Is your district looking for new elementary math materials to support the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)? Take a look at Learning List’s review of Texas Education Agency’s (TEA’s) Bluebonnet Math.
TEA’s Bluebonnet Math is a comprehensive math curriculum for students in grades K-8 and Algebra I. Materials are available in downloadable PDF format, or in print. The program intends to provide teachers with the content knowledge and tools they need to “guide students to be thinkers and doers of mathematics.” It does so by focusing student learning on the story of math and the connections across key concepts.
Lessons are consistently designed to support conceptual and procedural understanding. Students complete their work in one of three print student editions, each intended for a different purpose: Learn, Practice, Succeed.
Bluebonnet Math’s K-5 materials are intended to be implemented lesson-by-lesson, in sequence. The 6-8 materials offer flexibility based on student needs. The goal of the program is for students to develop mathematical fluency, perseverance, and conceptual and procedural understanding and application.
The teacher materials include explicit lessons designed to provide the teacher with step-by-step, scripted teacher language and expected student responses. The program also provides a variety of resources to support the development of teacher content knowledge and pedagogy, instructional resources, and assessments.
Read Learning List’s full editorial review to learn more about the design of the material. Learning List has also conducted a standard-by-standard alignment analysis of this material’s alignment to the TEKS, as well as a review of its technology compatibility and support for remote learning. These reviews not only inform selection decisions, they facilitate instructional alignment and curriculum mapping, too. To learn more about this product and thousands more PreK-12 instructional materials, contact Learning List for subscription information.
About Texas Education Agency*
Bluebonnet Learning are state-developed instructional materials that provide teachers with the tools to foster student success. Developed using the latest cognitive science, Bluebonnet Learning instructional materials cover 100% of the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) and provide a full suite of resources including scope and sequence, daily lesson plans, and student materials. All Bluebonnet Learning instructional materials are designed to be high-quality, suitable, and grade-level appropriate.
*Information in this section is provided by or adapted from the Texas Education Agency.