Teach CMP4 in a Digital Collaborative Environment for Students and Teachers

You are invited to participate in a study to enhance students’ individual and collaborative engagement in learning mathematics by a digital collaborative platform, developed by the Connected Mathematics Project and Concord Consortium. Currently the CMP Digital Collaborative Platform contains all Grade 7 CMP4 Units. We are exploring the use of artificial intelligence to help organize, display, and sort evidence of student thinking during summary discussions. The cost is free to schools. Teachers are eligible to receive a stipend.

Note: Limited spots are available for the 2025-2026 school year. Please sign-up on the website to indicate your interest in participating in the project, we will begin reviewing responses June 1, 2025.

Funded by the National Science Foundation, this design research project is a partnership between Connected Mathematics Project (CMP) at Michigan State University and the Concord Consortium.

Overview of the Digital Collaborative Platform

Student Features

Investigate mathematics using a new CMP STEM Problem format that is embedded in the platform and supports students as doers, knowers, creators, and communicators of mathematics
Develop mathematics with a variety of tools in a safe and collaborative setting – graphs, tables, text, drawing, images, etc.
Students can document, share, refine, publish, curate, and retrieve their work  –work moves back and forth between individual and shared spaces
Extend learning of mathematics concepts by transforming their work into sharable and retrievable classroom artifacts for future use and reflection in a mathematics learning log
Investigate mathematics using a new CMP STEM problem format (Initial Challenge, What If…?, and Now What Do You Know?) that is embedded in the platform and supports students as doers, knowers, creators, and communicators of mathematics
Develop mathematical understandings and representations using a variety of tools (graphs, tables, drawing, text, annotations, etc.) that are embedded in the platform
Build mathematical ideas collaboratively using the sharing features in the platform (groupwork view, share, publish, copy, etc.)
Extend learning of mathematics concepts by revising, transforming, and collecting digital artifacts in a mathematical learning log for reflection and future use

STEM Problem Format and Student Workspace

Teacher Features

Access curriculum materials including student, teacher guide, and solutions.
Monitor evidence of student thinking from individuals, groups, or the entire class in real-time or after school
Select, highlight, edit, and incorporate individual student work into the class workspace
Create and send “just-in-time” supports to individual, group, and classes of students

Collaborate with teacher colleagues and school coaches to create resources, collaborate in the digital environment, and support each other in planning, teaching, and reflecting

What Does it Mean to Participate?

By participating in the research project, you will receive online access to the digital collaborative platform with embedded CMP4 Grade 7 materials (Student Edition, Teacher Edition) and participate in professional learning with other teachers. Participating teachers are eligible to receive a stipend.

Note: The digital platform was designed/developed for this research project and includes digital collaborative tools and CMP4 7^th grade units. Schools who have purchased CMP4 also have access to the publisher’s online portal which provides their materials for other units.

Participating teachers are expected to:

Teach one or more of the Grade 7 CMP4 units using the digital platform.
Assist with obtaining commitment and research permissions from school administration and parents/guardians to support your efforts
Have access to a classroom set of laptops (Chrome, Mac, or Windows) and reliable WiFi
Engage in the design and feedback of the new features for artificial intelligence regarding students’ proportional reasoning strategies
Provide feedback via virtual interviews, digital surveys, and virtual professional learning on the planning, teaching, and reflection of problems using the CMP Digital Platform
Allow the research team to potentially observe your class for select problems and conduct student interviews (Note: This may not occur in every school/class)

Please sign-up on the website to indicate your interest in participating in the project, we will begin reviewing responses June 1, 2025.

Please feel free to invite other math teachers in your department or your district!

Questions? Contact Elizabeth “Billie” Lozen at elozen@msu.edu

Project Acknowledgements: This work was supported by the National Science Foundation grant DRL-2200763. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.