Which math curriculum should I use?

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NCEE EVALUATION BRIEF September 2013 AFTER TWO YEARS, THREE ELEMENTARY math CURRICULA OUTPERFORM A FOURTH Which math curriculum should I use? This brief aims to help educators understand the implications of math curriculum choice in the early elementary grades by presenting new findings from a study that examined how four math curricula affect students achievement across two years from 1st through 2nd The four curricula were (1) Investigations in Number, Data, and Space (Investigations); (2) math Expressions; (3) Saxon math (Saxon); and (4) Scott Foresman-Addison Wesley Mathematics (SFAW), Which the developer revised and renamed enVision math (enVision) during the study. These curricula are widely used and differ in their approaches to teaching and learning. Within districts, we randomly assigned one of the four curricula to each school that participated in the study.

The choice of curriculum is particularly critical for elementary schools becausethey tend to use one math curriculum in several grades, thus affecting students for multiple years.However, little is known about how these curricula affect students over time. This is a key issue because

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