The Math Pathways & Pitfalls (MPP) Institute provides professional development for teachers along with prevention and intervention lessons for students. Our service helps you implement research-based principles and practices using both evidence-based, award-winning MPP lessons and your classroom resources.
How We Help
Math Pathways & Pitfall’s (MPPs) five implementation modules leads teachers through MPP’s five foundational principles:
- Building Mathematical Discussions
- Making Sense
- Confronting Pitfalls
- Visualizing and Connecting
- Capturing Key Ideas
Each module shows how its corresponding principle is highlighted in MPP lessons and how to incorporate the associated teaching practices into any mathematics lesson. Each module is offered as a one-day institute on-site at your school or district, or at WestEd’s office in Alameda, CA. Teachers may participate in all five, or any combination, of the institutes.
What’s Included?
Module 1 includes an MPP book with lessons and teaching guides for your grade band. The book includes a Discussion Builders poster and pre–post assessment items. Additional content is available online for teachers and students.
Modules 2–5 use materials from Module 1, as well as teachers’ own textbook materials, to develop comprehensive lesson models for use in the classroom.
Visit our MPP website to learn more and download sample lessons.
Service Delivery
- Online and onsite
Who Will Benefit
- Instructional coaches
- District administrators
- School administrators
- State Educational Agency
- Teachers
Aha! My students wouldn’t talk or show their work. After the third MPP lesson, I couldn’t believe the difference. They wanted to show their ideas, they were willing to be challenged, and they thought deeply about the mathematics. These are 6th graders!
— Kim Kean
6th Grade Teacher,
Hayward (CA) Unified School District
Featured Experts
José Franco
Connecting Research With Practice
Two randomized trial efficacy studies and explanatory descriptive studies have documented the impact of Math Pathways & Pitfalls and help explain why it is effective with diverse learners.
One experimental study demonstrated that one year (only 15 lesson hours) of Math Pathways & Pitfalls is effective across grade levels for students and teachers in rural, suburban, and urban schools.
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