Each unit of the program includes investigations, problems, and exercises that are interrelated. Materials emphasize the development of skills such as problem solving, communication, reasoning, mathematical connections, estimation, measurement, statistics, probability, fractions and decimals. Students use technology to create and analyze solutions to real-world problems, increase their conceptual understanding of mathematics, and develop competence with standard symbolic notations for mathematical concepts and an ability to organize their mathematical work in a way that communicates their ideas. Number Power is a supplemental program for grades K-6 focused on developing number sense and social interaction skills in cooperative settings. Students engage in cooperative group work as they learn to make sense of numbers and their relationships, explore numbers as quantities, make judgments about the reasonableness of numbers and solutions, and build understanding about the effects of operations on numbers.
Students explore concepts in different situations over a period of time.
They learn to estimate, analyze data, use mental computation, devise their own computation and problem-solving strategies, and gain proficiency in accurate computation. All courses place continual emphasis on applications to the real world and to solving problems. The curriculum is designed to revitalize mathematics curriculum, improve student achievement, and increase the number of students who take mathematics beyond algebra and geometry.