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MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
College of Natural Science
Connected Mathematics Project

What’s New?

Connected Mathematics4 Program Booklet Digital

We invite you to look at the Connected Mathematics®4’s Program Overview digital booklet created by Lab-Aids. In it you will see program features of CMP4 and see sample pages from the curriculum.

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New CMP4 Student Edition Features

  • STEM Problem Format: This problem-solving approach reflects how people make sense of and enhance the world we live in

The CMP STEM Problem Format

  • More examples of student thinking as context for promoting student learning
  • New and refreshed contexts for students to understand the world and use mathematics to solve problems
  • More problems with embedded card sorts, models, matching, games, and experiments
  • Overarching Mathematical Reflection question that guides the unit mathematical development
  • Each grade begins by building the problem-solving community with an experiment
  • Each Unit ends with a culminating problem
  • More opportunities to attend to individual learning needs
  • More and updated Did You Know? feature showing interesting and diverse applications of mathematics in everyday life and STEM fields
  • Refreshed Application-Connection-Extension (ACE) practice questions
  • Strong mathematical focus for each grade

CMP4 Mathematical Focus by Grade Level

 

List of Units

List of Units - CMP4

New Teacher Support

  • New Arc of Learning FrameworkTM highlights the development of mathematical understanding for each unit that evolves from informal knowledge to more sophisticated reasoning over time

Arc of Learning for Connected Mathematics

  • Additional support for Launch-Explore-Summarize (LES) phases of instruction
  • At a Glance lesson plans
  • New Attending to Individual Learning Needs Framework with embedded supports in LES for diverse learners and language development
    CMP Attending to Individual Learning Needs Framework

    Phillips, E. D., Lappan, G., Fey, J. T., Friel, S. N., Slanger-Grant, Y., & Edson, A. J. (2025c). A guide to connected mathematics® 4: Understanding, implementing, and teaching. Lab-Aids.

  • Embedded pedagogical strategies in the LES
  • Alignments between goals, standards, and emerging mathematical understandings
  • New Mathematics Overviews focus on mathematical development of a Unit
  • More explicit answers to mathematics problems that attend to various student strategies and understanding

New Assessment Features

  • Updated checkups, partner quizzes, and unit tests
  • New Formative Assessment Framework emphasizes how formative assessment is ongoing during planning, teaching, and reflecting
  • Explicit connections to problem learning goals and emerging student understandings