My school district seems to have adopted the CPM math curriculum for all grades 6-10 (pre algebra through geometry) except for the one High academic high school that has high admission standards. This curriculum comes in paperback books and seems to be totally based around group thinking and group work. I have a child with Asperger’s in the 8th grade and in algebra 1. She was in a CPM math class for 6 weeks and came home crying every day—she does not have the social skills to learn in a group setting and she needs very direct instruction to learn math. I taught her 6th grade math at home one summer, and she was tutored last year through prealgebra —so she could get back on the honors math strand.
Though she is struggling in the regular “old-fashioned” curriculum of algebra (she started with the class on the 5th chapter in the book) I am worried about high school. From what I can tell, all math classes she would be mainstreamed into are cpm math.
Has anyone had experience with a child with Asperger’s or NLD and CPM math? can I expect the district to put together a special math class for my daughter for algebra 2, and geometry? My daughter is in the “inclusion” program and is highly gifted. She has never had a resource class and spends 95% of her time in regular Gifted/Talented courses with modifications and adaptations. She only has an aide in PE (since it is all sports and she doesn’t follow the social rules of sports). I am worried that there will be no place for her to learn math in high school. though I live in a big city, there seems to be little “inclusion support” for the high school student who is college bound.
Re: CPM math disaster
What does CPM represent. My school uses CMP - Connected Math and I am a Special Education te. I am trying to research, both formally and informally, feedback and results for students involved with CMP. Is this the same program you refer to?
There’s an independent math program that I’ve heard mentioned on the GT/LD e-mail group I’m in — EPGY … there’s something about it at http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/epgy.htm that might be useful.