CPM History
Names & Players
Memorable Problems
Acronyms
CPM by the Numbers
100

This is the year CPM official began.

What is 1989?

100

This is the Director of Curriculum & Assessment.

Who is Karen Wootton?

100

This problem has students measuring how high they can reach when seated, to make sure they don't lose their hands in a roller coaster accident.

What is Newton's Revenge?

100

The acronym is CPM.

What is the acronym for College Preparatory Mathematics?

100

This is the number of writers in the C&A department.

What is 9?

200

Judy Kysh, Elaine Kasamatis, and Tom Sallee.

Who are the founders of CPM?

200

This is the Director of Professional Learning.

Who is Sharon Rendon?

200

This problem has students using Newton's Law of Cooling to determine the Sideroad Slasher’s latest victim's time of death.

What is the Case of the Cooling Corpse?

200

The acronym is C&A.

What is the acronym for Curriculum and Assessment?

200

This is the number of days of free workshops CPM offers to schools just adopting CPM and in Phase 1 of the Learning Progression.

What is 8?

300

An Eisenhower Grant, not an NSF grant.

What is the type of grant that initially funded CPM?

300

This is CPM's Executive Director.

Who is Elizabeth Coyner?

300

To motivate using data, 6th grade students start the year by watching a video of this event that has taken place in California for more than 80 years. 

What is the Calaveras County frog jumping contest?

300

The acronym is TRC.

What is the acronym for the Teacher Research (or Redesign) Corps?

300

This is the number of Phases in CPM's Learning Progression.

What is 3?

400

This was the official title of the Eisenhower Grant that first funded CPM.

What is "CPM: Change From Within"?

400

This person was the Executive Director before Elizabeth Coyner.

Who is Brian Hoey?

400

These two problems from different courses, have similar mathematics, and plant eating animals. 

What are the Grazing Goat and the Zoe and the Poison Weed problems?

400

The acronym is I&I. 

What is the acronym for Inspirations & Ideas?

400

This is the total number of eBooks CPM has.

What is 43?

500

This was the official name of the SECOND Eisenhower grant to further fund CPM.

What is "CPM: Change Through Assessment"?

500

This person was the Director of Curriculum before Karen Wootton.

Who is Michael Kassarjian?

500

In this problem, Casey is on her way to visit Horace Mann University. 

What is George Washington's Nose?

500

The acronym is ABP-V.

What is the acronym for the Academy of Best Practices for Veteran CPM teachers?

500

This is the number of states that has at least one school using CPM.

What is 49?