Riley Lark over at Point of Inflection has been trying out CPM. He mostly loves it (except of course where he doesn’t). Check out his perspectives in these 3 posts.
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As we have talked about before, CPM does a pretty good job at trying to make math relevant to students. I particularly liked this third post. I think sometimes we need to remember that our students are still kids, meaning they are not yet adults and do not yet do adult things (like open bank accounts or work in the field of engineering). So sometimes, while adult “real-life” examples are so relevant to the math we are teaching, our students only need what is relevant to their lives right here and now. And when this happens, sometimes making the math relevant to them does in fact include toys of their childhood.
I agree with Marisa that I enjoyed the third post best. However, I did find it funny that the first post listed is Riley bragging up CPM and wanting to get the materials, then in the second post listed Riley has the books and on the first lesson has to adapt the materials. Back to the third post, I don’t feel it’s always about making it relevant in their lives, but showing the students that this is actually used and some of them may actually use this someday. However, if you can make the material relevant to where the students are at now the students will be more engaged. I personally really enjoyed the CPM presentation and feel that CPM fits my style of teaching as I like lots of activities. I realize that I will still have to make the curriculum my own like Riley had to in the second post listed.
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