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SRA Math: Explorations and applications series or the Everyday Mathematics series?
I have been reading up on these and would like to hear from those who have seen these or used them.
Thanks and God bless,
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I haven't seen them - do you have a link? Thanks!
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The Everyday Mathematics series publishers website is being updated so I have copied a review here for you on the program.
Everyday Mathematics
The University of Chicago School Mathematics Project
UCSMP began developing its elementary curriculum in the summer of 1985 by working with teachers on the material that became Kindergarten Everyday Mathematics.
By then, the need for richer curriculum resources had been made clear by the results of our studies of K-3 children in a broad range of schools. These results clearly showed that the early school mathematics experience in the United States ignored many of the actual capabilities of young children. At the same time, reports from international studies showed U.S. students learning much less mathematics in grades K–6.
Principles for Building a New Curriculum
Research with children and teachers led us to a number of principles for developing the K–6 Everyday Mathematics curriculum.
From their own experience children construct an understanding of mathematics and acquire knowledge and skills. Everyday Mathematics begins with children’s experience and connects that experience with the discipline of mathematics. Mathematics is woven into daily classroom routines—jobs, attendance, weather tracking, the calendar, and even lining up.
Children begin school with a great deal of knowledge and intuition. Everyday Mathematics makes use of this knowledge and aims for significantly higher achievement than has traditionally been expected. Investigations in geometry, data and statistics, and early concepts of algebra begin in kindergarten and continue with greater sophistication throughout the grades. The curriculum helps children make the transition from intuition and concrete operations to abstract ideas and the use of symbols, while at the same time fostering new intuitions that will mature beyond sixth grade.
Excellent instruction is crucial. Teachers have many roles that the curriculum must support. These include explaining and demonstrating, questioning and leading discussions, managing practice, guiding practical work and explorations. Everyday Mathematics provides materials and procedures that help teachers to carry out the wide variety of instructional tasks that are required in a well-rounded program.
Reforms must take into account the working lives of teachers. Everyday Mathematics materials are designed to be manageable and include many suggestions and procedures that make teachers’ lives easier, at least in the long run.
Everyday Mathematics uses practical routines to build the arithmetic skills and quick responses that are so essential in a problem-rich environment. Routines that stress mental arithmetic also encourage students to be flexible in applying standard procedures in novel situations.
Structure and Format
The K–6 Everyday Mathematics curriculum goes beyond arithmetic to explore data gathering and analysis, probability, geometry, patterns, and algebra. Each grade in the program comprises 10 to 12 units, which are divided into 10 to 12 lessons. Highlights of this enriched curriculum include:
linking mathematics to everyday situations wherever possible
linking past experiences to new concepts and providing for ongoing review
providing considerable opportunity for cooperative learning through partner and small-group activities
developing concept readiness through hands-on activities and explorations
increasing "fact-power" by using basic number facts in many concept-oriented activities and by practicing through games
solving problems in more than one way and sharing and discussing different strategies
providing for a variety of assessment opportunities
enhancing home-school partnerships
Certain lessons in grades K–3 are “Explorations,” which provide children expanded opportunities to work in small groups exploring a concept through the use of hands-on materials. In all grades students have projects that are cross-curricular in nature and include observing, communicating, identifying, reading for mathematical content, and collecting, organizing and graphing data.
At all grade levels, students play games to reinforce the skills they have learned. These games relieve the tedium of fact practice while developing good fact power. Games can be played over and over without repeating the same problems because the numbers in most games are generated randomly.
For detailed information about this curriculum, go to the satellite site Everyday Mathematics.
Developer:
University of Chicago
5835 South Kimbark Ave.
Chicago, IL 60637
Contact: Andy Isaacs
Phone: (773) 702-9639
Email: aisaacs@midway.uchicago.edu
Web Address: http://everydaymath.uchicago.edu
Publisher:
SRA/McGraw-Hill
Contact: Bill Davidson, Customer Support
1Prudential Plaza, Suite 400
Chicago, IL 60601
Phone: (800) 382-7670 ext 7779
Fax: (312) 540-5860
Web Address:http://www.sra-4kids.com/product_ info/math/
Teacher learning Exchange: http://sra4kids.com/tlexchange/
The other series SRA Math : Explorations and applications series review can be seen at the following 2 sites:
www.mathematically correct.com/books5f.htm
www.homeschoolmath.net/curriculum_reviews/sra.php
The SRA program sounds intriguing because they incorporate math journaling,games,and thinking stories.
And the Everyday mathematics series covers math using exercises,games and projects. Including the year long "American tour project" a mathematical survey of American history and geography. This is the 5th grade level I believe. I am looking at 5th grade level in both series.
Just wondering if anyone else has come across these yet.
Thanks,
and sorry I have no idea how to do links. Computer challenged mother here.
God bless,
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Here's a link that has info about Everyday Mathematics, and
here is another link to SRA. I haven't seen either program, so I am of no help.
Jackie, to create a link, click on the icon in your post reply window that looks like a globe with a chain link in front of it. At the first prompt, type the name of the site. At the second prompt, type the address, including the http:// part. If that doesn't make sense, the FAQ thread might help.
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