Mathematics Services

Math Success. Gateway to Student Success.

Across America, schools are struggling to meet AYP goals, often because of lagging scores in math. Middle school mathematics and algebra have been identified as key areas of concern. Simply put, algebra is a gatekeeper to graduation and higher education. Making sure that students are successful with algebra requires strong content and pedagogy training for all teachers of math at all levels.

Designed with the Concord Consortium as part of the U.S. Department of Education-funded Seeing Math project, Teachscape aims to deepen teachers' understanding of both math content and pedagogy. Additionally, the Program of Study teaches teachers the key principles of algebra, beginning as early as fourth grade, so that all students are prepared for algebraic thinking and computation during middle school and early high school.

Mathematics Services
Programs of Study	Audience	Grades
Big Ideas in Elementary Math: Division with Remainders This Program of Study is designed to prepare instructional leaders to address the professional learning needs of teachers of mathematics in grades 3-5. This professional development program integrates Teachscape's professional learning methodology with a rich array of online learning resources, professional readings, classroom-based activities, and ongoing assessment to inform and focus professional learning designed to build pedagogical content knowledge, improve teaching practice, and raise achievement by understanding and applying the key concepts of division and linking this with other areas of mathematics.	Administrators Teachers	3-5
The Algebra Series: Elementary Coming soon!	Administrators Teachers	4-6
The Algebra Series: Strengthening Middle School Algebraic Concepts and Skills This Program of Study is designed to prepare instructional leaders to address the professional learning needs of teachers of mathematics in the middle grades. This professional development program integrates Teachscape's professional learning methodology with a rich array of online learning resources, professional readings, classroom-based activities, and ongoing assessment to inform and focus professional learning designed to build pedagogical content knowledge, improve teaching practice, and raise achievement in understanding and applying the key concept of proportional reasoning in mathematics.	Administrators Teachers	5-7
The Algebra Series: Proportional Reason in High School Proportional reasoning is the ability to understand and compare quantities and the relationship between quantities. It is used to solve problems that involve, among others, ratio, scale, motion and speed, enlargement/reduction, percent, similarity, interest, and proportion and to determine relationships among circumference, radius, and diameter and between perimeter and area. Perhaps most importantly, proportional reasoning helps scaffold understanding that a mathematical object can have more than one legitimate interpretation and that one can shift among meanings according to context. All these require quantitative and qualitative thinking.	Administrators Teachers	7-10
Institutes	Audience	Grades
Questioning and Assessment in Math In mathematics, errors provide a critical key to understanding and informing student thinking. In this Institute, teachers and leaders are offered strategies to improve mathematics practice through the effective use of questioning and ongoing assessment to identify and understand the impact of student errors on achievement.	Administrators	K-12
Online Resources Licensing	Audience	Grades
Teachscape Online Studies: The Mathematics Series	Administrators Teachers	K-12