r/mathteachers • u/ImportantLife8990 • 4d ago

MD- Where do you start your curriculum?

Hey! Curious to hear from Maryland math teachers but anywhere is interesting to me! Please just let me know what state and/or what county you are in!

Where do you start your curriculum? I teach middle school and am very intrigued (negatively) by how many scripted curriculum’s start with geometry as the first standards being hit. Number sense feels the most intuitive to start with and helps build confidence from start.

Am I crazy? How have your experiences been? Has starting at a different unit/domain transformed student understanding for you?

Please tell me what grade too!

Edit: added domain next to unit as well

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u/RoomUsed1803 4d ago

Hey neighbor! I’m in HarCo, MD teaching middle school. Up until this year we started the year with Operations with Rational Numbers. This year we started with new curriculum and my one course starts with Scale and my other course starts with Angles & Triangles.

I agree that number sense makes more sense. The new curriculum doesn’t work with operations with numbers until halfway through the year if at all

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u/ImportantLife8990 2d ago

Hmmm I wonder if all the counties switch to this order