High School Math—College Preparatory Mathematics
A complete math curriculum includes mastering basic skills and procedures, understanding mathematical principles, and acquiring problem solving strategies. The College Prepatory Mathematics (CPM) program presents mathematical ideas in contexts that help students make sense of otherwise abstract principles. Students are taught how to gather and organize information about problems, break problems into smaller parts, and look for patterns that lead to solutions. Each course is built around several core ideas that are used to develop related topics, skills and procedures. Students master skills and come to understand ideas over several days and weeks. Much of their classroom time is spent doing guided investigations– much like a math lab–that develop ideas in concrete, visual ways. They also apply their learning to realistic problems that require more than merely mimicking examples of rules.
The CPM curriculum, emphasizing core ideas, active student participation in lessons, and consistent practice of ideas over time predates the recommendations drawn from the TIMSS study by five years. CPM has offered approaches to learning mathematics that parallel practices in successful countries since 1989. CPM courses contain the mathematical content required of each course. The materials is presented in ways that actively involve students in developing and understanding ideas. Students improve their study skills and build life-long strategies for solving problems that are applicable in most academic disciplines, the workplace, and daily life.
Parent Resources
- High school math resources and references
- Math Homework Help
Hotmath provides guided solutions for the actual homework problems in the district adopted CPM texts. Click on Foundations for Algebra 2, Algebra 1 or Geometry tabs at the top of the Hotmath home page. Then, select a CPM textbook from the list of books. All Hotmath solutions for all CPM textbooks are available to all users without any subscription requirements, courtesy of the CPM publisher.
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CPM provides a free downloadable study guide that fully supports the student high school texts, complete with explanations, examples and practice problems for each unit in the text. From the home page, click on “Parent Guide.”
