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How: CPM Educational Program Answers Your Questions
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Because It Works
- A study of 13,000 students that compared traditional and CPM students' responses to typical end-of-the-year course word problems showed that, on average, CPM students scored 33% higher than non-CPM students.
- California SAT9 math results for 1998-2002 show that CPM high schools score on average 6-10% higher than the state averages for grades 9-11, in every year.
- CPM students score as well as non-CPM students (and sometimes dramatically better) on tests designed to measure skills and procedures.
- Golden State Examination (GSE in California) results for algebra and geometry showed significant increases in the number of students earning recognition after the CPM materials were adopted, during the 1990's.
Because It Is Accepted By Every Major College And University
- CPM high school courses contain substantially the same topics as Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2, and Mathematical Analysis. They are accepted by every college and university in the country.
Because The Global Marketplace Is Changing
- Corporate and industry executives across the country have been concerned for years that the majority of their employees do not have the same mathematical skills as their foreign competitor's employees.
- Most of the jobs for the new millennium will be mathematics, science, and technology related.
- Corporate recruiters agree that graduates entering the workforce need skills that mathematics curricula have missed in the past. They need to be able to:
- Solve problems in a team environment;
- Analyze problems that have no obvious solution; and,
- Propose multiple solutions to new problems and test their validity.
Because It Shows Students How Mathematics Works And How To Use It
- The CPM curriculum offers students quality instruction by teachers who use several methods to teach the course materials.
- The CPM curriculum provides students with the basic skills and opportunities to develop concepts and devise solutions in a team environment.
- The CPM curriculum challenges students with rich, involved problems that require them to use basic skills in complex problems.
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