Room A208

Syllabus

Course: Connected Mathematics Project

Teacher: Mr. John Cioffi

Telephone: 527- 0565

Email: cioffij@stacs.org;

Program/Textbook: CMP © 2002, 2006

Course Description: CMP is a course designed to further explore numeric concepts, both rational and irrational and to introduce algebraic and geometric concepts into one course by showing how they can be related. This course allows

students to study topics in whole numbers, decimals, fractions, percents, probability, statistics, measurement, geometry, and algebra. The authors of CMP describe it as a program with a curriculum that is “devoted to developing student knowledge and understanding of mathematics that is rich in connections – connections among core ideas in mathematics, connections between mathematics and its applications in other school subjects, connections between the planned teaching/learning activities and the special aptitudes and interests of middle school students, connections among the mathematics strands of a modern elementary and secondary school program, and connections with the applications of mathematical ideas in the world outside school.” CMP.

Application: Students solve problems that allow them to observe patterns and relationships. They conjecture, test, discuss, verbalize, and generalize these patterns and relationships. This calls for an instructional model in the classroom “that encourages higher level thinking and problem solving and that has, at its core, making sense of mathematics and its uses.” CMP.

Students will receive one of the modules that will be covered this year at the start of every unit. These text modules will be placed at the beginning of each student’s standard three-ring binder. In this level of the program students will cover the following modules and corresponding topics:

Outside Resources

Snapgrades - The online grade book that I will be using.