One of those changes was the change of the elementary school curricula, which had been accepted in the 2004-2005 academic year.
The goal of the MathCamp program is to provide teachers with a wide variety of strategies and activities that will prove successful in meeting today's standards-based elementary mathematics curricula.
The problems covered in the text are broad and deep in scope, and introduce topics now commonly omitted from elementary school curricula, such as prime numbers, counting, and probability.
Just a few years ago, there were no elementary literacy curricula designed to build students' knowledge.
In order to allow using the activities in other countries, we also contextualize them in elementary school curricula from several European, American, and African countries.
Similar contents are present in elementary school curricula of other countries, namely Brazil, United Kingdom, France, United States of America, Canada, or Mozambique, and therefore the same activities can potentially be used in many different countries.
The good news is that in the past several years, five or six elementary literacy curricula have been developed that do build students' knowledge, and more and more districts and schools are adopting them.
Furthermore, by recognizing human diversity, children may develop a better knowledge of themselves, a competence that is commonly required in elementary school curricula of several countries (Additional file 1).
Although natural selection is not explicitly part of elementary school curricula here considered, this process can be easily explored under several contents such as adaptation, species features and its relation to the environment, energy transfer (trophic chains) and other ecological interactions between species, and the impacts of human activities (Additional file 1 and references therein).
