Algebra 1 Teacher's Edition, CME Project

by Inc. Education Development Center

Algebra 1 textbook for Teachers. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0133500217
• ISBN13: 9780133500219
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Pearson
• Weight: 5.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Perfect middle-ground for any Algebra classroom.

The CME Project was developed out of the Educational Development Center in Newton Massachusetts to provide a curriculum that offers a middle-ground between the traditional and newer reform texts. Too often do the more traditional texts fail to offer rigorous and focused mathematical tasks that challenge studies, but also provide them with a chance to learn. The newer reform texts have been developed with reaching out to all students and providing them with an enriched mathematics education, but they unfortunately alienate too many parents, students, and teachers (those not willing to adapt to something so new and different). Algebra I is set-up like any other high school algebra text, putting focus on all the ideas that are considered essential in an algebra classroom. However, the CME Project approaches each topic with an opening experiment that each student can perform. As investigations continue, the questions become progressively harder. All students will be able to perform the opening explorations, but even the highest achieving students will have problems with questions that come later. Ideas are revisited not to reteach, but to deepen. Topics become more focused, and provide strong connections with previous knowledge and real-life experiences. One unique feature of these texts is the attention to the habits of mind, where developer Al Cuoco wants to make sure that students are not only learning important mathematics, but how mathematicians think and work. Unfortunately the curriculum is relatively new, so there is not a lot of testing data for this series, especially since their Precalculus text just came out in 2009. The text is very student-centric, so teachers unfamiliar with this level of mathematics might have a hard time using it, and some areas might still be considered too difficult. However, these are just minor problems that will hopefully see improvements in future additions.