Curriculum Support - Mathematics

This page contains supports designed to assist in the development of standards based curriculum resources for mathematics. Supportive resources are separated in two sections:

• Colorado's District Sample Curriculum Project
• Curriculum Design Tools available on our Standards Implementation Toolkit

Colorado's District Sample Curriculum Project:

The Colorado Department of Education (CDE) defines curriculum as an organized plan of instruction for engaging students in mastering the standards. Using this definition as a basis for translating standards into effective instruction, the SIS team is working with educators across the state to refine a flexible, research-based template that can be customized for a variety of district/school curriculum design models. The initial public draft of this template provides at-a-glance and unit overviews of a curricular “landscape.”

The first page of the template delineates a possible sequence of concept-based units (connected to the content and skill-based Colorado Academic Standards) across a course/school year, while the second page provides a more in-depth overview of one of these units. Designed to convey possible unit topics and sequencing, the template shows how Standards, Grade Level Expectations, and 21st Century Skills can be translated into curriculum that convey the big ideas that students should understand, the content they should know, and the skills they be able to demonstrate (do).

Please bookmark the Standard and Instructional Support Curriculum Project page for ongoing updates and opportunities to participate.

Curriculum Design Tools::

• Vertical Progressions 
• Concept Connections (Kindergarten - 5th Grade)
• Discipline Concept Maps
  • Individually separated by grade and content
  • Grouped by grade level with all content areas
  • Grouped by content area with all grade levels

For website assistance in Mathematics, please contact Mary Pittman.