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