In the math department I work in we use CPM (College Predatory Mathematics). We use the book and relate the standards to each chapter. As a department we felt that the book does a great job of spiraling the material and relating the standards to the curriculum was the best way to implement standard based testing. In my math program we have a hand full of resources. We have math tiles, multiple class sets of graphing calculators, and access to ipads. All these tools are used on a daily bases to implement the material and concepts from the book.
My math department does not use the district or its resources to teach or implement math concepts in the classroom.
As a math department we take time to walk students through the CPM website at the beginning of the year. The purpose of this is to show students that their is other forms of information that can help them practice the material they are learning in class. The book website also has a large amount of supplemental information that our department adds in to help students understand the material. There are a few other virtual materials my math department uses and that is teacher blogs. On these blogs the teachers lay out the material covered in class and class projects.
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