The Tennessee State Curriculum is a standard guideline used in every classroom across the state of Tennessee in order to provide an exceptional standard for learning. The curriculum follows the state standards and is designed to develop a student's critical, reasoning and thinking skills.
URL: http://www.state.tn.us/education/ci/math/
URL: http://www.corestandards.org/

The middle school 6-8 grades in the mathematics department use Pearson materials implementing the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). The lesson goals are to develop problem solving skills, apply mathematics as communication, develop math reasoning, and make math connections. The students use this series to develop problem solving approaches to investigate and understand mathematical content, apply multi-step problems, model situations, and establish independent thinking related to deductive and inductive reasoning.

The middle school resource class incorporates TouchMath, TouchMoney, and TouchTime to develop students' math skills and apply them to real life. The use of manipulatives is used to help students work with patterns, money, and time. The curriculum is successful in the classroom with lower level learners of math.

Students in grades 3-8 take the Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program (TCAP) Achievement Test each spring. The Achievement Test is a timed, multiple choice assessment that measures skills in Reading, Language Arts, Mathematics, Science and Social Studies. Student results are reported to parents, teachers and administrators.
URL: http://www.meritsoftware.com/standardized_tests/TN.php

The Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) test is a computerized testing assessment for mathematics. When taking a map test, the difficulty of each question is based on how well a student answers all the previous questions. The test is tailored to an individual's current achievement level. This gives students a fair opportunity to show what they know and can do.
URL: http://www.nwea.org/products-services/computer-based-adaptive-assessments/map

The Stanford Achievement Test, 10th Edition (Stanford 10) is a widely used achievement test published by Harcourt Brace Educational Measurement. It was designed to measure achievement in the curriculum content commonly taught in grades 1 through 9 throughout the United States. This test is very widely used with deaf and hard of hearing students. The Stanford 10 has eight test levels that have been vertically equated so that scores are reported on a single scale for each subtest. These "scaled scores" allow comparisons of scores from different test levels and permit examination of longitudinal growth in achievement of individual students over time. Each test level was designed to measure curriculum content commonly taught (to hearing students) throughout the United States in specific grades in school.
URL: http://gri.gallaudet.edu/SAT/desc.html

Middle School projects are developed and applied when appropriate and meaningful to the curriculum. Projects give students the opportunity to learn how to collect data, organize data, use graphs, and display information in a graph format and make a connection to the world. Other projects, in the past, have also included creating origami designs on a large scale. Additionally, the students create geometric designs using newspaper. These projects help to develop and progress thinking in the area of geometry.

National Technical Institute for the Deaf at Rochester Institute of Technology hosts a middle school math competition for deaf and hard-of-hearing students only. The competition is held in Rochester, New York, in the spring of every school year. Deaf and hard-of-hearing students from all over the nation arrive on the campus of RIT and compete against each other using MathCounts material. A select group of students are chosen from the Tennessee School for the Deaf middle school to compete in this competition. The students prepare for the competition by participating in after-school study sessions during the months of February and March. The competition increases awareness in math related career fields for deaf and hard-of-hearing students and increases understanding and knowledge in the area of mathematics.
URL: http://www.ntid.rit.edu/prospective/mathcounts/#

All students participate in the middle school math competition. The competition creates an atmosphere of friendly competition for diverse learners in math. The competition supports applying and displaying peer level skills in the area of mathematics. The competition is divided into four areas: the sprint round, the target round, the team round, and the countdown round. The rounds focus on speed, accuracy, basic math facts, knowledge of word problems, math concepts, and team work. The students apply knowledge and skills that they have learned throughout the school year.

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