Everyday Mathematics Curriculum

Nov 30, 2014 | Glen Rock/Ridgewood

If your child is struggling or just getting by with Everyday Mathematics, call us now and we can help him/her excel.  Our method of teaching is to make sure that your child understands what he/she is learning with the current school material.  To take it one step further, we will also "pre-teach" our students ahead of time so he/she understands the upcoming lessons that will be taught in school. 

1st Grade Everyday Mathematics
2nd Grade Everyday Mathematics
3rd Grade Everyday Mathematics
4th Grade Everyday Mathematics
5th Grade Everyday Mathematics
6th Grade Everyday Mathematics

1st grade (Everyday Mathematics)

  • Establishing Routines
    • Daily routines
    • Investigating the number line
    • Tools for doing mathematics
    • Number writing practice
    • One more, one less
    • Comparing numbers
    • Recording tally counts
    • Investigating equally likely outcomes
    • The calendar
    • Working in small groups
    • Explorations: exploring math materials
    • Weather and temperature routines
    • Number stories
  • Everyday Uses of Numbers
    • Number grids
    • Numbers all around
    • Complements of 10
    • Unit label for numbers
    • Analog clocks
    • Telling time to the hour
    • Explorations:  exploring lengths, straightedges, and dominoes
    • Pennies
    • Nickels
    • Counting pennies and nickels
    • Number models
    • Subtraction number models
    • Number stories
  • Visual Patterns, Number Patterns, and Counting
    • Visual patterns
    • Even and odd number patterns
    • Number grid patterns
    • Explorations:  exploring number patterns, shapes, and patterns
    • Counting on the number line
    • Adding and subtracting from the number line
    • Telling time to the half hour
    • Introduction to the frames and arrows routine
    • More frames and arrows problems
    • Counting with a calculator
    • Dimes
    • Counting dimes, nickels and pennies
    • Data day
    • Domino addition
  • Measurement and Basic Facts
    • Math message and reading a thermometer
    • Nonstandard linear measures
    • Personal "Foot" and standard foot
    • The inch
    • The 6-inch ruler
    • Measuring with a tape measure
    • Explorations:  exploring data, shapes, and base-10 blocks
    • Telling time on the quarter hour
    • Timelines
    • Number scrolls
    • Introducing fact power
    • Good fact habits and making ten
  • Place Value, Number Stories, and Basic Facts
    • Place value: tens and ones
    • Place value with calculators
    • Relations: greater than, less than, and equal to
    • Explorations:  exploring area, weight, and counting
    • Animal weights
    • More than and less than number stories
    • Comparison number stories
    • Solving number stories
    • Dice sums
    • Facts using doubles
    • Fact strategy review
    • What's my rule?
    • Applying rules
  • Developing Fact Power
    • The addition/subtraction facts table
    • Equivalent names
    • Fact families
    • Fact triangles
    • Using strategies to solve subtraction facts
    • The centimeter
    • Explorations:  exploring pattern blocks, addition facts, and triangles
    • Addition facts practice with "what's my rule?"
    • Quarters
    • Digital clocks
    • Introducing my reference book
    • Data landmarks
  • Geometry and attributes
    • Attribute rules
    • Explorations:  exploring attributes, designs and fact platters
    • Pattern-block and template shapes
    • Making polygons
    • Spheres, cylinders, and rectangular prisms
    • Pyramids, cones and cubes
    • Symmetry
  • Mental Arithmetic, Money and Fractions
    • Review: money
    • Dollars
    • Place value: hundreds, tens and ones
    • Application: shopping at the school store
    • Making change
    • Equal shares
    • Fractions
    • Sharing pennies
    • Explorations:  exploring fractional parts and addition facts
  • Place Value and Fractions
    • Tens and ones patterns on the number grid
    • Adding and subtracting tens
    • Number grid puzzles
    • Adding and subtracting 2-digit numbers
    • Explorations:  exploring capacity, symemetry and heights
    • Fractional parts of the whole
    • Comparing fractions
    • Many names for fractional parts
  • Year-End Review and Assessment
    • Data day: end of year heights
    • Review: telling time
    • Mental arithmetic: using a vending machine poster
    • Mental arithmetic
    • Year-end geometry review
    • Review:  thermometers and temperature
    • Review:  place values, scrolls and number grids

2nd grade (Everyday Mathematics)

  • Math Message and Number Sequences
    • Tools and coins
    • Calendars and clocks
    • Grouping by tens - $1, $10, $100
    • Math boxes
    • Number grids
    • Equivalent names for numbers
    • Counting patterns
    • Relations (<, >, =)
    • Explorations:  exploring temperature, base-10 structures, and dominoes
  • Addition and Subtraction Facts
    • Addition number stories
    • Review "easy" addition facts
    • Double facts
    • Turn-around facts and the +9 shortcut
    • Addition strategies that use doubles facts
    • Subtraction from addition
    • Fact families
    • Explorations:  exploring weights and scales, odd and even patterns, and equal groups
    • Name collections
    • Frames-and-arrows routines
    • "What's my rule?" routines
    • Counting strategies for subtraction
    • Shortcuts for "harder" subtraction facts
  • Place Value, Money and Time
    • Numeration and place value
    • Using coins to buy things
    • Telling time
    • Explorations:  exploring numbers, time, and geoboards
    • Data day:  pockets
    • Frames-and-arrows having two rules
    • Making change by counting up
    • Coin exchanges
  • Addition and Subtraction
    • Change-to-more number stories
    • Parts-and total number stories
    • Explorations:  exploring temperatures, money and shapes
    • Temperature changes
    • Estimating costs
    • A shopping activity
    • Explorations:  exploring length, area, and attributes
    • Paper-and-pencil addition strategies
    • The partial-sums addition algorithm
  • 3-D and 2-D Shapes
    • Explorations:  exploring rules, sharing and time
    • Points and line segments
    • Parallel line segments
    • Explorations:  exploring polygons, arrays, and attributes
    • Quadrangles
    • 3-Dimensional shapes
    • Pyramids
    • Line symmetry
  • Whole-Number Operations ad Number Stories
    • Addition of three or more numbers
    • Comparison number stories
    • Data day:  the five food groups
    • Mixed addition and subtraction stories
    • Subtraction strrategies
    • Explorations:  exploring arrays, coins, and division
    • Multiples of equal groups
    • Array number stories
    • Multiplication with arrays
    • Division stories
  • Patterns and Rules
    • Patterns in counting
    • Extending complements of 10
    • Mental arithmetic:  a basketball game
    • Patterns in doubles and halves
    • Explorations:  exploring weights, equal sharing, and patterns
    • Data day:  standing jumps and arm spans
    • Middle value (median) of a set of data
    • Frequency distributions
  • Fractions
    • Equal parts of ONE
    • Explorations:  exploring fractions, multiplication and division, and volume
    • Collections of things
    • Equivalent fractions
    • Equivalent fractions using fraction cards
    • Comparing fractions
    • Fraction number stories
  • Measurement
    • Measuring with yards and meters
    • Linear measures
    • Fractional units of length
    • Perimeter
    • Measuring longer distances
    • Explorations:  exploring capacity, area and measures
    • Area
    • Capacity
    • Weight
  • Decimals and Place Value
    • Money
    • Decimal notation for pennies and dimes
    • Money amounts with a calculator
    • Using a calculator to solve problems with money
    • Estimating and finding exact costs
    • Making change
    • Explorations:  exploring area, polygons , and geoboard fractions
    • Place value
    • Place-value tools
    • Place-value notation for ten-thousands
    • Grouping with parentheses
  • Whole-Number Operations Revisited
    • Addition number stories with dollars and cents
    • Subtraction number stories with dollars and cents
    • The trade-first subtraction algorithm
    • Multiples of equal groups
    • Division number models
    • Multiplication facts
    • Products table
    • Multiplication/division fact families
  • Year-End Reviews and Exensions
    • Review:  the calendar
    • Review:  Clock skills
    • Timelines
    • Practice:  multiplication facts
    • Division from multiplication
    • Graphs;  comparing speeds of animals and people
    • The mode of a set of data


3rd Grade (Everyday Mathematics)

  • Routines, Reviews, and Assessments
    • Numbers and number sequences
    • Number grids
    • Introducing the student reference book
    • Tools for mathematics
    • Analyzing and displaying data
    • Equivalent names
    • The language of chance events
    • Finding differences
    • Calculator routines
    • Money
    • Solving problem with dollars and cents
    • Patterns
    • The length-of-day project
  • Adding and Subtracting Whole Numbers
    • Fact families
    • Extensions of addition and subtraction facts
    • "What's my rule?"
    • Parts-and-total number stories
    • Change number stories
    • Comparison number stories
    • The partial-sums algorithm
    • Subtraction algorithms
    • Addition with three or more addends
  • Linear Measures and Area
    • A "classic shoe" unit of length
    • Measuring with a ruler
    • Standard linear measures
    • Perimeter
    • A Pattern-block toss experiment
    • Explorations:  exploring perimeter and area
    • Area
    • Number models for area
    • Diameter and Circumference
  • Multiplication and Division
    • Multiples of equal groups
    • Multiplication arrays
    • Equal shares and equal groups
    • Division ties to multiplication
    • Multiplication fact power and shortcuts
    • Multiplication and division fact families
    • Baseball multiplication
    • Explorations:  exploring arrays and facts
    • Estimating distances with a map scale
    • A coin-toss experiment
  • Place Value in Whole Numbers and Decimals
    • Place value through ten-thousands
    • Reading, writing, and ordering numbers
    • Place value to millions
    • Application:  The U.S. census
    • Very large numbers
    • Explorations:  exploring estimates and polygons
    • Model decimals with base-10 blocks
    • Tenths and hundredths
    • Tens and hundredths of a meter
    • Application:  rainfall
    • Place value in decimals
    • Sunrise-sunset line graphs
  • Geometry
    • Investigating line segments, rays, and lines
    • Parallel & intersecting line segments, rays and lines
    • Angles and turns
    • Triangles
    • Quadrangles
    • Polygons
    • Draw angles
    • Measuring angles
    • Symmetry
    • Explorations:  exploring congruence, line segments, and decimals
    • Polyhedrons, part 1
    • Polyhedrons, part 2
  • Multiplication and Division
    • Patterns in products
    • Multiplication facts survey
    • Fact power
    • Number models with parentheses
    • Scoring in basketball: an application
    • Extended facts: multiplication and division
    • Estimating costs
    • Extended facts: products of tens
    • Exploration: exploring ratios, and geometric figures
  • Fractions
    • Naming parts with a fraction
    • Block-in-a-bag experiment
    • Explorations:  exploring fractions, re-forming squares, and combinations
    • Number-line posters for fractions
    • Equivalent fractions
    • Comparing fractions
    • Fractions greater than ONE
    • Fractions in number stories
  • Multiplication and Division
    • Multiply and divide with multiples of 10, 100, and 1000
    • Using mental math to multiply
    • Explorations:  exploring arrays, areas, and fractions
    • A multiplication algorithm
    • Buying at the stock-up sale
    • Factors of a whole number
    • Sharing money
    • Broken-calculator division
    • Lattice multiplication
    • Explorations:  exploring arrays, equilateral triangles, and strength of paper
    • Products of 2-digit numbers, part 1
    • Products of 2-digit numbers, part 2
    • Positive and negative numbers
  • Measurement and Data
    • Review:  length
    • Volume
    • Weight
    • Explorations:  exploring weight and volume
    • Capacity
    • The mean and the median
    • Calculating the mean
    • Calculator memory
    • Frequency distributions
    • Coordinate grids
  • Probability; Year-long Projects, Revisited
    • The length-of-day project revisited
    • National high/low temperature summaries
    • Spinner experiment
    • Designing spinners
    • Using data to predict outcomes


4th Grade (Everyday Mathematics)

  • Naming and Constructing Geometric Figures
    • Introduction to the student reference book
    • Points, line segments, lines, and Rays
    • Angles, triangles, and quadrangles
    • Parallelograms
    • Polygons
    • Drawing circles with a compass
    • Circle construction
    • Hexagon and triangle constructions
  • Using Numbers and Organizing Data
    • A visit to Washington, D.C.
    • Many names for numbers
    • Place value in whole numbers
    • Place value with a calculator
    • Organizing and displaying data
    • The median
    • Addition of multidigit numbers
    • Displaying data with graphs
    • Subtraction of multidigit numbers
  • Multiplication and Division; Number Sentences and Algebra
    • "What's my rule?"
    • Multiplication facts
    • Multiplication facts practice
    • More multiplication facts practice
    • Multiplication and division
    • World tour:  flying to Africa
    • Finding air distances
    • A guide for solving number stories
    • True of false number sentences
    • Parentheses in number sentences
    • Open sentences
  • Decimals and Their Uses
    • Decimal place value
    • Review of basic decimal concepts
    • Comparing and ordering decimals
    • Estimating with decimals
    • Decimal addition and subtraction
    • Decimals in money
    • Thousandths
    • Metric units of length
    • Personal references for Metric length
    • Measuring in Millimeters
  • Big Numbers, Estimation, and Computation
    • Extended multiplication facts
    • Multiplication wrestling
    • Estimating sums
    • Estimating products
    • Partial-products multiplication (part 1)
    • Partial-products multiplication (part 2)
    • Lattice multiplication
    • Big numbers
    • Powers of 10
    • Rounding and reporting large numbers
    • Comparing data
  • Division; Map Reference Frames; Measures of Angles
    • Multiplication and division number stories
    • Strategies for division
    • The partial-quotients division algorithm, part 1
    • Expressing and interpreting remainders
    • Rotations and angles
    • Using a full-circle protractor
    • The half-circle protractor
    • Rectangular coordinate grids for maps
    • Global coordinate grid system
    • The partial-quotients division algorithm, part 2
  • Fractions and Their Uses; Chance and Probability
    • Review of basic fraction concepts
    • Fractions of sets
    • Probabilities when outcomes are equally likely
    • Pattern-block fractions
    • Fraction and mixed-number addition and subtraction
    • Many names for fractions
    • Equivalent fractions
    • Fractions and decimals
    • Comparing fractions
    • The ONE for fractions
    • Probability, fractions and spinners
    • A cube-drop experiment
    • Multiplying fractions by whole numbers
  • Perimeter and Area
    • Kitchen layouts and perimeter
    • Scale drawings
    • Area
    • What is the area of my skin?
    • Formula for the area of a rectangle
    • Formula for the area of a parallelogram
    • Formula for the area of a triangle
    • Geographical area measurements
  • Fractions, Decimals, and Percents
    • Fractions, decimals and Percents
    • Converting "Easy" fractions to decimals and percents
    • Using a calculator to convert fractions to decimals
    • Using a calculator to rename fractions as percents
    • Conversion among fractions, decimals, and percents
    • Comparing the results of a survey
    • Comparing population data
    • Multiplication of decimals
    • Division of decimals
  • Reflections and Symmetry
    • Explorations with a transparent mirror
    • Finding lines of reflection
    • Properties of reflections
    • Line symmetry
    • Frieze patterns
    • Positive and negative numbers
    • a3-D shapes, Weight, Volume, and Capacity
    • Weight
    • Geometry solids
    • Constructing geometric solids
    • A volume exploration
    • A formula for the volume of a rectangular prisms
    • Subtraction of positive and negative numbers
    • Capacity
  • Rates
    • Introducing rates
    • Solving rate problems
    • Converting between rates
    • Comparison shopping: part 1
    • Comparison shopping: part 2
    • World tour wrap-up


5th Grade (Everyday Mathematics)

  • Number Theory
    • Introduction to the student reference book
    • Rectangular arrays
    • Factors
    • The factor captor game
    • Divisibility
    • Prime and composite numbers
    • Square numbers
    • unsquaring numbers
    • Factor strings and prime factorizations
  • Estimation and Computation
    • Estimation challenge
    • Addition of whole numbers and decimals
    • Subtraction of whole numbers and decimals
    • Addition and subtraction number stories
    • Estimate your reaction time
    • Chance events
    • Estimating products
    • Multiplication of whole numbers and decimals
    • The lattice method of multiplication
    • Comparing millions, billions and trillions
  • Geometry Explorations and the America Tour
    • Introduction to the American tour
    • American tour:  population data
    • Exploring angle measures
    • Using a protractor
    • Using a compass
    • Congruent triangles
    • Properties of polygons
    • Regular tessellations
    • Angles of polygons
    • Solving problems using the geometry template
  • Division
    • Division facts and extensions
    • The partial-quotients division algorithm
    • American tour:  finding distances on a map
    • Partial-quotients algorithm strategies
    • Division of decimal numbers
    • Interpreting the remainder
    • Skills review with first to 100
  • Fractions, decimals, and percents
    • Fraction review
    • Mixed numbers
    • Comparing and ordering fractions
    • Two rules for finding equivalent fractions
    • Fractions and decimals:  part 1
    • Fractions and decimals:  part 2
    • Fractions and decimals:  part 3
    • Using a calculator to convert fractions to percents
    • Bar and circle graphs
    • The percent circle:  reading circle graphs
    • The percent circle:  making circle graphs
    • American tour:  school days
  • Using Data; Addition and Subtraction of Fractions
    • Organizing data
    • Natural measures of length
    • Stem-and-Leaf plots for hand and finger measures
    • Mystery plots
    • Sample size and sound conclusions
    • Analysis of sample data
    • American tour:  climate
    • Using benchmarks with fraction addition and subtraction
    • Clock fractions and common denominators
    • Quick common denominators
  • Exponents and Negative Numbers
    • Exponential notation
    • Exponential notation for powers of 10
    • Scientific notation
    • Parentheses in number sentences
    • Order of operations
    • American tour:  line graphs
    • Using negative numbers
    • Addition of positive and negative numbers
    • Subtraction of positive and negative numbers
    • Line plots
    • Calculator practice:  working with negative numbers
  • Fractions and Ratios
    • Review:  comparing fractions
    • Adding mixed numbers
    • Subtracting mixed numbers
    • Calculator practice:  computation with fractions
    • Fractions of fractions
    • An area model for fraction multiplication
    • Multiplication of fractions and whole numbers
    • Multiplication of mixed numbers
    • Find a percent of a number
    • Relating fractional units to the whole
    • American tour:  rural and urban
    • Fraction division
  • Coordinates, Area, Volume, and Capacity
    • Hidden treasure:  a coordinate game
    • Coordinate graphs:  part 1
    • Coordinate graphs:  part 2
    • Areas of rectangles
    • The rectangle method for finding area
    • Formulas for the areas of triangles and parallelogram
    • Earth's water surface
    • Volume of rectangular prisms
    • Capacity:  liter, milliliter, and cubic centimeter
  • Using Data; Algebra Concepts and Skills
    • Pan-balance problems
    • Pan-balance problems with two balances
    • Algebraic expressions
    • Rules, tables, and graphs:  part 1
    • American tour:  old faithful's next eruption
    • Rules, tables, and graphs:  part 2
    • Reading graphs
    • Circumference of a circle
    • Area of a circle
  • Volume
    • Review of geometric solids:  part 1
    • Review of geometric solids:  part 2
    • Volume of cylinders
    • Volume of pyramids and cones
    • Finding volume by a displacement method
    • Capacity and weight
    • Surface area
  • Probability, Rates, and Rates
    • Factor trees
    • Choices, tree diagrams, and probability
    • American tour:  ratio exploration
    • Ratios of parts to wholes
    • Number models for ratio number stories
    • Finding your heart rate
    • Collecting, graphing, and interpreting data
    • Finding your cardiac output


6th Grade (Everyday Mathematics)

  • Collection, Display, and Interpretation of Data
    • Introduction to the student reference book
    • Line plots
    • Stem-and-Leaf plots
    • Median and Mean
    • Playing landmark shark
    • Box plots
    • Broken-line graphs
    • Bar graphs
    • Step graphs
    • The percent circle and circle graphs
    • Using a graph to investigate perimeter and area
    • Persuasive data and graphs
    • Samples and surveys
  • Operations with Whole Numbers and Decimals
    • Reading and writing large numbers
    • Reading and writing small numbers
    • Addition and subtraction of decimals
    • Multiplying by powers of 10
    • Multiplication of decimals:  part 1
    • Multiplication of decimals:  part 2
    • Division of whole numbers
    • Division of decimals
    • Scientific notation for large and small numbers
    • Exponential notation and the power key on a calculator
    • Scientific notation on a calculator
  • Variables, Formulas, and Graphs
    • Using variables to describe number patterns
    • General patterns (two variables)
    • Algebraic expressions
    • Formulas
    • Formulas, tables, and graphs:  part 1
    • A science experiment
    • Variables and formulas in spreadsheets:  part 1
    • Variables and formulas in spreadsheets:  part 2
    • Reading and drawing graphs
    • Formulas, tables, and graphs:  part 2
  • Rational Number Uses and Operations
    • Equivalent fractions
    • Comparing fractions
    • Adding and subtracting fractions
    • Adding and subtracting mixed numbers with like denominators
    • Adding and subtracting mixed numbers with unlike denominators
    • Fraction multiplication
    • Multiplication of mixed numbers
    • Fractions, decimals and percents
    • More difficult conversion
    • Graphing garbage
    • Percent of a number
  • Geometry:  Congruence, Constructions, and Parallel Lines
    • Measuring and drawing angles
    • Reasoning with angle measures
    • Using a protractor to make circle graphs
    • Coordinate geometry
    • Isometry transformation
    • Congruent figures
    • Compass-and-Straightedge construction
    • Parallel lines and angle relationships
    • Parallelograms
  • Number Systems and Algebra Concepts
    • Multiplication of fractions and mixed numbers
    • Division of fractions and mixed numbers
    • Review:  addition and subtraction of positive and negative numbers
    • Multiplication and division of positive and negative numbers
    • Absolute value
    • The properties of number system
    • Order of operation
    • Review:  number sentences
    • Solving simple equations
    • Review:  pan-balance problems
    • Pan-balance equations
    • The equivalent-equations method
    • Inequalities
  • Probability and Discrete Mathematics
    • Probability when outcomes are equally likely
    • Generating random numbers
    • A random-number simulation
    • Tree diagrams
    • Using tree diagrams to calculate probabilities
    • Venn diagrams
    • Fair and unfair games
    • Strategies for multiple-choice tests
  • Rates and Ratios
    • Rates, rate tables, and unit rates
    • Solving rate problems with proportions
    • Solving proportions by cross multiplication
    • Calorie use
    • Using nutrition information
    • Ratios
    • Using proportions to solve percent problems
    • Calculating the fat content of food
    • Using ratios to describe size changes
    • Similar polygons
    • Comparing ratios
    • The golden ratio
  • More about Variables, Formulas, and Graphs
    • Area models for the distributive property
    • The distributive property
    • Simplifying expressions:  combining like terms
    • Simplifying expressions:  removing parentheses
    • Simplifying and solving equations
    • Using equations to solve mobile problems
    • Computer spreadsheets
    • Area formulas with application
    • Volume formulas with application
    • Solving equations by trial and error
    • Formula equations
    • The Pythagorean theorem
    • Indirect measurement problems
  • Geometry Topics
    • Semiregular tessellations
    • Escher-type translation tessellations
    • Rotation symmetry
    • Introduction to topology
    • Mobius strips