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Help Students See Themselves in the Mathematics

At Curriculum Associates, we strive to help students see themselves in their mathematics textbook, understand relevant uses of mathematics in diverse problem contexts, and feel their home cultures are valued and important. i-Ready Classroom Mathematics includes a balanced representation of cultures and groups in multiple settings, occupations, careers, and lifestyles.

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Access and Equity

All students can learn mathematics when given the right access and support. Explore these culturally responsive teaching ideas and tips for how to infuse it into your classroom.

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Connect to Families

Family Letters

Each letter includes background information and an at-home activity related to the lesson. Available in English, Spanish, Tagalog, Russian, Arabic, Mandarin, Korean, Vietnamese and Portuguese for Grades K–8. Somali and Amharic are also available for Grades K–5.

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Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5,
Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Family Center

This portal provides resources to support families and provides refreshers of the mathematical content, like the Unit Flow & Progression Videos, which are available with English and Spanish closed captioning.

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For Families Report

The i-Ready For Families report provides families with important information about their student’s overall performance and suggestions to support their learning at home.

i-Ready Classroom Mathematics Family Guides

For ideas on how to support and inspire your student’s success, begin with the i-Ready Classroom Mathematics Family Guides.

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DOWNLOAD GRADES 2–8

Connect to Community and Culture

Affirm and validate students’ identities using the embedded teacher support in i-Ready Classroom Mathematics. Contexts and ideas that a variety of students can relate to help them make better connections to the content.

Connect to Context

Connect to Context provides background information and brief activities or questions teachers can use to help students understand and connect to the problem context.

STEM Stories

STEM Stories (Grades 2–8) offer graphic novel-style stories that highlight the lives and STEM contributions of people with diverse backgrounds and feature real-life instances of the mathematical practices in action.

Connect to Culture

Strategies are provided to increase connections and encourage engagement for all students.

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Culturally Diverse Content

Students from many different cultural background see a part of their lives reflected in their schoolwork.

Real-World Connections

Real-World Connections (Grades 2–8) draw attention to how mathematics is related to the real world, with a focus on science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics.