Investigations Math is a complete K-5 mathematics curriculum developed at TERC in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It's designed to help all children understand fundamental ideas of numbers and operations, geometry, data, measurements and early algebra.
One teacher has said that if you are trained in Investigations Math and know how to present and teach it, then it is a very good resource to have. All of the rest of the articles I read were negative about it. Not one other was positive. Some of the arguments they said were: Investigations Math doesn't teach students their times tables, California did an almost identical program and the students test scores dropped, hundreds of leading University math professors and Nobel Lareates condemn the Investigations Math.
From what I learned, Investigations Math is a very negative program and Alpine District is changing from it to another program. The students do not learn the basic multiplication and division skills that are key to completing higher math programs. Times tables and division is a necessity in life that can not be taken lightly. Most all that I read were negative reviews on it.
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