Embedded Files
OUR's mission is to increase equity in education by making excellent, top-rated curricula openly available to districts.
How to use
How to use
Open Up Resources?
Open Up Resources?
Open Up Resources can be found in your WakeId home screen under the blue CANVAS icon. Click on Merchant Math & then on the Unit # you want. "OUR" will be with us all year so get comfy with getting around inside it!
Open Up Resources can be found in your WakeId home screen under the blue CANVAS icon. Click on Merchant Math & then on the Unit # you want. "OUR" will be with us all year so get comfy with getting around inside it!
"OUR" is our curriculum (that means we have a book for you!)
"OUR" is our curriculum (that means we have a book for you!)
This is a sample of what you will see for each chapter. We encourage you to watch and read the unit overview before the unit begins. Then check out the key vocabulary words you will learn in the unit. A great way to get a jump on your lessons. Each online lesson matches perfectly with your booklet.
This is a sample of what you will see for each chapter. We encourage you to watch and read the unit overview before the unit begins. Then check out the key vocabulary words you will learn in the unit. A great way to get a jump on your lessons. Each online lesson matches perfectly with your booklet.
No login required
No login required
You simply click on the BLUE CANVAS ICON in your WakeId account.
You simply click on the BLUE CANVAS ICON in your WakeId account.
For Teachers (boring stuff but needs to be said!):
For Teachers (boring stuff but needs to be said!):
Getting Started with Open Up Resources (OUR) - Teacher Edition
Getting Started with Open Up Resources (OUR) - Teacher Edition
Mathematical Technology
Mathematical Technology
- Open Up Resources is a Mathematical Action and Conveyance Technology tool based on our North Carolina Standards and merged perfectly with all the mathematical content and materials you need to be successful in your classroom. Each unit has interactive tools, videos, and full lessons with ELL scaffolding including warm-ups, group work, and cool-downs. Wake County Public School System uses the full online and print version of OUR as their curricula for middle grades 6-8.
COPPA/FERPA compliant: yes
COPPA/FERPA compliant: yes
ISTE Standards:
ISTE Standards:
- Students become Empowered Learners by reinforcing mathematical ideas on fun assessments.
- Students are Digital Citizens by recognizing the rights, responsibilities and opportunities of everyone while learning and working in an interconnected digital world in ways that are safe, legal and ethical.
- Students build as Knowledge Constructors by actively exploring real-world issues and problems, developing ideas and theories and pursuing answers and solutions.
- Students become Innovative Designers using a variety of technologies within a design process to identify and solve problems by creating new, useful or imaginative solutions.
- Students become Computational Thinkers as they develop and employ strategies for understanding and solving problems in ways that leverage the power of technological methods to develop and test solutions.
- Students become excellent Global Collaborators by working on a team in a global and inclusive environment.
Cool features:
Cool features:
- OUR's free online full curriculum is making it simpler and more affordable for educators to use and personalize the materials to their individual classroom needs.
- Tailor built to state standards with videos for each lesson on YouTube. Awesome!
- Student material is included for print and web.
- Lessons are fully prepared in print and on the web simplifying planning. These lessons are well-planned and more robust each day.
- They have inserted ELL scaffolding in every lesson. Wow!
Limitations:
Limitations:
- OUR is rigid in its curricula. You will need outside sourced mathematical to vary instruction if you need to increase student engagement.
- There are limited dynamic "hands on" activities for students to manipulate mathematical objects right now...BUT they are increasing each year.
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