"Every child has powerful mathematics potential."
Beginning in the 2024-2025 school year, NYCPS is launching an initiative called NYC Solves and for Harlem Community School District - Harlem Solves! The goal is to ensure that all New York City students develop math skills, a critical requirement for educational, career, and lifetime success. Based on extensive research, NYC Solves and Harlem Solves will ensure that students use high-quality curricula taught by well-trained and coached teachers. (click here for more information on the NYCPS website)
Hear more from Mayor Adams
and Chancellor Banks!
THE MATHEMATICS LEARNING EXPERIENCE
Students are empowered to make sense of mathematics both in the classroom and beyond including developing mathematical thinking and regularly engaging in mathematical collaboration and discourse.
Teachers facilitate instruction that is student-centered, inquiry-based, coherent and in an environment that fosters belonging and high expectations.
Content provides opportunities for students to engage in productive struggle with cognitively demanding, mathematical concepts that are connected to one another and the world around them.
THE MATHEMATICS SHIFTS
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From beginning with modeling to beginning with sensemaking
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From different tasks based on prior performance to
shared, low-floor, high-ceiling tasks
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From discourse to demonstrate understanding to
discourse to develop understanding
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From deficit-based support to asset-based support
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From using lesson materials from a variety of sources to shared, high-quality instructional materials
Click here to learn more about the NYCPS K-12 Mathematics Shifts.