Uncovering Student Thinking About Mathematics in the Common Core, Grades 6-8: 25 Formative Assessment Probes

About Carolyn B. ArlineCheryl Rose Tobey

Cheryl Rose Tobey is a senior mathematics associate at Education Development Center (EDC) in Massachusetts. She is the project director for Formative Assessment in the Mathematics Classroom: Engaging Teachers and Students (FACETS) and a mathematics specialist for Differentiated Professional Development: Building Mathematics Knowledge for Teaching Struggling Students (DPD); both projects are funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). She also serves as a director of development for an Institute for Educational Science (IES) project Eliciting Mathematics Misconceptions (EM2). Her work is primarily in the areas of formative assessment and professional development. Prior to joining EDC Tobey was the senior program director for mathematics at the Maine Mathematics and Science Alliance (MMSA) where she served as the coprincipal investigator of the mathematics section of the NSF-funded Curriculum Topic Study and principal investigator and project director of two Title IIa state Mathematics and Science Partnership projects. Prior to working on these projects Tobey was the coprincipal investigator and project director for MMSAs NSF-funded Local Systemic Change Initiative Broadening Educational Access to Mathematics in Maine (BEAMM) and she was a fellow in Cohort 4 of the National Academy for Science and Mathematics Education Leadership. She is the coauthor of six published Corwin books including seven books in the Uncovering Student Thinking series (2007 2009 2011 2013 2014) two Mathematics Curriculum Topic Study resources (2006 2012) and Mathematics Formative Assessment: 75 Practical Strategies for Linking Assessment Instruction and Learning (2011). Before joining MMSA in 2001 to begin working with teachers Tobey was a high school and middle school mathematics educator for ten years. She received her BS in secondary mathematics education from the University of Maine at Farmington and her MEd from City University in Seattle. She currently lives in Maine with her husband and blended family of five children. Carolyn B. Arline is a secondary mathematics educator currently teaching high school students in Maine. Carolyn also works as a teacher leader in the areas of mathematics professional development learning communities assessment systematic school reform standards-based teaching learning and grading student-centered classrooms and technology.  She has previously worked as a mathematics specialist at the Maine Mathematics and Science Alliance (MMSA) and continues her work with them as a consultant. Carolyn is a fellow of the second cohort group of the Governors Academy for Science and Mathematics Educators and serves as a mentor teacher with the current cohort. She participated as a mathematics mentor in the NSF-funded Northern New England Co-Mentoring Network (NNECN) and continues her role as a mentor teacher. She serves as a board member of the Association of Teachers of Mathematics in Maine (ATOMIM) and on local curriculum committees.  Carolyn received her B.S. in secondary mathematics education from the University of Maine.