Math Curriculum Evaluation Rubric

Instructional materials are designed for use by students and teachers as a learning resource for
students to acquire essential knowledge, skills, abilities, and dispositions. This includes print and
non-print materials, including comprehensive/core textbooks, supplemental materials, Web-
based and electronic textbooks, and assessments.

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Please review all materials, check each metric as either meets or does not meet expectation. List
a strength and weakness for each metric.

Metric Meets Does Not Meet Strengths Weaknesses

1. Materials reflect
the basic architecture
of the standards
required by that
grade level and focus
on the major content
for that grade.

2 Assignments
that students work on
help build an
understanding.

3. Assessment tasks
reveal whether
students understand
the mathematics in
question.

4. The materials
feature high-quality
conceptual problems.

5. The materials
feature high-quality
conceptual discussion
questions.

6. The materials
feature opportunities
to identify
correspondences
across mathematical
representations.
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7. Manipulatives
used, are faithful
representations of the
mathematical objects
they represent.

8. Manipulatives are
connected to written
methods.

9. Materials in
grades K6 provide
repeated practice
toward attainment of
fluency standards.

10. Assessment tasks

reveal whether
students have the
fluencies the
standards require.

11. There are single-

step contextual
problems that
develop the
mathematics of the
grade, afford
opportunities for
practice, and engage
students in problem
solving.

12. There are multi-

step contextual
problems that
develop the
mathematics of the
grade, afford
opportunities for
practice, and engage
students in problem
solving.

13. Assignments
allow students to
solve multi-step and
real-world problems.

14. Assessment
tasks reveal whether
students can solve
multi-step and real-
world problems.
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15. Application
problems particularly
stress applying the
major focus of the
grade.

16. Modeling build

slowly across K8,
with applications that
are relatively simple
in earlier grades and
when students are
encountering new
content.

17. In grades 68,

the problems
begin to provide
opportunities for
students to make
their own
assumptions in
order to model a
situation
mathematically

18. Tasks and

assessments of
student learning
are designed to
provide evidence of
students proficiency
in the Standards for
Mathematical
Practice.

19. The materials

support students in
constructing viable
arguments.

20. The materials

support students in
critiquing the
arguments of others.

21. The materials

support students in
producing not only
answers and
solutions, but
arguments,
explanations,
diagrams, and
mathematical models.
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22. Materials explicitly

attend to the
specialized language
of mathematics

23. The language

of argument, problem
solving, and
mathematical
explanations are
taught directly.

24. Support for

English Language
Learners
and other special
populations is
thoughtful
and helps those
students meet the
same
Standards as all other
students

25. Materials provide

appropriate level and
type of differentiation
for a broad range of
learners.

26. Materials provide

appropriate level and
type of intervention
for a broad range of
learners.

27. Design of lessons

attends to the needs
of a variety of
learners.

28. Provides
suggestions for
addressing
common student
difficulties

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