- Is organized around important mathematical ideas
- Develops deep understanding of important ideas
- Embeds ideas in carefully selected and sequenced problems, to develop a coherent, connected curriculum (Development of CMP)
- Makes rich connections across problems, investigations from grade to grade (Mathematics Content)
- Provides ongoing practice and assessment for important concepts, related skills, and algorithms (Components)
- Supports inquiry instruction and learning with an instructional model based on findings from recent cognitive research. (Teaching CMP)
- Supports teacher learning of both content and pedagogical strategies with extensive teacher guides (Teaching CMP)
- Meets the needs of all students to grow in their ability to reason effectively, using different representations (Differentiated Instruction)
