In Kindergarten through grade five math instruction is delivered by the classroom teacher in a heterogeneous setting. In grade 5 the children are grouped heterogeneously in two teams. One teacher on each team delivers math instruction to their team. 

In grades 6, 7, and 8 math instruction is departmentalized. In 7th and 8th grade students are homogeneously grouped for Pre-Algebra and Algebra I. The students who meet the criteria are offered Pre-Algebra as their seventh grade math program and Algebra I as their eighth grade program.

Everyday Mathematics, Grade K-5

Program Highlights

Some of the key features of the Everyday Mathematics program include:

• Problem solving for everyday situations
• Developing readiness through hands-on activities
• Establishing links between past experiences and explorations of new concepts
• Sharing ideas through discussion
• Cooperative learning through partner and small-group activities
• Practice through games and repetition
• Ongoing review throughout the year
• Daily routines
• Ongoing assessment
• Home and school partnership

Kindergarten

First Grade

Second Grade

Third Grade

Fourth Grade

Fifth Grade

Mathematical Content for Kindergarten - Everyday Mathematics
Everyday Mathematics covers a broad range of mathematical content, not just numbers and arithmetic.  Kindergarten Everyday Mathematics content emphasizes the following content strands, skills and concepts:

Ongoing Daily Routines

Seven activities designated as "Ongoing Daily Routines" launch the program with procedures that integrate mathematics into children's daily life in the classroom.

Numeration

Count, read, and write numbers past 100 and oral counting past 115; explore term "digits" to develop concept of place value; discuss, read, and write "the tricky teens"; counting on from numbers other than 1; counting backward; skip counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s; daily counting activities throughout the year; tracking counts with calculators; experiences with rational counting (counting things).

Operations and Computation

Using operations and relations in solving concrete problems from everyday life; make up and act out number stories; explore the inverse operations of addition and subtraction as "doing" and "undoing"; using relation vocabulary appropriately such as bigger, smaller, more, less, the same, fewer, over, under, higher, lower, on the same level, equal, equivalent.

Data and Chance

Collecting, organizing, and displaying data using concrete objects, charts, and graphs.

Geometry

Tracing, drawing, constructing, and playing with simple shapes; analyze parts of shapes and relationships among sizes and shapes.

Measurement and Reference Frames

Introduce length, weight, volume or capacity, and elapsed time through matching and comparison activities; using appropriate tools to measure and label various units with U.S. customary and metric systems; drawing, comparing, and recording results; introduce money as a tool to explore place value, fractions, equivalence, and decimal system; explore characteristics and values of bills and coins; use money incidentally; develop understanding of time and terms such as days, weeks, years, hours, minutes, and seconds; keep track of time on calendars, clocks, and number lines; develop sense of and record sequential order and time.

Patterns and Function

Sorting and categorizing collections; exploring functions through "What's My Rule?" games; counting by 1s, 2s, 5s, 10s, and so on.

Mathematical Content for First Grade - Everyday Mathematics
Everyday Mathematics covers a broad range of mathematical content, not just numbers and arithmetic.  First Grade Everyday Mathematics content emphasizes the following content strands, skills and concepts:

Numeration

Counting; reading and writing numbers; investigating place-value of whole numbers; exploring fractions and money.

Operations and Computation

Learning addition and subtraction facts, fact families, and extended facts; beginning informal work with properties of numbers and problem solving.

Data and Chance

Collecting; organizing, and displaying data using tables, charts, and graphs; exploring concepts of chance.

Geometry

Exploring 2- and 3-dimensional shapes.

Measurement and Reference Frames

Using tools to measure length, capacity, and weight; using clocks, calendars, timelines, thermometers, and ordinal numbers.

Patterns, Functions, and Algebra

Exploring attributes, patterns, sequences, relations, and function; finding missing numbers and rules in Frames-and-Arrows and "What's My Rule?" problems; studying properties of operations.

Mathematical Content for Second Grade - Everyday Mathematics

Everyday Mathematics covers a broad range of mathematical content, not just numbers and arithmetic.  Second Grade Everyday Mathematics content emphasizes the following content strands, skills and concepts:

Numeration

Counting; reading and writing numbers; identifying place-value; comparing  numbers; working with fractions; using money and decimal concepts.

Operations and Computation

Recalling addition and subtraction facts; exploring fact families; adding and subtracting with tens and hundreds; beginning multiplication and division; exchanging money amounts.

Data and Chance

Collecting, organizing, and interpreting data using tables, charts, and graphs; exploring concepts of chance.

Geometry

Exploring 2- and 3- dimensional shapes; classifying polygons.

Measurement and Reference Frames

Using tools to measure length, capacity, weight, and volume; using U.S. customary and metric measurement units.

Patterns, Functions, and Algebra

Exploring number patterns, rules for number sequences, relations between numbers, and attributes.

Mathematical Content for Third Grade - Everyday Mathematics

Everyday Mathematics covers a broad range of mathematical content, in addition to numbers and arithmetic.  Third Grade Everyday Mathematics content emphasizes the following content strands, skills and concepts:

Numeration

Counting patterns; place-value; reading and writing whole numbers through 1,000,000; fractions, decimals, and integers.

Operations and Computation

Multiplication and division facts extended to multi-digit problems; working with properties; operations with fractions and money.

Data and Chance

Collecting, organizing, and displaying data using tables, charts, and graphs; exploring concepts of chance.

Geometry

Exploring 2- and 3-dimensional shapes and other geometric concepts.

Measurement and Reference Frames

Recording equivalent units of length; recognizing appropriate units of measure for various items; finding the areas of rectangles; using multiplication arrays, coordinate grids, thermometers, and map scales to estimate distances.

Patterns, Functions, and Algebra

Finding patterns on the number grid; solving Frames-and-Arrows puzzles having two rules; completing variations of "What's My Rule?" activities; exploring the relationship between multiplication and division; using parentheses in writing number models; naming missing parts of number models.

Mathematical Content for Fourth Grade - Everyday Mathematics

Everyday Mathematics covers a broad range of mathematical content, not just numbers and arithmetic.  Fourth Grade Everyday Mathematics content emphasizes the following content strands, skills and concepts:

Numeration

Reading, writing, and comparing whole numbers through 1,000,000 decimals through the thousandths, negative numbers to -20, and fractions; understanding relations between fractions, decimals and percents; locating fractions and mixed numbers on a number line; generating equivalent fractions.

Operations and Computation

Using paper-and-pencil algorithms to add, subtract, multiply, and divide multi-digit whole numbers and decimals; using mental arithmetic both to compute exact answers and to estimate; rounding from millions to hundredths; modeling multiplication with arrays and area; doing operations with fractions.

Data and Chance

Creating, reading, and interpreting graphs; identifying landmarks in data sets, including range, median, mode, and mean; listing all possible outcomes in simple situations; using fractions to quantify probabilities; using experimental results to make predictions.

Geometry

Locating points on a coordinate grid; drawing and measuring angles; classifying angles as acute, obtuse, and right; classifying lines as parallel, intersecting, and perpendicular; recognizing and using transformations, including reflections and rotations; understanding the relationship between reflections and the line symmetry; building 3-dimensional shapes; describing, comparing, and analyzing 2- and 3-dimensional figures.

Measurement and Reference Frames

Using tools to measure length, area, volume, weight, temperature, and time; developing personal references for inches, centimeters, feet, meters, and yards; estimating lengths and weights; finding areas and perimeters of rectangles, parallelograms, and triangles; finding volumes of rectangular prisms by counting cubic units; calculating elapsed time; using correct units in all measurements; calculating distances using map scales.

Patterns, Functions and Algebra

Using letters and other symbols for unknowns; simplifying expressions containing parentheses; creating, extending, and describing patterns; using formulas for finding the areas of simple geometric figures; determining rules that relate numbers in pairs; finding missing numbers in tables; translating among verbal, numerical, and graphical representations; understanding and writing models for number stories.

Mathematical Content for Fifth Grade - Everyday Mathematics

Everyday Mathematics covers a broad range of mathematical content, not just numbers and arithmetic.  Fifth Grade Everyday Mathematics content emphasizes the following content strands, skills and concepts:

Numeration

Reading, writing, and comparing negative numbers, fractions, whole numbers through billions, and decimals through thousandths; reading writing, and interpreting whole number powers of 10; translating between exponential and standard notation; understanding and identifying prime numbers, composite numbers, and square numbers.

Operations and Computation

Using paper-and-pencil algorithms to add, subtract, multiply, and divide multi-digit whole numbers and decimals; using mental arithmetic both to compute exact answers and to estimate; rounding from billions to hundredths; translating among fractions, decimals; and percents; prime factoring; converting between fractions and mixed numbers; adding and subtracting fractions and mixed numbers with unlike denominators; finding least common multiples and great common factors; multiplying and dividing fractions.

Data and Chance

Comparing probabilities for different outcomes; comparing theoretical and experimental probabilities; expressing probabilities as fractions, decimals, and percents; drawing justifiable conclusions from data; displaying data in more than one way; formulating a question, carrying out a survey or experiment, recording data, and communicating results; drawing and interpreting circle graphs and stem-and-leaf plots; understanding measures of central tendency (mean, median, mode).

Geometry

Constructing a circle with a given radius or diameter; defining and creating tessellations; measuring and drawing angles, including reflex and straight angles; identifying and defining right, isosceles, and equilateral triangles; plotting points in four quadrants; using translations, reflections, and rotations; solving perimeter, areas, and volume problems; understanding the relationship between the volumes of cones/pyramids and cylinders/prisms; finding the surface area of a cube and the areas of a circle; identifying angle relationships in triangles and quadrilaterals.

Measurement and Reference Frames

Measuring and estimating length, area, volume, weight, and capacity; converting and computing with common units of measure; creating scale drawings.

Patterns, Functions, and Algebra

Evaluating simple algebraic expressions; finding rules for patterns; finding rules for patterns; finding the nth term in a sequence; solving simple open number sentences and simple rate problems; working with equations by doing the same thing to both sides; understanding simple direct proportion; using variables and equations to represent situations; graphing ordered pairs; translating among verbal, numerical, and graphical representations.