Conduct a Math Curriculum Audit

• 1). Set a time to do the audit of the math curriculum, using planning days before and during the first part of the school year.
  
  
• 2). Assemble teams of teachers to perform the audit. For a small district, this may mean all the math teachers in a grade; for a large district it may include a representative from each school for each grade level team.
  
  
• 3). Have each teacher representative bring her textbooks, course syllabus and any supplemental materials to the meeting.
  
  
• 4). Document the courses and lesson plans used to teach math at each grade level.
  
  

Align the Current Curriculum to the Standards

• 1). Identify the key concepts for each grade level for the standards. These are the specific concepts listed under the general headings for each grade and include topics such as number, operation and quantitative reasoning, patterns, relationships, and algebraic thinking, geometry and spatial reasoning, and measurement. Key concepts are specific topics within the general heading. An example of a key concept for the heading number, operations and quantitative reasoning for pre-K students is "The student uses numbers to name quantities."
  
  
• 2). Map each concept to the current curriculum. For example, one of the fifth grade key concepts is "The student uses place value to represent whole numbers and decimals." You need to identify which lesson plan in the current curriculum addresses this concept.
  
  
• 3). If there are key concepts that cannot be mapped to the current curriculum, the team needs to identify where and how they can be addressed. This may mean removing or consolidating lessons that do not support the standards.