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Math in RTSD

The Radnor Township School District Mathematics Department will develop students’ ability to reason mathematically, use mathematics to solve problems, and communicate their thinking to prepare them to be successful in college, their careers, and the community.

Radnor Township School District undertook a comprehensive review of K-8 math programs and selected Reveal Math to begin using in the 2023-2024 school year. The selection process included research into third-party ratings, review of print and digital materials, vendor presentations, consultations with other school districts, pilots of sample units in K-8 classrooms, and input from the RTSD Math Vertical Team of teachers. Reveal Math meets Ed Reports criteria for alignment with the Common Core Math Standards and usability. It was the clear preference of those teachers who piloted math programs and K-8 math teachers in RTSD overwhelmingly recommended it through the evaluation surveys.

For more information about the selection process, people are invited to watch the recording (starting around minute 51:45) of the K-8 Math Program Recommendation presentation at the April 18, 2023, Curriculum Committee meeting.

Read about each unit in Reveal Math, including suggestions for how to support your child’s learning at home, in the parent letters available below.

Parents are invited to watch this presentation which provides a brief summary of the Reveal Math selection process and overview of the program. Please feel free to contact your child’s teacher, principal, or Jim Kearney with questions or comments about math in RTSD

 

 

K-12 Mathematics Curriculum Sequence Roadmap

The detailed K-12 Mathematics Curriculum Sequence Roadmap shows an expanded view of the entire math sequence. 

View K-12 Math Curriculum Sequence Roadmap (pdf)

RTSD Math Placement Criteria

RTSD strives to appropriately challenge and support all students. Below is the criteria that is used to make math placement decisions for students in grades 4-8.

RTSD Math Placement Criteria for fall 2025 (PDF)

Note: If you have difficulty accessing the documents above and need it in a different format, please contact the Department of Teaching and Learning.

RTSD K-12 Math Principles

  1. To help students build positive and confident mathematical identities, teachers need to know their individual students and believe in their ability to learn and grow.
  2. Math curriculum and instruction should help all students understand that mathematics is dynamic, coherent, and multidimensional by providing regular opportunities for students to make connections among important mathematical ideas.
  3. Effective teaching of mathematics requires high expectations for all students and consistent opportunities for students to engage in productive struggle with appropriate supports as they grapple with mathematical ideas and relationships.
  4. Teachers should help students build fact fluency by directly teaching them to use of a variety of efficient math strategies and providing them with substantial and enjoyable math fact practice.
  5. Math instruction is most effective when it engages students in building on their prior knowledge, solving problems, creating representational strategies, and communicating mathematical ideas.
  6. Effective teaching of mathematics facilitates discourse among students to build shared understanding of mathematical ideas by analyzing and comparing student approaches and arguments.
  7. Math instruction and assessment should require students to apply mathematical concepts powerfully in real-world, authentic contexts that are inherently meaningful to their lives.
  8. Math assessments should represent the learning of important mathematics and provide information that both teachers and students can use to continuously support and extend learning.
  9. To help ensure we are teaching the math that students will use, current technology should influence both the math curriculum and the instruction used to help students learn.

K-8 Reveal Math Information