Summary of The Math Map Resources

Curriculum: First and best resource. It is complete with everything needed to pursue mathematics at home and in community.

The Math Map is a curriculum designed to build the fluency of mathematics as well as build mathematical unity in the family and in our CC Communities as we strive to see the unseen in mathematics. In this effort, we employ our classical skills of learning, particularly the skills of definition and comparison. As a result, the printed curriculum, The Math Map Complex, is a fully self-contained curriculum of 30 booklets where each booklet is self-contained with what is needed to engage with the concepts for the week. We recommend that the families start the math time with flashcards as a warm-up to the day's practice pages, and these are not included in the curriculum. When Complex goes on sale in April we will offer four varieties; addition/subtraction, multiplication/division, fractions, and notations.

Exordium: Each cover of the 30 booklets has beautiful artwork, a quotation and reflection. The back of the inside front cover includes A Conversation to help inform the conversation if needed.

Frames: These pages help with the conversational/assessment aspects of the curriculum: Invention, Memoria/Arrangement, and Extended Conversation pages. These pages help us to prepare for the content of the week and remind us what we know so that we can be prepared to learn something new and then help us to become dialectic with the new things we learn. TMM Compass page helps us to track our progress.

Charts: The Charts are a complete reference for each lesson's concept. These are the sources of authority for the curriculum. They are the same across all domains. The goal by Challenge IV is to have the ability to create and explain problems that demonstrate competency of the material in the 120 Chart pages.

Lesson Pages: There are 16 practice pages in every booklet. The first 4 pages introduce the concepts for the week and the remaining pages repeat the concepts engaging different numbers and circumstances for classical learning.

Ex Nihilo- Booklet 1: The first booklet's 16 lesson pages contain a box noted as "Lesson Overview." These pages are extremely helpful for all to understand the layout of the curriculum and how best to approach it with or without access to the frames and charts. This booklet is in digital format in the Learning Center as well as in printed format in Complex.

Again, the printed curriculum is a complete and self-contained math curriculum. And because it was designed for community, we have other resources over time we will want to pursue. They include:

Challenge Guide: Tutors, parents and students engage with the Challenge Guide in CH A this year to see the outline of the logic strand each week.

TMM Companion: The Math Map Companion is a digital extension of the curriculum. The Companion provides digital versions of the printed curriculum with digitally interactive resources such as an audible glossary, links to videos connected to the pages, and more. It is similar to an encyclopedia for the curriculum with digitally interactive features. It is extremely informative. Because the Charts are the same across every domain, all CC Connected families will have access to Charts when TMM Companion launches in April.

It is not a how-to and does not provide step-by-step instructions on how to teach math.

Beta Digital Releases: The beta digital releases of Digits (5+), Naturals (6+), and Fractions (9+) housed in the Learning Center of CC Connected include:

Exordium elements (art, quote, and reflection)
A Contribution
16 lesson pages
Solutions to 16 pages
Naturals has PDF version that has 4 lessons to a page for the adult/older student desiring to go through the pages.

These beta versions are not final versions, and while they do not include all the printed components of the curriculum, it does include enough curriculum elements to pursue successful conversation and learning by employing our classical skills of 5 common topics as we have a conversation with the student to introduce the lesson pages.

What is familiar?
What is unfamiliar?

The first 4 pages of every lesson introduce all the concepts covered for that week and the remaining 12 pages are a repeat of those same concepts using different numbers and circumstances. Continuing to use the skill of definition and comparison, parents have enough information to present the material to students and students will learn.

Community: Because TMM was designed to provide unity and fluency of math in the home and in our CC Communities - tutors are the best resources as we grow into our habits of classical mathematicians. We have support from The Math Map team, Classical Conversations, and equipped tutors. This is the component that we have not had in the logic strand before and it is a powerful component for learning.

The student completing Complex will, generally speaking, have studied concepts from number theory, geometry, algebra, trigonometry and calculus implemented with number groups through Complex Domain.