PLATO’s online math curriculum for elementary students focuses on helping young math students develop mathematical understanding – to think about the world using mathematical concepts and idea. Educational experts agree that elementary education forms the basis for success (or failure) in high school algebra. PLATO’s online math curriculum supports early learners in developing the crucial skills needed to master algebraic thinking.

By implementing PLATO’s rigorous, engaging online math instruction, teachers can help elementary math students to:

• Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them
• Reason abstractly and quantitatively
• Attend to precision
• Look for and make use of structure
• Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning