Old Quarry Students, Staff Break In New Math Textbook Series

Students and teachers at Old Quarry Middle School are working with “Go Math!,” a new math textbook series.

“This new series is kid friendly,” said Principal Dr. William Caron. ”Our students can take all their notes in the book right next to the explanations of problems and practice problems.”

Old Quarry Middle School adopted the Go Math math series from Houghton, Mifflin, Harcourt publishers for grades six, seven, and eight. The series will be used in both the regular and advanced math courses for the next three years.

“We had a committee of teachers and administrators look at several different series of books and overwelmingly Go Math was the series that helps us meet the needs of our students and aligns with the State Standards,” Caron said.

The Go Math Series is packed full of activities that activate the students math knowledge and put that knowledge into practice. Each book is set up by units aligned with the State Standards and then those units are broken down in to learning modules. Each module consists of a series of lessons which introduce and reinforce best math practices and activates prior learning. Along with each lesson are multiple ways students can also use technology such as smart phones or iPads to access QR codes for on the spot tutorial help.

The series reinforce the Seven Sandards of Mathematcal Content which includes:

• Making sense of problems and perserving to solve them
• Reasoning abstractly and quantitatively
• Constructing vialble arguments and critiquing the reasoning of others
• Creating models with mathematics
• Using appropriate tools strtegically
• Attending to precision
• Looking for and making use of structure and
• Looking for an expressing regularity in repeated reasoning.

“The combination of math practice, math reasoning, technology, and the ability to have one source to keep everything together is going to help our students sore in math. Go Math!” states Principal Caron. If you would like to know more about the Go Math series, contact Old Quarry Middle School at 630-257- 2286 to talk to any of the math teachers.