Scott Foresman

Investigations in Number, Data, and Space, 2nd Edition © 2008
Grades K–5

Mazer’s Role

In this highly complex project, Mazer translated third-party raw content into manuscript for 16,000 pages in five components across six grades. Final products were delivered in less than 10 months, with teacher edition and ancillary development concurrent with and sometimes preceding student edition development. Tight coordination among our editorial, design, and production departments allowed us to successfully execute this Herculean effort. Superb management on the part of our editorial and project management teams ensured timely delivery and client satisfaction.

Houghton Mifflin

Mathematics Intervention: Knowing Mathematics (grades 4–6) and MathSteps (grades K–7)—California
Student and teacher editions

Mazer’s Role

For this product revamp, Mazer constructed a total realignment of client-generated correlations and preexisting product to create a new California student edition. Our editorial team worked from tearsheets, making revisions, expanding some areas with new text, and contracting others to better fit the client’s overall vision. For the accompanying teacher edition, we developed a new alternative teaching apparatus for each lesson.

Wright Group / McGraw-Hill

Everyday Mathematics Navigator for New York City Schools
Teacher ancillary

Mazer’s Role

Mazer generated this specialized ancillary product, targeted to helping teachers differentiate instruction by capitalizing on materials already present in the Everyday Math product for grades 1–6. For each lesson, our editorial group created activities for English language learners and lesson adaptations for differentiated learners, as well as adapting other content where useful and appropriate. In the final phase, our editors shepherded the pages through production.

Houghton Mifflin

Precalculus with Limits © 2007 National and Texas editions
Teacher edition

Mazer’s Role

Mazer constructed, updated, and customized materials for the teacher edition wrap, interleaf, and index of this college-level product. Working with nearly 1,000 pages of client-supplied InDesign files, our production team engineered new Quark templates before composing pages. After setting reduced student edition pages and adding annotations, Mazer supplied print-ready PDFs to the client.

Glencoe

California Algebra Readiness: Concepts, Skills, and
Problem Solving © 2008
Student and teacher editions

Mazer’s Role

During the development phase, Mazer’s Math team collaborated with the client to write student and teacher components of this California program. For visual stimulus, Mazer provided two art specs per page of new manuscript and an independent answer check. Finally, an editorial review process throughout the composition phase, including an independent answer check, ensured the high quality of the finished product.

Steck-Vaughn

Achieve It! © 2004 National editions and state books
Grades 3–8 reading/language arts and mathematics test
preparation program

Mazer’s Role

For this program, Mazer conducted an extensive analysis of state reading and math curriculum standards to create a thorough scope and sequence of instruction. Along with a team of skilled item writers and experienced passage authors, Mazer developed pupil editions, wraparound teacher editions, and activity cards to help students prepare for standardized testing. For the state books, Mazer’s editors and designers analyzed state standards, released test samples, and provided other materials for New York, Texas, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Indiana. Using this research, Mazer developed state-specific math and reading/language arts Achieve It! pupil and teacher editions that provide instruction and practice in an environment that simulates state achievement tests for grades 3–8.

College Board

SpringBoard Mathematics
Item writing for high-stakes testing and Level 3 (middle school)
online product

Mazer’s Role

Within a dramatically brief six-week time frame, Mazer wrote and edited 700 items, answer rationales, and rubrics for College Board’s sixth-grade and seventh-grade mathematics assessment. Mazer painstakingly correlated items to state standards and to standards and performance indicators developed by College Board. As the project continued, Mazer’s math editorial team copyedited roughly 1,900 items that appear as online content for this program, rewriting nearly one third of those. As a result of Mazer’s diligence, educators may interpret performance on the items as an index of students’ understanding and progress toward college preparedness.

Houghton Mifflin College

Larson Math Precalculus with Limits © 2007
Grade 11/12 teacher edition

Mazer’s Role

Showcasing an impressive breadth of math content capabilities, Mazer created teacher’s edition materials to facilitate use of a college-level precalculus text in the high school classroom. The teacher’s edition includes innovative strategies for teaching complex material, abundant advanced math activities, and supplemental precalculus math problems. Unlike typical math projects undertaken by educational developers, this full-service endeavor required a superior level of math content knowledge from Mazer editors and freelance writers as well as a greater level of precision from on-staff and freelance technical artists, designers, and production artists.

Texas Instruments

Explorations series
Activity books for graphing calculators

Mazer’s Role

Working effectively in cooperative relationships with the authors, Mazer edited and produced this series of middle school and high school classroom activity books. By evaluating and revising the books’ activities, which involve practical applications of the TI-83 and TI-84 families of graphing calculators, Mazer editors created engaging, interactive assignments that make optimal use of handheld technology.

Education Development Center and
Pearson Learning Group

Lenses on Learning: Supervision: Focusing on Mathematical
Thinking © 2006
Facilitator and participant books for professionals administrating mathematics curricula in grades K–8

Mazer’s Role

The Education Development Center and Pearson Learning Group collaborated on this extensive professional enrichment program for administrators of mathematics curricula. Working as the project’s developmental editors, Mazer’s project management and editorial teams skillfully navigated the communications challenges posed by the simultaneous involvement of two clients. In editing the 350-page manuscript for this installment of the program, Mazer recognized that the original document would be more effective as two components: a facilitator’s book and a participant’s book. In addition to instituting this revision and making other strategic edits, Mazer designed and produced both books. Under tight time constraints, Mazer’s editorial, design, and production teams successfully introduced a quality learning tool for professionals in the mathematics education field.