The ARC Center promotes the wide-scale and effective implementation of reform elementary mathematics curricula. The Center consults with schools and districts and provides information and resources to support teacher enhancement, leadership development, and public awareness of mathematics reform. The seventh grade program includes four modules in the bio-related technologies and modules related to manufacturing and forecasting. The eighth grade program includes four modules entitled Animal Habitats, Human Settlements, Systems, and Communication Systems. In each of four courses, students explore topics from geometry, measurement, algebra, probability, statistics, numeration, number theory, computation, and estimation.
Mathematical ideas resurface regularly.
Technology is used appropriately. IV is in progress. Models and manipulatives provide the context for explorations of complex problems involving important mathematical relationships. Group discussions and projects create a community in which each member's ideas are valued and respected. In this community of mathematicians, students enjoy a growing ability to construct their own understanding and to communicate their reasoning.