This Comprehensive School Mathematics Program (CSMP) guide is divided into three major parts. The first, General Introduction, contains: (1) CSMP Viewpoint; (2) Program Description; (3) Guidelines for Evaluating the Program; (4) Commonly Asked Questions about the CSMP Curriculum and Suggested Answers, and (5) A Note to the Parents of CSMP Students. Part 2, The World of Numbers, opens with a suggested chronological order of lessons and an introduction that covers information about standard algorithms and notes on calculator use. Following this are chapters on: (1) Detective Stories and Composition; (2) Rational Numbers; (3) Hand-Calculator Puzzles; (4) Combinatorics; (5) Multiples and Divisors; (6) Division, and (7) Cartesian Graphs. The section concludes with an appendix on standard configurations and minicomputer plays. The final major part, Workbooks, presents a Workbook Progress Chart, and has sections that present answers to many of the various workbook problems. (MP)