UTAH MIDDLE SCHOOL MATH

Our hope is that teachers will organize the classroom around learning in the way that is most suitable to them and their students. Our role is to provide materials that are adaptable by the teacher whatever the pedagogical approach... We believe success hinges on student engagement in the classroom as well as the influence of outside agents, primarily parents. Thus, the parent resource materials are aimed at engaging parents in the education of students... The original 7th and 8th grade textbook materials were created in response to the Math Materials Access Improvement solicitation issued by the Utah State Board of Education in June of 2012. For those materials, Hugo Rossi was the Principal Investigator with Maggie Cummings and David Wiley serving as Co-Principal Investigators. Those materials were a collaborative work with contributors from University of Utah, Utah State University, Snow College, and Weber State College; Jordan, Granite, Davis and Salt Lake City School districts;..