Online Resources to Support In-Person Pathways Courses
Each Pathways course curriculum includes online supports to help students maximize their learning, including conceptual lessons linked to each investigation lesson in the Student Workbook, dynamic applets integrated into lessons to help students visualize mathematical relationships, repeatable extra practice and skills support, instructional videos, and assessments with immediate feedback.
Online Conceptually-Oriented Lessons
Each course includes online lessons linked with in-class investigation lessons printed in the Student Workbook. These lessons are designed to actively engage students in constructing personal meanings for important lesson goals.
Students are not asked to passively watch videos that demonstrate disconnected algorithms and then mimic what they see. Instead, students interact with dynamic applets and answer carefully scaffolded questions so that the mathematical ideas unfold naturally and sensibly. If students struggle, feedback and hints are programmed to support them in making sense of the problem so that they can be successful.
Integrated Dynamic Applets
Online lessons include integrated interactive applets to help students visualize and explore mathematical relationships they are asked to model.
Research indicates that many students do not conceptualize variables as representing the value of quantities when those values can change, and that students must conceptualize quantities and relationships for themselves if their mathematical models are to be meaningful to them. These dynamic applets support students seeing variation in mathematical contexts and help them visualize the quantities and relationships critical to generating meaningful models.
Repeatable Practice and Assessments
Online homework is included that corresponds with the online lessons, and repeatable skills practice is available to allow students to improve their procedural fluency. Online assessments are also available that provide students and their teachers with immediate feedback on their progress.
Videos
Lessons are supported with short instructional videos that help motivate mathematical ideas, clarify connections between ideas, lessons, and units, and help students ensure they are making sense of the lesson’s key ideas.