Online Math Academy + Coaching

Deepen content knowledge and instructional practices to activate students’ reasoning and thinking when engaging in math tasks.


Academy Overview

CORE’s Online Math Academy (OMA) includes five courses that support educators in developing a deeper understanding of the K–5 mathematical content and pedagogy that leads to student proficiency with early number sense and fractions. These courses enhance participants’ understanding of concept connections, link physical and visual models to operations, and provide strategies for addressing misconceptions.

These asynchronous, interactive courses include various activities, such as videos of student learning, self-reflection, and discussion boards to share ideas with colleagues. To support participants’ learning, each OMA course includes virtual cohort coaching and progress monitoring.

Courses

Foundations for Numeracy for Grades K–2
  • Counting and Number Relationships

  • Early Operations

  • Understanding Whole Number Place Value

Fractions for Grades 3–5
  • Meaning, Equivalence, Addition, and Subtraction

  • Multiplication and Division with Fractions

Enroll Now

Please reach out to register an OMA course. We’re here to discuss possibilities that work with your professional development schedule.

By Participating, Educators Will:

  • Recognize that how students learn and work with math has a strong impact on what they learn about math.
  • Connect mathematical representations (concrete, visual/representational/pictorial, and abstract) to develop understanding of concepts and procedures.
  • Learn strategies to address common misconceptions.
  • Connect course resources, ideas, and activities to your own classroom practice.

97% of OMA participants indicated that the course exceeded or met their expectations.

OMA Features


Virtual Cohort Coaching

During each course, participants meet with their OMA facilitator four times. These virtual, synchronous coaching sessions allow teachers to discuss and collaborate on key ideas from the course and how to apply them to their teaching.


Teacher Progress Monitoring

Throughout each course, district contacts will receive progress monitoring reports and direct communication with a CORE client manager so that they can support their teachers in engaging in and completing the course.

What Our Partners are Saying About OMA

“The strategies shared and reasonings behind the research/pedagogies were very insightful and exciting to learn about.”

OMA Participant

Fractions: Meaning, Equivalence, Addition, and Subtraction

“The visual aids used in the lectures and the practical assignments given out encouraged deeper understanding of the subject matter, all under the guidance of inspirational and experienced instructors.”

OMA Participant

Foundations in Numeracy: Counting & Number Relationships

“I loved how it felt easy to accomplish. Somehow, a large amount of information was reviewed in the span of 8 weeks.”

OMA Participant

Foundations in Numeracy: Counting & Number Relationships

Meet Our Experts

Cyndia Ackerman
Cyndia Acker-Ramirez

Vice President, Mathematics | CORE Learning

Cyndia partners with schools and districts to reimagine job-embedded professional learning, with a focus on the instructional core, instructional decision-making, and leveraging curricular materials to deepen students’ mathematical understanding.

Dr. Katie Kaskasky
Katie Laskasky

Mathematics Manager | CORE Learning

Katie works to collaboratively develop and support the implementation of CORE’s professional learning and coaching model with schools and districts to include developing teacher capacity in instructional decision-making and integrating job-embedded curriculum implementation support.

Tatiana Mirzaian
Tatiana Mirzaian

Mathematics Manager | CORE Learning

Tatiana partners with schools and districts to deepen teacher pedagogical content knowledge and develop their capacity in instructional decision-making.

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