Math Specialists
Welcome to the 2024 - 2025 School Year!
Welcome to the 2024 - 2025 school year! This year is going to be an exciting one for math. We are looking forward to supporting you as we work together to make math a positive and enriching experience for all students and teachers. Here's to a fantastic year of mathematical growth and success!
Math Support Documents
The SC Department of Education provides math support documents to assist with planning and instruction. All support documents have a suggested scope and sequence. JCSD's curriculum documents are slightly different, but the standards are still the same. Use the support documents to get additional support with making sense of the standards, get ideas on how to teach the standards, and tasks/activities to support student learning.
To access your grade level, scroll down to "SCCCR-M." Click on your grade level support document. The standards at the top of the page are the new standards that we're not using this school year. The link to the page is below.
South Carolina Test Blueprints for the 2024 - 2025 School Year
According to the SC Department of Education,
"The test blueprint for each subject specifies the total number of points on each grade-level test, as well as the approximate number of points per reporting category or domain. Reporting categories group similar standards within each content area. Each reporting category classifies a student’s performance as “Low,” “Middle,” or “High.” This classification is based on the subset of items that assesses the reporting category. The possible number of items for each reporting category can be found in the test blueprint." Retrieved from Test Blueprints - South Carolina Department of Education - 09/22/2023 10:02 AM (sc.gov)
Click the links below to see the mathematics blueprints by test and grade levels.
SC Ready Grades 3 - 5 SC READY 3-5 Mathematics Test Blueprint
SC Ready Grades 6 - 8 SC READY 6-8 Mathematics Test Blueprint
End of Course Algebra 1 EOCEP Algebra 1 Test Blueprint (sc.gov)
Math Strategies for Multilingual Learners (MLLs)
To support our MLL students, the OIS team created a list of researched-based strategies to support students in their math classrooms. To access the document and additional links in the document, click the pdf below. Mrs. Dawn Thayer, the Multilingual Learner Coordinator, provides monthly professional development on supporting ML students in the classroom. For more information regarding our ESOL program, MLL students, and strategies to support MLLs, visit her page at ESOL – ESOL – Jasper County School District (jcsd.net).
The 2025 Math Standards Transition Plan
Below is a copy of the district-approved transition plan to the 2025 math standards. For the 2024 - 2025 school year, early learning (K - 2nd grades) will implement the 2025 math standards. For testing purposes, 3rd - high school will continue to teach the 2015 standards.
Full implementation of the math standards with testing occurs during the 2025 - 2026 school year.
2024 - 2025 BOY Math Sessions Presentation
JCSD Curriculum and Pacing Guides for Teachers
Family-Friendly Math Standards
Math Process Standards
1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them
2. Reason both contextually and abstractly
3. Use critical thinking skills to justify mathematical reasoning and critique the reasoning of others
4. Connect mathematical ideas and real-world situations through modeling
5. Use a variety of mathematical tools effectively and strategically
6. Communicate mathematically and approach mathematical situations with precision
7. Identify and utilize structure and patterns