Mathematics

Students learning math

The mathematics program encourages students to be curious, strategic, and logical thinkers.  Kinder and First Grade students begin to grasp how mathematics is everywhere around them while, protecting and stirring the imagination, students explore in play-based Learning Centers.  During Learning Centers, PATH's Degreed and Experienced Lead Teachers facilitate and guide our youngest community members in mathematics by sparking curiosity and stretching understanding of mathematical concepts creating a "math mindset" - a belief that they can do math.  With interactive and creative differentiated lessons, students begin by working with whole numbers and place value as they learn to add and subtract up through 20.  They will develop number sense as they count and compare quantities, describe situations mathematical, and describe objects.

The curriculum not only builds fundamental number skills but also emphasizes problem solving and critical thinking.  Our math program is organized into units referred to as domains.  These are:  Number and Operations Base Ten, Operations and Algebraic Thinking, Number and Operations with Fractions, Measurement and Data, and Geometry.  Mathematics curriculum applies real world problem solving emphasizing critical mathematical practices such as making sense of problems, persevering in problem solving, modeling with mathematics, reasoning abstractly and quantitatively, looking for and making use of structure, and attending to precision.  Each math lesson builds upon prior student knowledge, extending multiplication and division to multi-digit numbers and developing understanding of decimals in the place value system and in operations.  Adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing fractions in covered in depth. Student knowledge of geometry is extended to develop an understanding of volume concepts.  Each student is guided and supported at their differentiated capacities.