High School Report Overview

The instructional materials reviewed for the CME Traditional series do not meet expectations for alignment to the CCSSM for high school. The materials do not meet the expectations for focus and coherence as they partially meet the expectations in the following areas: attending to the full intent of the modeling process, allowing students to spend the majority of their time on the content widely applicable as prerequisites, allowing students to fully learn each standard, requiring students to engage at a level of sophistication appropriate to high school, making meaningful connections in a single course and throughout the series, and identifying and building on knowledge from Grades 6-8 to the High School Standards. Since the materials did not meet the expectations for focus and coherence, evidence for rigor and the mathematical practices in Gateway 2 was not collected.

The alignment document provided by the publisher in the front matter of each textbook includes numerous alignment errors. The pacing guide is often inconsistent with the notes within the chapters and lessons. If a lesson is deemed “optional” in the notation in the chapter, that notation should be specified in both the pacing guide and any standards aligned to that section should be specified in the alignment document as optional, too.