At TVCS, we use a combination of math curriculum and tools to meet each student's learning needs at their individual learning level to get them as close as possible to mastering all of the common core standards in math.

Our primary math curriculum in 5th grade is The Investigations curriculum and in 6th grade we transition to use the CPM (College Preparatory Mathematics) Curriculum

Investigations Mathematics

Six major goals guided the development of Investigations. The curriculum is designed to:

• Support students to make sense of mathematics and learn that they can be mathematical thinkers
• Focus on computational fluency with whole numbers as a major goal of the elementary grades
• Provide substantive work in important areas of mathematics rational numbers, geometry, measurement, data, and early algebra and connections among them
• Emphasize reasoning about mathematical ideas
• Communicate mathematics content and pedagogy to teachers
• Engage the range of learners in understanding mathematics.

Underlying these goals are three guiding principles that are our touchstones as we approach both students and teachers as agents of their own learning:

• 1. Students have mathematical ideas. The curriculum must support all students in developing and expanding those ideas.
• 2. Teachers are engaged in ongoing learning about mathematics content and about how students learn mathematics. The curriculum must support teachers in this learning.
• 3. Teachers collaborate with the students and curriculum materials to create the curriculum as enacted in the classroom. The curriculum must support teachers in implementing the curriculum in a way that accommodates the needs of their particular students.