Mathematics
Investigations Curriculum
This curriculum is designed to:
Support students to make sense of mathematics and learn that they can be mathematical thinkers.
Focus on computational fluency with whole numbers as a major goal of the elementary grades.
Provide substantive work in important areas of mathematics- rational numbers, geometry, measurement, data, and early algebra- and connections among them.
Emphasize reasoning about mathematical ideas.
Communicate mathematics content and pedagogy to teachers
Engage the range of learners in understanding mathematics.
Underlying the above goals, are three guiding principles that are the touchstones as we approach students as agents of their own learning.
1. Students have mathematical ideas. The curriculum must support all students in developing and expanding those ideas.
2. Teachers are engaged in ongoing learning about mathematics content and about how students learn mathematics. the curriculum must support teachers in this learning.
3. Teachers collaborate with the students and curriculum materials to create the curriculum as enacted in the classroom. The curriculum must support teachers in implementing the curriculum in a way that accommodates the needs of their particular students.
(Investigations Website 2013)
Investigations Curriculum
This curriculum is designed to:
Support students to make sense of mathematics and learn that they can be mathematical thinkers.
Focus on computational fluency with whole numbers as a major goal of the elementary grades.
Provide substantive work in important areas of mathematics- rational numbers, geometry, measurement, data, and early algebra- and connections among them.
Emphasize reasoning about mathematical ideas.
Communicate mathematics content and pedagogy to teachers
Engage the range of learners in understanding mathematics.
Underlying the above goals, are three guiding principles that are the touchstones as we approach students as agents of their own learning.
1. Students have mathematical ideas. The curriculum must support all students in developing and expanding those ideas.
2. Teachers are engaged in ongoing learning about mathematics content and about how students learn mathematics. the curriculum must support teachers in this learning.
3. Teachers collaborate with the students and curriculum materials to create the curriculum as enacted in the classroom. The curriculum must support teachers in implementing the curriculum in a way that accommodates the needs of their particular students.
(Investigations Website 2013)
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