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Middle School Academy
The Connected Mathematics Project (CMP) curriculum for grade 7 is a complete mathematics curriculum that helps students develop their understanding of important concepts, skills, procedures, and ways of thinking and reasoning in number, geometry, measurement, algebra, probability, and statistics.
CMP is problem-centered. As students work on engaging word problems individually, in groups, or with the class, they develop their understanding of important mathematical concepts and reasoning skills.
Eighth grade students begin Year One of the Interactive Math Program (IMP) high school curriculum. This gives strong math students the ability to do advanced math by their junior and senior years in high school. For students whose math skills are less solid, the extra year of practice in the Year One curriculum allows them to build their confidence and a stronger math foundation before they enter high school.
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Junior and Senior Academy
The Interactive Mathematics Program (IMP) curriculum integrates traditional material (algebra, geometry and trigonometry) with additional topics recommended by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Standards, such as statistics, probability, curve fitting, and matrix algebra. IMP units are generally structured around a complex central problem. Although each unit has a specific mathematical focus, other topics are brought in as needed to solve the central problem, rather than narrowly restricting the mathematical content. Ideas that are developed in one unit are usually revisited and deepened in one or more later units.
The IMP curriculum has been thoroughly field-tested and enthusiastically received by hundreds of classroom teachers around the country. Their enthusiasm is based on the success they have seen in their own classrooms with their own students. These informal observations are backed by more formal evaluations.
Examples of units include:
- The Game of Pig where students study probability at a basic level, including the two main types of probability: theoretical and experimental probability. We look at what constitutes a strategy and how to analyze strategy to determine its probability of success
- The Overland Trail uses the historical period of the westward movement in the nineteenth century as a background theme to study how algebra was used in making decisions about the journey. This involves creating different algebraic expressions, analyzing their meaning, and applying the Substitution and Evaluation method to compute numerical answers.
- The Pit and the Pendulum, in which we determine whether Poe’s protagonist realistically had enough time to escape a 30 foot pendulum that was descending upon him. We study the concepts of normal distribution and standard deviation, and different functions/graphs such as parabolas, radicals, and linear functions.
- Solve It focuses on using equations to represent real-life situations and developing skills to solve these equations. In order to solve these equations, students explore the concepts of equivalent expressions and equivalent equations as well as developing the distributive property.
- Students work on their ability to read complex, unstructured problems and develop equations to represent them. Students also review a broad range of algebraic and geometric problems that are required for ACT and PSAE examinations.
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