Parent Information

I am excited about assisting students in the area of mathematics as the Math Interventionist at Lake Forest Elementary School.  Math intervention is small group instruction that focuses on the effective use of evidence-based instructional approaches, resources, and strategies to support students who have gaps in their math knowledge.  Students are selected for math intervention based on need.  Encourage your students to work hard and be proud of their accomplishments. 

Mathematical Fluency Expectations by Grade Level

Kindergarten: Fluently add and subtract within 5 (e.g. 2 + 3 = 5 and 5 – 2 = 3).

Grade 1: Fluently add and subtract within 10 (e.g. 4 + 6 = 10 and 10 – 4 = 6).

Grade 2: Fluently add and subtract within 20 using mental strategies.  

By end of grade 2, know from memory all sums of two one-digit numbers (e.g. 9 + 8 = 17).

By the end of grade 2, know from memory related subtraction facts of sums of two one-digit numbers (e.g. 17 – 9 = 8).

Grade 3:  Fluently multiply and divide within 100, using strategies such as the relationship between multiplication and division (e.g., knowing that 8 x 5 = 40, one knows 40 ÷ 5 = 8) or properties of operations. By the end of grade 3, know from memory all products of two one-digit numbers (e.g. 9 x 8 = 72).

Grade 4: Know multiplication facts and related division facts through 12 X 12 (e.g. 12 x 11 = 132; and 132 ÷ 12 = 11).

Grade 5: Students are expected to know and apply the math facts for all four operations as they solve problems involving multi-digit whole number calculations as well as fractional and decimal operations.

www.weareteachers.com/what-is-math-intervention/ 

Parents: Please read the "Unity" poem below. I think it demonstrates the type of environment we should provide your child.  Education is truly a joint effort!

Unity

I dreamed I stood in a studio

And watched two sculptors there,

The clay they used was a young child's mind

And they fashioned it with care.

One was a teacher;

the tools she used were books and music and art;

One was a parent 

with a guiding hand and a gentle loving heart.

And when at last their work was done

They were proud of what they had wrought

For the things they had worked into the child

Could never be sold or bought.

And all agreed each would have failed

If each had worked alone

For behind the parent stood the school,

and behind the teacher stood the home.