How to Evaluate & Compare K-8 Adaptive Math Software Products

How to Evaluate & Compare K-8 Adaptive Math Software Products

More rigorous math standards are being implemented to improve student understanding of essential math principles and apply them, how can you be sure your adaptive math software is making the grade? This Buyers Guide offers best practices to help districts evaluate their curriculum quality and review use cases for implementing K-8 adaptive math software.

Six Essential Elements for Comparing Math Curricula

1. FOCUS, COHERENCE, AND RIGOR

2. DEEP LEARNING AND INDEPENDENT PROBLEM-SOLVING

3. ASSESSMENT AND SCAFFOLDING

4. INDIVIDUAL LEARNING PATHS

5. CLASSROOM PARTNERSHIP

6. EFFICACY RESEARCH AND STUDIES


K-8 Buyer's Guide for Online Math

How can you be sure your adaptive math software is making the grade? This Buyers Guide offers best practices to help districts evaluate their curriculum quality and review use cases for implementing K-8 adaptive math software.

Frame your own math RFP to use as a reference tool throughout the entire RFP process. Put this unique tool to work for you now.

Interactive RFP Tool

New learning standards and the reorganization of math instruction impact the selection and evaluation of new K-8 adaptive math courseware. Developing an RFP for a core subject such as math can be a complex and lengthy process. This interactive RFP tool makes it easy by:

  1. Comparing key criteria for an effective adaptive math program that are specific to your district.
  2. Rating each mathematical concept as not important, nice to have, or very important to prioritize and organize individual concepts at a more practical level.
  3. Provides a questions checklist concerning technology requirements, implementation, professional development, data needs, assessment, and standards. Districts may select some or all of these questions to include in the final RFP.
  4. Generates a Word document that includes the information that is unique to your district along with clickable links to additional resources. You can copy and paste these results and resources into your own adaptive math curriculum RFP.