand using other jurisdictions' standards as a cross-check.