This publication should help educators provide a mathematics program that emphasizes productive time on task and active involvement of students in mathematics activities. The focus on problem solving is stressed. Time allotments are stated, followed by descriptions of essential elements for kindergarten through grade 8: understanding numbers and place value; operations, properties, and uses of numbers; problem solving; measurement; geometry; graphing; probability and statistics; and calculators and computers. Essential elements of each secondary school mathematics course are then presented. The next section provides correlations of the essential elements to the Texas Educational Assessment of Minimum Skills tests. A scope-and-sequence chart is included, as are discussions of evaluation, reteaching and remediation, enrichment, assignment of teachers, and staff development. In the next section, the philosophy of the elementary and middle school mathematics programs is discussed, with recommended manipulative materials listed. The secondary school mathematics program is then considered, with philosophy, graduation requirements, approved courses, planning course offerings, guidelines for course sequencing, and honors courses discussed. Special student populations are next considered. Appendices contain position statements, references, and some suggested materials. (MNS)