Some services described in the publication may no longer be available. As a result, students will be able to understand the content and applications, develop techniques for learning them, and use their mathematics to solve problems. Mathematics, as a body of knowledge, requires certain ways of thinking and cannot be done by the exclusive use of memory.
Children learn through interrelated experiences and by reacting to problem situations.
Mathematics is best learned when the applications presented are appropriate to students' levels of understanding and to their natural interests. One of the manifestations of these convictions in the construction of the CSMP curriculum is the spiral approach. The content is completely sequenced in spiral form so that a student is brought into contact with each area of content continuously throughout the program. This approach consciously precludes atomizing the content and mastering each bit before continuing to the next. Students work through repeated exposures to the content, building interlocking experiences of increasing sophistication.