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Student Learning Resources for CPM Math
Whether you're stuck on homework, trying to understand a concept, or looking for extra practice, everything you need is right here. The eTools need no login.
Interactive Tools
Virtual Math eTools
The eTools let you build and move things around on screen instead of just picturing it in your head. No login, no account. Just open one and start.
CPM Tile Tool
Build equations and expressions out of tiles you can drag around. Useful for factoring, multiplying, and completing the square, from middle school all the way through calculus.
Launch Tile Tool
CPM Probability Tool
Flip a coin, roll dice, spin a spinner, draw cards, or pull objects from a bag, hundreds of times in seconds. Change the odds and see what happens.
Launch Probability ToolHow to Use the eTools
Getting the Most from Virtual Math eTools
The eTools aren’t just for following along, you can customize them, build your own models, and use them to check your understanding. Here’s what they can do.
- Construct deeper understanding
- See visual models of concepts
- Connect different representations
- Create and save your own models
- Test probability ideas instantly
- Explore area and perimeter
CPM Tile Tool
Notes & Custom OptionsAdd titles, descriptions, and customize which tools are visible
General ToolsAdd text, pattern tiles, colored dots, and lines to your models
Algebra TilesModel variables, expressions, and equations with moveable tilesAlgebra Tiles TutorialsVideo walkthroughs for modeling algebra concepts with tiles
Area and Perimeter TilesTutorial for building and explaining area and perimeter modelsSee It in Action
Discover and Explore Learning with CPM
Watch this short introduction to see how CPM’s digital tools and resources work together to support your learning, in class, at home, and everywhere in between.
Inside Your eBook
More Ways to Get Unstuck
Your eBook has five things built into it that most students never open. Each one helps with something different: getting unstuck, checking your work, or reviewing before a test. You will need to log in for these.
Independent Practice
Family Support Resources
Checkpoints
Methods & Meanings
Toolkits and Journals
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All of these resources are available inside your student eBook
Log in to myCPM with your school username and password to get Homework Help, Checkpoints, and everything above.
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Math Vocabulary in English and Spanish
Each glossary collects the mathematical terms used in the course, with definitions and worked examples pulled from the text. Download the one for the course and keep it nearby while working through problems. No login required.
Inspiring ConnectionsMiddle School
Inspiring Connections Course 1
Grade 6. Every term in the course, in plain language, with a quick example.
Inspiring Connections Course 2
Grade 7. The words behind proportions, expressions and probability.
Core Connections 3rd EditionMiddle School
Core Connections Course 1
Grade 6. Course vocabulary, defined simply and in order of the chapters.
Core Connections Course 2
Grade 7. Ratios, integers, equations and the terms that come with them.
Core Connections 3rd EditionTraditional High School Pathway
Core Connections Algebra
The vocabulary first-year algebra is built on: variables, functions, equations.
Core Connections 3rd EditionIntegrated High School Pathway
Core Connections Integrated I
Year one of the integrated pathway: algebra, geometry and statistics terms.
Core Connections Integrated II
Year two, building on Integrated I with deeper functions and geometry.
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Quick Reference
Words You Will See
Study team
The 2 to 4 people you work with in class. Everyone has a role, and teams change often so you work with different people.
Review & Preview
Your homework, in Core Connections. It mixes in older topics on purpose, so it will not always match what you did that day.
Reflection & Practice
Same thing as Review & Preview, but in Inspiring Connections.
Checkpoint
A skill check in your book with worked examples and answers. Good for finding out what you actually know before a test does.
Math Notes
The boxes with the definitions and formulas in them. They show up after you have worked with the idea, not before.
Methods & Meanings
The newer name for Math Notes. Same thing.
Toolkit
The notebook you build as you go, with your notes, examples, and diagrams in one place.
Mathematician’s Notebook
The Inspiring Connections version of the Toolkit.
Homework Help
Hints and steps for specific problems, inside your eBook. You need to log in.
Parent Guide
Worked examples for specific problems. In your eBook under Reference, then Student Support. Useful even if nobody at home is helping.
eTools
The drag-and-drop tools on this page. Tiles, spinners, dice, coins. No login needed.
Skill Builders
Extra practice on one topic at a time, sorted Mild, Medium, and Spicy so you can pick your level.
Guided Skill Supports
Extra practice organized by chapter, for Core Connections courses.
Rough Draft Talk
Saying an idea out loud before you are sure it is right. It is supposed to be unfinished.
Team Challenge
A test you take together with your team, usually before the individual test.
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