At its June 13 meeting, the SCASD Board of Directors unanimously approved the purchase of Math Expressions as the District’s core elementary math resource. This vote marked the end of a year-long review of elementary programs and signals the end of the use of TERC’s Investigations as the core resource.
Today’s CDT has an article describing the conclusion of the math program change.
The SCASD report on the pilot testing that concluded this spring is available on the District website.
A key motivation for the change was Pennsylvania’s adoption of the Common Core standards. SCASD’s review found that Investigations did not match up well at all with the new standards: About 50% agreement as compared to about 85% for Math Expressions.
