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Overview
Overview
The district’s strategic plan, “Excellence for
All”, sets out a number of specific goals and strategies.
Goals include targets for student achievement in mathematics, and a
key strategy is to strengthen our teaching of mathematics and
science and build on our success with reading and
writing.
Seattle Public Schools
(SPS) will adopt an aligned curriculum for all grades in math and
science. An “aligned curriculum” means that students in
any one grade in the District are held to the same high
expectations (with the same high quality materials) and that those
expectations build on one another as students advance from one
grade level to the next.
An
aligned curriculum will allow Seattle Public Schools to provide
targeted support for teachers and schools, and a common set of
expectations across the District will allow us to better focus our
professional development offerings.
All
SPS instructional materials will be designed to meet cultural
relevance and accessibility standards, and will incorporate methods
for teaching all students, including Special Education students,
English Language Learners, and Advanced Learning
students.
If
you have any questions or concerns about the adoption process,
please contact Anna-Maria de la
Fuente, Mathematics Program Manager. Bringing concerns up early
in the process will help us stay accountable and transparent as we
move through the year, and help us ensure that our students have
new, aligned mathematics materials in September of 2009.
Elementary Mathematics Materials (adopted in
2006)
The Elementary Schools are using Everyday
Mathematics ,with supplemental practice materials from
Singapore
Math. Click here
for a Parent Guide to Everyday Mathematics. Click
here for a guide that shows how Singapore math practice
materials align with Everyday Math lessons. Elementary materials Frequently Asked Questions
(FAQ).
Middle School Mathematics Materials (adopted
in 2005)
The Middle Schools are using Connected Mathematics
2 (CMP2). Click here for
a Parent Guide to CMP2.
High School Mathematics
Materials (Adopted in 2009)
- Key Curriculum Press, Discovering Algebra, Discovering
Geometry, and Discovering Advanced Algebra
- Key Curriculum Press, PreCalculus with
Trigonometry
- Key Curriculum Press, Calculus
- Pearson/Addison-Wesley, Statistics: Modeling the
World
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