Each CPMP course is the product of a four-year research, development, and evaluation process involving over 35 high schools in Alaska, California, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, South Carolina, and Texas. A broad cross section of students from urban, rural, and suburban communities with ethnic and cultural diversity was represented.

Choose from among the following:

• Key Evaluation and Research Findings 1992-2013 (3.96 MB)

• Field-Test Evaluations

• Longitudinal Study:

  • Key Findings

  • Developing Mathematical Literacy (727KB)

  • College Mathematics Course-Taking and Performance Patterns

  • Instruments

  • Analyses

• Research Studies:

  • Research by the Minnesota Mathematics Achievement Project (high school and post-high results)

  • Responding to calls for change in high school mathematics: Implications for collegiate mathematics (196 KB)

  • Teacher variables that relate to student achievement when using a standards-based curriculum

  • Effects of Standards-based mathematics education: a study of the Core-Plus Mathematics Project algebra and functions strand

  • The Core-Plus Mathematics Project: Perspectives and student achievement (1.02 MB)

  • Annotated Bibliography

• Strategic Ed Solutions Report for the Business-Higher Education Forum on the Efficacy of Core-Plus Mathematics

• School Reports

• School Snapshots

• Teacher Reflections

• FAQ