Lessons are grounded in everyday situations, so abstractions build on experience.
Students' skills, procedures, and concepts emerge and develop as they solve complex problems. The curriculum introduces challenging content at every grade level, including computation, measurement, data collection, statistics, geometry, ratio, probability, graphing, simple algebra, estimation, mental arithmetic, and patterns and relationships. A central tenet of Math Trailblazers is that real problems are naturally interdisciplinary. Accordingly, the curriculum integrates mathematics with many disciplines, especially science and language arts. Scientific investigations embedded in many units use the TIMS Laboratory Method, an organized method of investigation appropriate for elementary school children to use.