Second, there would need to be adaptations to the Everyday Mathematics (EM)
curriculum used in the system. The EM curriculum is relatively scripted and lessons
are sequential and developmental. General objectives of a lesson could be used as a
starting point, but it was anticipated that it would be necessary to revise the lesson to
assure that student thinking was exposed and could be observed. We anticipated that
it would be necessary for the group to develop single research lessons that could be
inserted into the EM sequence. The teachers could identify concepts from EM they
felt were difficult to teach and difficult to learn and develop introductory research
lessons for those concepts