For my assignment, I interviewed a female math teacher that works at Parrish Middle School. She has been a teacher in the Salem area for 7 years and has served as the math team leader for her school.
My interview with her went very well for the most part and I learned a lot about the area and how their philosophy lines up with the nation's standards. For question 1, she basically told me that the CMP curriculum does a nice job of lining up with the core standards but is usually used as a supplement to her teaching. She will pick and choose parts of the book and show those examples to the class and work from there.
1. The CMP curriculum lines up very well with national standards. This particular teacher uses examples from the text and supplements her teaching with them and does not directly teach out of the book. She is much more creative than that.
2. When students are several grades behind, they can be placed in the same level class as their peers, and also will be enrolled in other math intensive classes to help supplement their building of and refine their math skills.
3. In CMP, homework is given out by the discretion of the teacher. The CMP workbooks don't necessarily assign students with problems to do inside the workbook; it really depends on if the students can take these home or not. In my past experiences, homework was not assigned a lot to students for whatever reasons there may have been.
4. I did not receive a very concrete response for this question because we went off on a lot of tangents during the interview.
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