Badger Math Curriculum
Badger Math is an ACT-aligned, mastery-focused high school math curriculum designed to build strong numeracy, procedural skill, conceptual understanding, and real-world application. Each course integrates algebra, geometry, probability, and statistics rather than isolating them into separate classes. This structure helps students build a deeper, more connected understanding of mathematics over time while ensuring mathematical content is developmentally appropriate.
What is Badger Math?
Badger Math is a fully integrated high school math curriculum built by experienced Wisconsin educators. It emphasizes long-term learning through space-time instruction, daily routines, and standards-based assessments. Content spirals intentionally across the school year so students revisit essential skills in strategic intervals, strengthening both confidence and retention.
Integrated Course Pathway
Badger Math includes four integrated courses that blend algebra, geometry, probability, statistics, and real-world applications. Students progress through increasingly rigorous ACT skill bands that prepare them for college and career readiness.
Badger Math is built on the ACT College and Career Readiness Standards, which group math skills into score bands that show what students know and what they’re ready to learn next. Each course follows a Review–Focus–Secondary structure: reviewing the previous band, focusing on the current band, and introducing the next. This creates a clear, research-based pathway that supports growth, builds confidence, and prepares students for college and career readiness.
Daily Structure and Instructional Routines
Each class is built around a predictable instructional routine that helps students settle quickly into learning and stay engaged. Lessons start with warm-ups, numeracy skills, progress through focused skill development and procedural knowledge, and then move into applied practice. This reliable structure reduces cognitive load, boosts confidence, and supports the development of a strong mathematical identity.
Assessments
Badger Math includes separate assessments for each individual standard, providing clear data on student mastery. In addition, quarterly cumulative benchmark assessments revisit all previously taught content, reinforcing long-term retention and preparing students for college and career readiness exams.
Standards-Based Assessments
Quarterly benchmark assessments are cumulative by design, giving students multiple opportunities to retrieve and apply previously learned material. This repeated retrieval strengthens long-term retention and supports meaningful, lasting understanding. The results of these assessments highlight areas for reteaching and provide reliable data to guide instruction.