Program Goals

1 Engage students in active, personalized learning: CMP3 takes inquiry-based learning to the next level. Purposefully designed print and digital tools engage students while driving conceptual understanding, procedural skill, and real-world applications.

2 Teach the Common Core, teach with greater ease: CMP3 aligns to the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics and prepares students for college and careers. Technology applications help you manage your classroom with fidelity, maximize instructional time, and capture needed student data.

3 Apply a research-proven instructional approach: CMP3 offers the most comprehensive research base of any middle school mathematics program. Research and evaluation reports are available at ConnectedMathematics3.com.

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Program Philosophy and Considerations

Schools implementing a new mathematics curriculum should consider the instructional shifts for the Common Core set forth by EngageNY. CMP3 meets and incorporates these six shifts in its instructional philosophy as follows:

Shift 1: FocusClassroom instruction in CMP3 focuses deeply on inquiry and investigation of mathematical concepts prioritized in the standards, which are embedded in rich problem situations. Underlying concepts, skills, or procedures supporting the development of a key idea are identified and included in an appropriate development sequence.

Shift 2: CoherenceCMP3 is an effective curriculum because it has coherence – it builds and connects from investigation to investigation, unit-to-unit, and grade-to-grade, allowing students to build new understanding onto foundations built in previous years.

Shift 3: FluencyMathematical tasks for students in class and in homework are the primary vehicle for student engagement with mathematical concepts to be learned in CMP3. Core functions are taught for speed and accuracy.

Shift 4: Deep UnderstandingIdeas in CMP3 are explored through mathematical tasks in the depth necessary to allow students to make sense of them. Superficial treatment of ideas produces shallow and short-lived understanding – to the contrary, CMP3 students are supported in making connections among ideas, ensuring they truly learn the math instead of leaning on shortcuts and formulas.

Shift 5: ApplicationCMP3 helps students grow in their ability to reason effectively with information represented in graphic, numeric, symbolic, and verbal forms and to move flexibly among these representations. Because the curriculum is truly problem-centered, students learn to choose appropriate applications even without prompting.

Shift 6: Dual IntensityCMP3 provides ample opportunities for practice and understanding. Key mathematical goals are elaborated, exemplified, connected, and met through the problems in each investigation.

Development Notes

Curriculum development for CMP3 has been guided by an important mathematical idea: All students should be able to reason and communicate proficiently in mathematics. They should have knowledge of and skill in the use of the vocabulary, forms of representation, materials, tools, techniques, and intellectual methods of mathematics. This includes the ability to define and solve problems with reason, insight, inventiveness, and technical proficiency.

The National Science Foundation funded the Connected Mathematics Project (CMP) at Michigan State University between 1991 and 1997. The result was Connected Mathematics, a complete mathematics curriculum for Grades 6, 7, and 8. CMP helps students develop an understanding of important concepts, skills, and ways of thinking and reasoning – in number, geometry, measurement, algebra, probability, and statistics. In 2000, the National Science Foundation funded a revision of the Connected Mathematics materials, CMP2, to take advantage of findings during six years of classroom use.

In 2012, the same authorship team created the next generation of the Connected Mathematics Project – CMP3. This new curriculum aligns the program’s existing rigor and emphasis on constructing viable arguments to the Common Core Standards. CMP3 enhances its problem-based, interactive curriculum with digital instructional tools and content. The trusted authorship team remains the same. The pedagogy and approach to teaching and learning math are preserved and enhanced. And now there are powerful digital tools that allow teachers to manage their classrooms and deliver content in a revolutionary way.

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CCSS Strengths and Supports

Connected Mathematics 3 embraces the essence of the Common Core State Standards at a deep and organic level. Given its instructional philosophy – the emphasis on inquiry and applications – CMP3 fully addresses the Common Core State Standards for Mathematical Practice. Throughout the program, students focus on problem-solving strategies, habits of mind, and mathematical proficiency. CMP3 students learn to communicate their reasoning by constructing viable arguments, offering proofs, and using representations. These approaches, which are aligned with the Standards for Mathematical Practice, are explicitly woven within the content of the curriculum and connected to the Common Core Content Standards.

A Common Core SequenceThe sequence of content and skills in Pearson’s Connected Mathematics 3 follows the sequence of the CCSS. The CMP3 curriculum addresses all of the content and skills of the CCSS and contributes significantly to advancing students’ mathematical proficiency as described in the Mathematical Practices of the CCSS. Through the in-depth exploration of concepts, students become confident in solving a variety of problems with flexibility, skill, and insightfulness – and are able to communicate their reasoning and understanding in a variety of ways.

Vertical AlignmentThe Common Core State Standards promote a more conceptual and analytical approach to the study of mathematics. CMP3 follows this approach. As students begin their study of mathematics in the middle years, they have completed their study of the four arithmetic operations with whole numbers and decimals and will complete their study of the four operations with fractions in Grade 6. The focus now turns to the development of algebraic concepts and skills, which grows from students’ understanding of arithmetic operations. Students will apply their knowledge of place value, properties of operations, and the inverse relationships between operations (addition and subtraction; multiplication and division) to explore and evaluate algebraic expressions. As they did with arithmetic expressions, students will interpret and analyze parts of the expression and explore the relationships among the parts of the expressions to build not just procedural fluency, but conceptual understanding and strategic competence. This analytic focus helps students to look more fully at the equations and expressions so that they begin to see patterns in the structure. These patterns will be useful when students explore more complex algebraic concepts in high school.

Incorporating the Standards for Mathematical PracticeThe Common Core State Standards (CCSS) articulate Standards for Mathematical Practice that have been central to the development of the Connected Mathematics Project (CMP) materials from their inception. The investigations in CMP3 are set in mathematical situations that give students opportunities to develop mathematical proficiency in these mathematical practices. Even more, the CMP3 materials help students build deep understanding of important math concepts and to make connections among these important concepts.

Overview of Program Components (Grades 6, 7, 8)

CMP3 is reengineered with digital resources that motivate students and make teachers more productive. (These resource can be used on their own, or in conjunction with print CMP3 materials).

• Teacher Place was created to make planning, teaching, and classroom management a whole lot easier. The online teacher dashboard, powered by Dash, allows users to interact with instructional content in a flexible, personalized way.

• Teachability is a new community on Teacher Place. It lets CMP3 teachers collaborate with other CMP3 instructors. Teachers can share ideas, ask questions, offer tips, and share helpful strategies to improve student achievement.

• Student Place, featuring ACTIVe-book, is where CMP3 students access their online math content, graded homework, and teacher comments. It gives students (and their parents) anytime-anywhere access for a personalized learning experience.

• MathXL® is now part of CMP3. This online powerhouse provides personalized skills practice. A Pre-Test automatically determines the level of instruction.

Detailed list of components:• ACTIVe-book digital Student Edition

• Print Student Editions (booklets, English, Spanish)

• Interactive digital Teacher’s Guides with additional point-of-use teaching resources

• Print Teacher’s Guides

• Program Implementation and Overview Guide

• Digital QuickStart Guide

• Program Resources package (print, digital)

• Online Teacher Community powered by Teachability.com

• Assessments CD powered by ExamView®

• Teacher Resource DVD

• Manipulatives Kits

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Student Place

Practice and apply with interactive ACTIVe-book.

Learn at your pace with adaptive MathXL®

Assignments.

Practice and apply with interactive ACTIVe-book.

Teacher Place

Group Students with drag-and- drop ease.

Access the Teacher's Guides from any computing platform.

Instantly access a Student Profile. Add notes!

Join the Online Community of

CMP3 teachers.