Target Individualized Instruction on Essential Math Skills

Using results from the CAMS series, the STAMS series helps educators teach foundational math skills and concepts for each grade.

Overview

Scaffolded Lessons and Tools to Strengthen Math Foundations

STAMS is ideal for students who need extra support to meet grade-level mathematics requirements. Lesson topics have been carefully sequenced so students move from basic skills to more complex content.

Highly scaffolded lessons and a consistent instructional routine reteach concepts that students never mastered.
Student pages are highly visual to make the lesson more engaging and accessible for struggling learners.
Engaging Interactive Whiteboard Activities for every lesson.

Topics include: Place Value, Addition and Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, Fractions, Decimals, Ratios, Proportional Relationships, Expressions, Equations, Plane Geometry, Linear Measurement, Area, Surface Area, Volume, and Graphs.

Program Type:Instruction
Subject:Mathematics
Grade(s):K–8
Language:English
Format:Print

Program Features

Essential Math Skills Mastery

Target foundational math skills from place value to geometry with carefully sequenced lessons that build from basic to complex concepts. Each grade level focuses on the most critical math skills students need to advance, ensuring comprehensive coverage of core mathematical concepts.

Progressive Learning Design

Engage students through highly visual, scaffolded lessons that gradually build independence. The consistent five-part lesson structure includes targeted practice with multiple question types while systematically reducing support to develop confident, independent problem solvers.

Research-Based Teaching Support

Implement proven instructional strategies with built-in best practices for wait time, collaborative learning, and progress monitoring. Access detailed math background information, step-by-step teaching guidance, and specialized English Learner support to deliver effective instruction for all learners.

Our Professional Learning suite offers collaborative live sessions and curated, on-demand digital resources to help educators drive meaningful student outcomes with their Curriculum Associates programs.

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What's Included

Buying Information

Student Book

Scaffolded, visual lessons for striving mathematics students
Five-part progressive lessons with gradually reduced support
Multiple-choice, extended-response, and short-response practice
Increasingly challenging problems throughout lessons
Covers essential grade-level mathematics skills from STAMS program

Teacher Guide

Math background explanations for content importance
Step-by-step lesson instruction and dialogue guidance
Answer analysis with correct/incorrect reasoning
Common error alerts and prevention strategies
Additional concept reinforcement activities
English Learner vocabulary support and language considerations

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