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• t <br /> • Teachers can significantly enhance mathematics learning by adopting cooperative learning. <br /> • Teachers can change their classroom management and motivation strategies to improve <br /> • student outcomes. <br /> • Professional development works. <br /> • The evidence did not support the idea that different curricula give different outcomes in terms <br /> • of mathematics achievement. <br /> • There is limited evidence in elementary schools—and even less evidence in middle and high <br /> • schools—that CAI math programs are effective. <br /> Elementary Math Programs Highly Rated <br /> Program Type Description Contact/Website <br /> Class wide Peer IP Pair learning approach in which Contact Charles Greenwood <br /> Tutoring children take turns as teacher and at greenwood@ku.edu <br /> learner. <br /> Missouri IP Program focusing on active teaching, No contact information <br /> Mathematics classroom management, and available. <br /> Program motivation. <br /> Peer Assisted IP Structured pair learning strategy in Website: <br /> Learning which children take turns as teachers www.kc.vanderbilt.edu/pals <br /> Strategies (PALS) and learners. <br /> Student Teams- IP Structured cooperative learning Website: <br /> Achievement program in which students work in 4- www.successforall.or> <br /> b <br /> Divisions(now member teams. Contact: <br /> disseminated as powerteaching@successforall <br /> PowerTeaching: org <br /> Mathematics) <br /> TAI Math IP/M Cooperative learning program in which Contact Brent Farmer, <br /> C students work on individualized Charlesbridge Publishing, <br /> materials in 4-member teams. 800-225-3214,or <br /> bfarmer@charlesbridge.com <br /> Everyday Math was rated "Limited Effectiveness <br /> Note IP is Instructional Process Programs which is an approach to teaching rather than a set of books or <br /> Computer Aided Instruction (CAI) <br />