We have been doing the More Math for More People podcast now for four years. We were recently asked ‘what have we learned?’ over our time on the podcast. I can say that I have learned a lot from the production of this podcast, our listeners, and our guests.
CPM is about more math, but it is also about more people. Since 2008, when I took a summer job through a connection in my CPM precalculus class, I have been surrounded by people passionate about student-centered math classrooms. Five years later, I was working full time at CPM. In the years since, I have worked with many math teachers, and I will say that their passion for education and math is incredible.
Reading in mathematics differs from other disciplines because the main idea is typically posed as a question or problem to solve at the end of the text rather than being introduced as a topic sentence near the beginning. The Three Reads routine, introduced in Routines for Reasoning (Kelemanik et al., 2016), provides a framework to help students comprehend word problems by emphasizing understanding before solving. This approach guides students through three distinct phases with a different purpose for reading in each stage: reading for context, identifying the question, and extracting relevant information.
While content objectives explain what students will learn in a lesson, language objectives clarify how they will reach that goal. They create a language-rich environment to help all learners acquire and use language to communicate mathematical concepts and other ideas.
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This professional learning is designed for teachers as they begin their implementation of CPM. This series contains multiple components and is grounded in multiple active experiences delivered over the first year. This learning experience will encourage teachers to adjust their instructional practices, expand their content knowledge, and challenge their beliefs about teaching and learning. Teachers and leaders will gain first-hand experience with CPM with emphasis on what they will be teaching. Throughout this series educators will experience the mathematics, consider instructional practices, and learn about the classroom environment necessary for a successful implementation of CPM curriculum resources.
Page 2 of the Professional Learning Progression (PDF) describes all of the components of this learning event and the additional support available. Teachers new to a course, but have previously attended Foundations for Implementation, can choose to engage in the course Content Modules in the Professional Learning Portal rather than attending the entire series of learning events again.
