Pierce County Careers Connection Project (PC3)

http://www.transitionmathproject.org/assets/graphics/logos/pc3_logo.jpgIn the Pierce County and South Puget Sound Region, the Pierce County Careers Connection Project (PC3) represents a diverse partnership including 14 school districts, business and labor, higher education, and public sector agencies. This one-year capacity-building grant focuses on crafting a compendium of workplace tasks that clearly demonstrate how math is used in various business and industry contexts. When complete, this information will be shared statewide through the Transition Math Project with the goal ensuring students and parents have a very clear picture of the kinds of math expected in today's workplace.
Targeted career areas

  • Scenarios will be collected from careers representing each pathway
  • There will be an initial in-depth focus on two high-wage, high-demand career clusters:
    • Healthcare
    • Engineering and Technology

Teams of educators will be engaged to:

  • use the industry-provided scenarios to write math problems
  • align the math problems with the College Readiness Standards and Grade Level Expectations

The scenario-based math problems will:

  • be used in both math and Career and Technical Education classes
  • educate students about potential careers
  • provide an opportunity for contextual learning for students
  • be reviewed by High school math teachers, Career and Technical Education teachers, and college developmental math instructors to ensure the problems are
    • compelling to teachers and students
    • address specific teaching needs

Through this process we hope to provide a strategy to:

  • increase college-readiness in students
  • foster connections between CTE/professional-technical educators, math educators, and business representatives
  • support the link between career planning and academic achievement

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