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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s Into Math® © 2020 is an intentional, comprehensive, and inspiring mathematics program for Grades K–8 that centers on student growth. Growth is maximized when instruction, assessment, and professional learning are coordinated and tightly aligned. Into Math © 2020 is structured to support growth in teaching and learning. The curriculum seeks to promote the following:

Focused and Purposeful Content – Carefully crafted mathematical tasks, differentiated resources, and clear instructional supports help teachers put every student front and center.
Ongoing and Relevant Support – Embedded student supports, classroom videos, resources libraries, and coaching provide learning opportunities for teachers.
Integrated and Actionable Assessment, Data, and Reports – Auto-scored assignments and assessments help educators make data-informed instructional decisions.

Built upon a foundation of mathematics education research and authored by leaders in the field of mathematics education, Into Math © 2020 is proven to be effective in raising students’ achievement. This document highlights the features of this cohesive, innovative program while explicitly demonstrating the research upon which it is based.

REFLEX

Reflex is fun... and it works!

Reflex makes it easy to get students math fact fluent and ready for more complex math. Assessment, coaching, and practice are delivered via a fun, game-based approach. And because it is fully adaptive, students get the individualized instruction they need to be successful.

A few factors behind Reflex’s success:

The system is based on a fact family approach that builds on and reinforces important mathematical concepts such as the commutative property and the relationship between the operations. When students understand the conceptual connections between facts, their progress to automaticity is accelerated.
Reflex is highly adaptive and individualized so that students of all ability levels have early and ongoing success. In addition, the system consistently rewards students for both their effort and progress toward automaticity. They come to understand that if they are willing to put in the work, they really can succeed in math.
Reflex interactive fluency development games are different. Unlike typical math fact games, they require students to engage in increasingly complex and fast-paced decision-making. Once students answer facts fluently while achieving game objectives, you can be confident they are ready to learn new math concepts in your classroom.

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FRAX

FRAX is fun and engaging!

ExploreLearning Frax zeros in on fractions so students can build the concepts and skills that most impact their path to progress. And we’re using a proven, research-driven approach to do it.

We took on math fact fluency—another major barrier to math achievement—with ExploreLearning Reflex. Adaptive and game-based, it’s helped millions of students master their facts and learn to love math. Now Frax is doing the same creating a more effective, more fun way to learn fractions.

Why deep knowledge of fractions is so important early on:

Performance with fractions has been a weak point in U.S. education for decades and has not improved in recent years. In a recent national survey of 1,000 Algebra 1 teachers, most rated students’ knowledge of fractions as “poor” and rated fractions as the second greatest barrier to students mastering algebra (second only to word problems).2

As an example, in 1978, less than one-fourth of a nationally representative sample of 20,000 8th graders could answer this question on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP): What number is 12/13 + 7/8 closest to? (Answer choices: 1, 2, 19, 21, I don’t know)? The most common answers were 19 and 21. Nearly 40 years later, the results had barely changed

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