Transform how your students think about mathematics.
What is CBI Mathematics?
CBI Mathematics is a complete curriculum for teaching K–6 mathematics through Concept-Based Inquiry.
It combines ready-to-use units, adaptable resources, and professional learning modules, giving teachers the tools, confidence, and flexibility to create rich, inquiry-driven lessons.
Schools can integrate it into their existing programs without rebuilding from the ground up, ensuring a smooth transition and immediate classroom impact.
Three components of CBI Mathematics
The CBI Mathematics package helps your school unlock the power of Concept-Based teaching–combining a Scope and Sequence, ready-to-teach resources, and expert support your school needs to succeed.
Whether you’re starting small or implementing school-wide, we are on-hand to help you bring Concept-Based Mathematics to life in your classrooms.
Scope and sequence
Your school’s foundation for Concept-Based Mathematics.
A perpetual license gives your school lifetime access to the core of CBI Mathematics: our K–6 Scope & Sequence. No subscriptions. No renewals. Just a solid, future-ready curriculum framework that’s yours to keep.
The K–5 Scope and Sequence outlines a clear progression of conceptual understandings, knowledge, and skills across seven strands:
- Number and Number Sense
- Number Operations
- Partitioning
- Pattern and Function
- Measurement
- Shape and Space
- Statistics and Probability
The number strands (Number and Number Sense, Number Operations, and Partitioning) follow eight developmental phases, while the remaining strands are organized by grade level.
The Grade 6 Scope and Sequence continues this progression across five strands:
- Number
- Proportional Reasoning
- Algebra
- Statistics and Probability
- Spatial Sense
The number strands (Number and Proportional Reasoning) follow the phases progression, while the remaining strands are organized by grade level.
Online portal
The full curriculum, ready to teach tomorrow.
- Ready-to-Use Mathematics Units. Pre-planned units and inquiry-based learning engagements designed to support students in looking for patterns to build conceptual understandings.
- Assessment Tools & Pre-Assessments. Evaluate what students understand before each unit to meet students where they are and build on their understanding.
- Printable & Digital Teaching Resources. Supporting materials that let you adjust the level of practice and challenge to meet your students’ needs in every lesson.
- Strategy Talks.Embed 10–15 minute conversations that develop mental math strategies, complete with examples and visual models.
- Built-in Differentiation with Stretch & Support Prompts. Meet every learner where they are with guided scaffolds and extension opportunities.
- Self-Paced Teacher Training Modules. Build confidence with on-demand PD, starting with the Quick Start Course and Teaching in Phases Courses.
PD plus
Personalized support to help your team thrive.
PD Plus connects your school with a dedicated CBI Mathematics Coach, providing hands-on support to guide implementation and boost teacher confidence from day one.
Free for Your First Year
When your school joins with a team of 6 or more teachers, PD Plus is included at no cost for the first year as part of our Implementation Package.
Your coach will provide:
- Expert Onboarding & Strategic Implementation Support. Get set up for success with personalized onboarding and a clear implementation roadmap tailored to your school’s needs.
- 10 Coaching Sessions. We will work closely with your Curriculum Leadership Team through ten focused, high-impact coaching sessions.
- Three Virtual Whole-Staff Meetings. Your coach will lead three dynamic virtual meetings to engage and support your entire teaching team.
- Ready-to-Use Staff Meeting Series. Gain access to a complete set of professionally designed staff meeting materials—perfect for leaders to run independently with confidence.
Want to continue the momentum?
After the first year, you can renew your PD Plus partnership annually for just €2000.
Key Features
A done-for-you K-6 curriculum
CBI Mathematics includes everything teachers and schools need to implement Concept-Based Inquiry in mathematics from K–6. It offers a comprehensive curriculum, fully developed units and lessons, and a suite of assessment tools.
Teachers are supported with ready-to-use conceptual frameworks, transferable generalizations, and guiding questions that bring depth, clarity, and coherence to every stage of planning and instruction.
No textbooks
In many classrooms, teaching is dominated by the need to “get through the textbook.” Every page becomes a checkpoint, leaving little room to respond to the actual needs of students.
CBI Mathematics is designed to shift that pressure. Instead of outdated textbooks that demand rigid pacing, our platform offers dynamic and adaptable learning that allows you to respond to the needs of your classroom.
You’re not bound to a sequence, you’re empowered to adjust, enrich, or pause for deeper exploration. With supporting materials that scale practice and challenge, you can tailor every lesson to match where your students are, not where the textbook says they should be.
Expert support
Schools don’t have to piece it together themselves. The curriculum is supported by PD workshops and onboarding to help teachers feel confident, equipped, and inspired from day one.
Join PD Plus (included free in your first year), and your school will be partnered with a dedicated CBI Mathematics Coach to support teachers and curriculum leaders in implementing CBI Mathematics in your school.
Global Focus
In developing Concept-Based Inquiry Mathematics, we studied the scope and sequence, and standards across the English National Curriculum, Common Core, Australian Curriculum, New Zealand National Curriculum, and Ontario Curriculum.
We compared these with brain research and tracked the introduction of concepts at age and developmental appropriateness.
While it’s designed with IB PYP schools in mind, CBI Mathematics is flexible enough to support any inquiry or concept-driven primary program, including bilingual, dual-curriculum, and national settings.
What’s in the Online Portal
CBIM Scope & Sequence
At the core of CBI Mathematics is a comprehensive K–6 scope and sequence that outlines the key conceptual understandings, knowledge, and skills across seven strands: Number & Number Sense, Number Operations, Partitioning, Pattern & Function, Measurement, Shape & Space, and Statistics & Probability.
Learning Engagements
We’ve done the planning for you. Each unit includes ready-to- use learning engagements designed around guiding questions that drive conceptual understanding through inquiry. Instead of starting from scratch, you can focus your time and energy on resources and delivery.
Strategy Talks
Strategy Talks are short, structured conversations designed to build students’ mental calculation skills. Delivered in just 10–15 minutes, these sessions use problem strings and visual models to help students uncover mathematical strategies. Everything you need to run them is included.
Stretch & Support
Every student learns differently. Our Stretch & Support prompts help you differentiate learning by providing targeted engagements that either reinforce or extend key concepts, meeting students exactly where they are.
Pre-assessments
Understanding where students are starting is key to effective teaching. Our pre-assessments help surface prior knowledge and misconceptions, giving teachers a clear picture of what students know, understand, and can do before new learning begins.
The problem with traditional mathematics teaching:
In many classrooms, mathematics is still taught through rigid textbooks and step-by-step procedures. It’s a system that emphasizes answers over understanding.
While it may cover content, this approach often fails to spark curiosity or confidence. Instead, it creates reluctant learners who see mathematics as something to endure, not explore. They stop asking questions. They lose the sense that mathematics is relevant, interesting, or even possible for them.
Learn how Concept-Based Mathematics solves that problem.
Making an impact
How Concept-Based Mathematics is helping teachers and students around the world.
Who it’s for?
CBI Mathematics is designed for:
- Leaders seeking a future-ready mathematics solution
- International Baccalaureate schools
- Inquiry-based schools
- Teachers who want to move beyond rote learning
- Schools ready to align mathematics instruction with conceptual learning
Whether you’re an individual teacher or a whole-school team, Concept-Based Mathematics supports flexible implementation.
CBI Mathematics Pricing
Upgrade to PD plus
All the features of Individual access plus:
- Expert implementation support from a dedicated CBIM Facilitator
€1,500
Annually per group/team with 1-5 classes
School Access (6 or more classes)
- Annual license
- Access to the CBIM online portal with a full K-6 curriculum, with learning engagements
- Strategy Talks, assessment tools, differentiation support
- Training videos, analytics, and curriculum webinars
- Access to the CBIM Scope & Sequence
Upgrade to PD plus
- Expert implementation support from a dedicated CBIM Facilitator
- Includes 3 x staff meetings
€2,000
Annually per school
First year package deal
Save €2000
in your first year with CBIM.
Includes:
- Everything in School Access
- PD Plus included free for the first year (value €2,000)
- Discounted pricing available for groups and schools
Built by educators, working in classrooms.
CBI Mathematics is developed by a global team of curriculum experts and classroom teachers, with over 6,000 hours of development and 3 years piloting in schools around the world.
This innovative approach to teaching is transforming mathematics education in schools around the world. And you can join them.
