MathScape: Seeing and Thinking Mathematically ©2005

MathScape is one of four middle school programs to receive a satisfactory rating from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Using MathScape, you can:

• Teach from a textbook that has been extensively researched so that materials are mathematically clear and pedagogically effective. Findings from multiple field tests in diverse settings were incorporated into the final product.
• Increase flexibility with two formats: a consolidated hardcover with seven units in each, or 21 individual softcover units.
• Guide your students sequentially from concepts and skills to application and problem solving using Phases. Each unit is divided into several Phases with the final Phase providing a variety of assessment opportunities for all levels of students.
• Enhance your curriculum coverage with strengthened content on fractions, decimals, and percents; added content on integer concepts and operations, factors, multiples, and rules of divisibility; and new lessons on proportions, graphing linear function, similarity and congruence, and transformation.