UNIVERSITY SUPPORT
A Resource for Researchers and Math Teacher Educators
CPM’s 6-12 materials help bridge the gap between the IDEALS of teacher education courses and the REALITIES encountered in classrooms.
Complimentary access to renewable 18-month licenses for:
- NEW! CPM’s newest middle school curriculum, Inspiring Connections
- NEW! CPM’s innovative support course for 8th grade, Inspirations & Ideas
- CPM’s 6–12 Core Connections series
What to Expect from CPM's Newest Curriculum, Inspiring Connections
Teacher editions support teachers to:
- Practice strategic questioning to support students in developing and using their mathematical understandings to grapple with meaningful, rigorous, rich mathematical tasks.
- Create a learning community where students’ identities and cultures are sustained as they grow their identities as mathematicians.
- Foster a class culture in which students take risks and make mistakes as a valued part of the learning process.
- Use strategies that support students in accessing the language and cultural assumptions embedded within mathematics problems.
- Skillfully facilitate discussions around mathematical tasks with contexts that illuminate complex social issues and patterns of inequity in society.
Student editions support students to:
- Successfully grapple with complex mathematical tasks through collaboration with peers and in independent practice.
- Provide and connect verbal, written, and visual explanations for mathematical strategies and concepts.
- Fully participate in linguistically diverse and language-rich classrooms.
- Critically interpret real-world data and data visualizations using interdisciplinary competencies.
- Articulate their mathematical strengths and areas for growth as well as the role of mathematics in their lives.
Teacher editions include:
*New in Inspiring Connections
Student editions include:
CPM’s Commitment to Inclusive Mathematics Curriculum
Diversity in the illustrations:
- Varied gender expression
- Many different races and ethnicities
- Multiple physical abilities and visible aids (e.g., hearing aids, wheelchairs)
- Diverse physical attributes, including weight, height, and hair (e.g., natural styles and dyed hair)
- Various styles of clothing, including cultural clothing
Diversity in the text:
- Names from communities around the world
- Tasks that defy gender stereotypes and include non-binary and gender-nonconforming identities (e.g., gender-neutral titles and pronouns)
- Tasks that center cultures from around the world
- Tasks that showcase real people (e.g., famous athletes)
Ways for Researchers and Math Teacher Educators to Use CPM
In Teacher Education Courses:
- Use materials to support future teachers in learning to facilitate critical conversations in the math classroom.
- Contextualize pedagogy and content.
- Enhance lesson-planning.
- Modify lessons to meet local teaching performance assessment requirements.
- Examine how resources incorporate pedagogical practices.
- Use CPM materials for distance learning.
- Model teaching CPM tasks.
- Use CPM in rubric-based curricular-analysis.
- Jointly select CPM tasks that meet your instructional goals.
- Request print materials for your library’s curriculum collection.
- Use as a edTPA and PPAT planning resource.
Collaborating with CPM Professional Learning:
- Jointly select CPM tasks to meet your instructional goals.
- Utilize CPM presentations in your courses.
- Model with CPM-led lessons (e.g., introduce pre-service teachers to algebra tiles).
- Access professional learning events (both you and your students).
- Consider CPM classrooms as placements for future mathematics teachers.