How was the Scott Foresman-Addison Wesley Mathematics series chosen?
Six different math textbook series were examined and reviewed by a school district math committee. This committee was comprised of administrators with math backgrounds and classroom teachers who represented each grade level. The committee spent numerous hours exploring each series to determine which textbooks would most meet the needs of Penn-Trafford students. Each of the examined series contained a standards-based curricular focus as determined by the state of Pennsylvania and the federal government. The Scott Foresman-Addison Wesley series was chosen due to its mixture of traditional and contemporary approaches to math instruction. The series is research-based and ensures that all children will learn the basic math skills and the higher level thinking skills and concepts they will need in order to attain academic success. How are the skills taught and reinforced? What is “spiraling”? This particular math program “spirals” skills. Spiraling simply means that each mathematic skill is
