Mathematics Program

Competent Teachers

Teachers reflect on teaching and learning and adjust instruction to students' needs. Teachers share teaching strategies during weekly grade level meetings. A certified math interventionist is on staff and pushes into classrooms to work with small groups to better apply and understand strategies for solving problems. 

Research Based Curriculum

• All instruction is aligned to South Carolina Math Standards and National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) standards. As they are implemented yearly, instruction will also coincide with Common Core State Standards.
• Spiraling of instruction for constant review and connections to previous learning helps students strengthen and master skills.
• Students gain mathematical knowledge through tactile (hands-on) learning, as well as analytic (paper and pencil) learning.
• Math instruction is integrated across the curriculum (language arts, science, and social studies).
• Real life problems and connections give math real meaning for life.
• A variety of assessments are used to guide instruction and analyze student growth.
• Technology is incorporated into teaching and learning.
• Focus on the Mathematical Process Standards.
  1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.

1. 1. Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
   2. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
   3. Model with mathematics.
   4. Use appropriate tools strategically.
   5. Attend to precision.
   6. Look for and make use of structure.
   7. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

Materials

Manipulatives are available to teach all strands of math (number and operations, algebra, measurement, geometry, and data analysis and probability) from counting bears, to decimal squares, to Hands-on Equations.

Basic facts are reinforced and enriched Web-Based Practice and Incentives.
We have a growing library of Math Literature that connects reading and math.
Technology is utilized in classrooms and the computer lab through Promethean software, I-Pads, Google Chromebooks and laptops. 

Test Practices in the Classroom

• Focus on increasing fast fact fluency (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division).
• Problem Solving - Math is presented as real-life problems and challenges.
• Assessments are spiraled so students are always reminded of previous concepts and skills.
• Assessments are aligned to South Carolina Standards.
• Focus on the Mathematical Process Standards.
• Students use math journals to write about their math thinking (metacognition).