High School Report Overview

The instructional materials reviewed for the Agile Mind Traditional series meet expectations for alignment to the CCSSM for high school, Gateways 1 and 2. In Gateway 1, the instructional materials attend to the full intent of the non-plus standards and allow students to fully learn each non-plus standard, but they do not attend to the full intent of the modeling process when applied to the modeling standards. The materials regularly use age-appropriate contexts, apply key takeaways from Grades 6-8, and vary the types of numbers being used, but the materials do not explicitly identify and build on knowledge from Grades 6-8, although they do foster coherence through meaningful connections in a single course and throughout the series. In Gateway 2, the instructional materials meet the expectation that materials meaningfully connect the Standards for Mathematical Content and the Standards for Mathematical Practice. The instructional materials reviewed meet the expectations for the development of overarching, mathematical practices; reasoning and explaining; modeling and using tools; and seeing structure and generalizing.