Research and Success for Everyday Mathematics:
A K–6 Math Curriculum

Efficacy

McGraw Hill works tirelessly to ensure that our programs demonstrate positive effects across settings and with a variety of relevant educational outcomes.  Our approach to evidence-based research and efficacy recognizes the value of smaller studies of program pilots and first-year implementations as well as larger experimental studies. The focus of all our research is to propel learners toward higher levels of achievement. Although it is important that our programs can demonstrate effectiveness in highly-controlled lab-like settings, our goal is to ensure that they work for real teachers in real-life situations under standard implementation conditions.

Our commitment to research includes working with world-class academics and practitioners in education to help design, develop, and validate instructional models that are based on current scholarship, establish efficacy, and support effective teaching and learning.

Everyday Mathematics is committed to continuously improving the instructional quality and academic integrity of program materials.

Tri-State Achievement Study

The ARC Center, located at the Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications (COMAP), completed an NSF-funded study that compared the effects of standards-based mathematics programs on student performance with state-mandated standardized tests in Massachusetts, Illinois, and Washington.  

The reports’ findings are based on the records of over 78,000 students: 39,701 who had used the Everyday Mathematics curriculum for at least two years and 38,481 students from comparison schools. The students were carefully matched by reading level, socioeconomic status, and other strata. 

Results showed that the average scores of students in the Everyday Mathematics schools were consistently higher than those in the comparison schools. The results hold across different state-mandated tests and across topics ranging from computation, measurement, and geometry to algebra, problem-solving, and making connections. 

What Works ClearingHouse™ Improvement Index

The U.S. Department of Education What Works Clearinghouse™ recognizes Everyday Mathematics as the most effective core elementary mathematics program in the country. 

ACE Evaluation in Michigan

 Twelve school districts in Michigan have adopted McGraw Hill’s Everyday Mathematics. In 2019, the Auburn Center for Evaluation (ACE) was asked to analyze mathematics test data from the state of Michigan’s Michigan Student Test of Educational Proficiency for students served by the program to answer this main research question: "To what extent is the utilization of McGraw Hill’s elementary mathematics curriculum associated with differences in year-end standardized test scores?"

Key Findings

1. Overall, students enrolled in school districts using the McGraw Hill curriculum had proficiency rates that were greater than demographically matched peers.
2. Non-White McGraw Hill students performed substantially outperformed non-White matched peers on the math M-STEP.
3. Fourth and fifth-grade McGraw Hill students significantly outperformed their matched peers by gender.
4. Fourth and fifth-grade economically disadvantaged McGraw Hill students had proficiency rates that were 20% greater than their matched peers.