Our authentic tasks include differentiated versions and provide teachers and administrators with a way of assessing students' problem-solving and communication skills. Real-world material engages students and helps them develop critical thinking and reasoning skills.
Real teachers talk about Exemplars, live at NCTM in Hartford, CT.
Watch this class of first graders from the Tokyo International School work with Math Exemplars.
Watch this explanation of how word problems are different from problem solving.
Exemplars Number and Operations Workshop.
Implementing Exemplars problem solving.
Fourth grade students discuss Exemplars problem solving.
Fifth grade reflections on Exemplars rubric and problem solving.
Fourth graders offer advice on problem solving.
Watch students meet the Math Practices.
Watch teachers review student work using the Exemplars math rubric.
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News From Exemplars
Exemplars Performance Materials for Mathematics Meet ESSA's Tier 3 Standards
We are pleased to announce that ReContext Data Solutions, LLC, an independent, outside research organization, has determined that Exemplars performance material in mathematics is “evidence-based” and meets ESSA’s Tier 3 standards.
Performance Tasks: What’s the Point?
Solving complex problems requires intentional practice. Success with performance tasks can take time. Specific stages of student understanding can be scaffolded to work methodically towards strong products. Persistent success is not going to be found if we only give performance tasks in isolation.
What People Are Saying
If you walk into a Tacoma classroom during math instruction, you will see kids huddled around an Exemplars task, cooperatively selecting their problem-solving strategy. Rich conversations will follow, in which students will not only defend their solutions, but also get a chance to study alternative strategies unveiled by other groups assigned to solve that very same problem ...
Gaye Lantz
Curriculum Coordinator
Tacoma School District
... Exemplars has problems which allow for the constructivist approach demanded by the Common Core.
D. Personte
Teacher