Marketing Toolkit

In this section you'll find handouts, articles, PowerPoint presentations and other marketing and communication tools to support your math outreach efforts. Most of what is included here is customizable so we encourage you to tailor fit as you need. We'll continue to update and refresh this section so please check back often for new ideas on promoting more math!

• The final version of the College Readiness Mathematics Standards is a four color, 22-page, double-sided 8.5" x 11" booklet that includes an in-depth prologue describing the standards development process and the Transition Mathematics Project, detailed descriptions of the eight process and content standards, four student attributes and a newly revised statement on the appropriate use of technology in mathematics.

• A version of the standards is available for .PDF download

• Order hard copy versions of the standards by completing the Standards Order Form
  

• Planning 4 Math Success: 4 Ways to Figure It Out With the help of some very engaged parents and the TMP local partnerships, a new parent brochure has been created for use by the local regions. (2-page, bifold, tripanel color brochure complementing the tone and look of TMP's online Math Lab and is designed for ease of duplication and dissemination. Please print / copy as needed and share Planning 4 Math Success with your students and their parents. - 1.5MB.)

Order hard copy versions of the Planning 4 Math Success brochure by completing the Order Form

• Why Math? Increase Your Chances for Future Success (Double-sided 8.5" x 14" b/w flier complementing the tone and look of the Got Math? brochure and is designed for ease of duplication and dissemination. Please print / copy as needed and share Why Math? with your students, colleagues and others needing up-to-date information on math - 1 MB.)

• ¿Por Que Matematicas? Aumente El Exito En Su Futuro - 628 KB

• Got Math? Multiply Your Options for the Future (2-page, bifold, tripanel color brochure - 1 MB)

• ¿Sabes Matematicas? Multiplica las Opciones Para tu Futuro (Got Math? Spanish edition, 2-page, bifold, tripanel color brochure - 1 MB)

   

• TMP-Designed Math Outreach Presentations - We wil be offering 4 versions of this largest and most comprehensive power point presentation. Each is designed to support your outreach efforts byTMP partners, school administrators, and teacher when addressing parents and parent advocacy groups. Please feel free to integrate any or all of these slides and video clips into your own presentation slides. You will also find here a script, handouts, resources and answers to frequently asked questions that can be utitlized fully or in part.
  • Full Length Version - Manually click through each slide - the script is embedded in the "notes" pages of the powerpoint slides
  • 10-Minute Project Summary 
  • Public Service Announcement
  • Fully Automated Full-Length Version with Voiceover - coming soon

Script, Resources and Handouts

• Spokane Area Curriculum Collaboration Presentation

One-Page TMP Summary

TMP FAQs

What's needed for high schoolers to be ready for college

Why should high school students take math

TMP Student Focus Group Highlights

Newsletter for Education Leaders

Mathematics: the Gatekeeper Classes, Fall 2002, Dr. Susan Quattrociocchi (Information on Dr. Quattrociocchi can be found by visiting http://www.learningconnections.org/suzyq.)

Public Agenda Alert - Are Parents, Students Ready for More Math and Science?

New study examines role of testing in student transitions from K-12 to higher education, OSPI Press Release, November 26, 2002: WASL

Full Text of the WASL/Placement Test Study, Relationship Between the WASL and Placement Tests Used by Community and Technical Colleges (2002)

Trend NAEP Reports Math Scores Up for 9- and 13-Year-Olds; 17-Year-Olds Steady

Pre-College Course Taking by High School Graduates Who Attend Washington Community and Technical Colleges, Research Report 03-2, SBCTC

Pre-college enrollments in Washington's community and technical colleges: College-going and pre-college course taking for individual school districts and the state as a whole.

Pre-college enrollments at Washington's public baccalaureate colleges & universities

Boston.com

Colleges question MCAS success (6/26/2005)

Tacoma News Tribune:

From y-cubed to the GameCube: Math rules at Nintendo (4/24/2005)

Not always obvious to youths, math skills vital in adult world (4/24/2005)

Passing Algebra II serves as benchmark for high-wage jobs (4/24/2005)

Math adds up (4/24/2005)

Can’t do math? Hey, if a lobster can, so can you (4/4//2005)

Ed Week:

Math Emerges As Big Hurdle For Teenagers (3/23/2005)

Seattle Times:

"Math Gap" equals trouble for students heading for college (02/01/2006)

U.S. students lagging in math skills (12/7/2004)

Federal, state report cards vary widely on Oregon schools (12/7/2004)

New York Times (Registration Required):

U.S. students fare badly in international survey of math skills (12/7/2004)

What corporate America can't build: A sentence (12/7/2004)

The News Tribune

Colleges pick up slack on math(2/21/2007)

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