Math - Mastery Charter School

Math at Mastery

All students have opportunities to joyfully construct meaning, engage with the thinking of others and productively struggle. Students feel empowered to succeed in math and explore the beauty of its logic.

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Math Teachers Across 24 Schools

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Math Teacher Leaders to support Math Teachers

Math Courses At-a-Glance

The 90-minute block structure ensures fidelity to Eureka Math: A Story of Units, while providing routine time for responsive instruction to meet all students’ needs. Students learn grade-level content, as defined by the CCSS, by engaging in aligned fluency routines, high-quality tasks, problem sets, class discussions, and mathematical models to explore mathematical concepts and skills. Ongoing facilitated discussions offer students the opportunity to learn from their peers’ thinking. Students solidify their learning through extended application, practice of the mathematics and the lesson debrief.

The 90-minute block ensures fidelity to Eureka Math: A Story of Ratios while providing routine time for responsive instruction to meet all students’ needs. Students engage in math from the moment they enter the classroom and experience purposefully selected and highly engaging activities that promote rich discussion, fluency, and a positive mindset about math learning. Students learn grade-level content by engaging in objective-driven Classwork consisting of high quality tasks, problem sets, class discussions, and mathematical modeling and exploratory challenges. Ongoing facilitated discussions offer students the opportunity to learn from their peers’ thinking, reflect on their own learning and demonstrate understanding on daily formative assessments.

Foundations Math is a course adapted from Eureka Math designed for students who are below in grade level to provide a remediation course that covers major work of the grade and addresses foundational and prerequisite skills. The 90-minute block ensures fidelity to Eureka Math while providing routine time for foundational skill instruction to meet all students’ needs. Students engage in math from the moment they enter the classroom and experience purposefully selected and highly engaging activities that promote rich discussion, fluency, and a positive mindset about math learning. Students learn grade-level content by engaging in objective-driven Concept Development/Classwork consisting of high-quality tasks, problem sets, class discussions, and mathematical modeling and exploratory challenges. Ongoing facilitated discussions offer students the opportunity to learn from their peers’ thinking, reflect on their own learning and demonstrate understanding on daily formative assessments.

This 45-min block structure ensures fidelity to Agile Mind high school math programs (CCSS Algebra I, CCSS Geometry, CCSS Algebra II and Precalculus) which form a coherent and rigorous Common Core-aligned curriculum. On a daily basis, students engage in math from the moment they enter the classroom and experience purposefully selected and highly engaging activities that promote rich discussion, fluency, and a positive mindset about math learning.  Students learn grade-level content by engaging in objective-driven classwork, consisting of deep concept development driven through animations, modeling and robust real-world problems. Ongoing facilitated discussions offer students the opportunity to learn from their peers’ thinking, reflect on their own learning and demonstrate understanding on daily formative assessments.

This 90-min block structure ensures fidelity to Agile Mind Intensified Algebra I, which is a rigorous Common Core-aligned curriculum for students with a pattern of unfinished learning. Students learn high school Algebra I content, as defined by the CCSS, while simultaneously addressing unfinished middle school learning by engaging in concept development driven by animations, modeling, and real-world tasks, along with strategically sequenced prerequisite lessons and daily spiraled practice (Staying Sharp). Students learn from their peers’ thinking through collaboration and facilitated discussion in the Opener and Core activity, and solidify their learning through extended application and practice of the concept in the Consolidation activity and daily Homework (including Staying Sharp). A daily Homework processing protocol occurs between Core and Consolidation, promoting communication and reflection on mathematical thinking and ownership of learning.

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