Illustrative Math 
​Room 8 will use Illustrative Math curriculum and follow the Common Core Standards. Our daily math lessons use a CGI (Cognitively Guided Instruction) approach which focuses on each student's development of a deeper understanding of both how problems are solved and why various methods work.

Mathematical Practices
Throughout the year, students will be expected to demonstrate the following mathematical practices:

1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
2. ​Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
4. Model with mathematics.
5. Use appropriate tools strategically.
6. Attend to precision.
7. Look for and make use of structure.
8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

Mathematical practices help to develop mathematicians that ask better questions and pick apart word problems in multiple ways. 

Link to the California Math Standards.