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(12.01.00) Curriculum developed by the Middle-school Mathematics through Applications Project (MMAP) has been designated a Promising Program by the U.S. Department of Education's Expert Panel on Technology. MMAP was 1 of 7 educational technology programs designated exemplary or promising, from among 134 submitted. Recognition of the program's technology design makes it a double winner, having earlier been designated "promising" by a parallel Expert Panel on Mathematics.
MMAP is a comprehensive, technology-rich mathematics program for grades 6–8. Students love it. They take part in extended role-plays to solve real-world problems that introduce the work of architects, population biologists, cryptologists, and cartographers. Kid-friendly software tools let them analyze data and create computer-assisted designs.
Developed with funds from the National Science Foundation, the mathematics emphasis in MMAP is on proportional reasoning and algebra/functions, and includes statistics, probability, measurement, and geometry. Reviewers praised the selection of problems, found the inclusion of extension and investigation modules to be helpful, and cited the mathematics as appropriate and challenging for middle school students.
Reviewers also found MMAP’s instructional design to be creative, flexible, appealing, and motivating both to students and teachers. MMAP's approach to assessment was applauded as one of its strongest features, both for the variety of ways students learn to communicate understanding and in its flexibility in meeting the needs of individual students.
WestEd is the home of the MMAP/Pathways Curriculum Support Center, which provides information and resources to support the adoption and use of MMAP. MMAP is available from Voyager Expanded Learning as Pathways to Algebra and Geometry.For more information, contact Jennifer Knudsen: jknudse@wested.org or 510.302.4273 or visit http://www.wested.org/cs/wew/view/pj/101/.
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