Math BSI Overview

Throughout the school year, students meet one-on-one with their teacher to do a brief progress check on their individual math goals (skills). The results inform teachers of what students have learned, and what students need to be taught next.

A student’s eligibility for BSI math services is determined after reviewing data from the BSI Diagnostic assessment(s), the I-Ready Diagnostic assessment(s), and teacher feedback.

If your child is found eligible for services, you will be contacted by the curriculum department.

Building Fact Fluency

Fluency has three components:

• Efficiency- children need to have a quick way to obtain the answer.

• Accuracy- they need to get the right answer.

• Flexibility- if they cannot figure it out, they have another way to approach the problem.

Building Fluency Through Number Sense

The four number sense relationships we focus on are:

• Spatial Relationships- recognizing how many without counting by seeing a visual pattern.

• One and two more, one and two less- this is not the ability to count on two or count back two, but instead knowing which numbers are one or two less or more than any given number.

• Benchmarks of 5 and 10- ten plays such an important role in our number system (and two fives make up 10), children must know how numbers relate to 5 and 10.

• Part-Part-Whole- seeing a number as being made up of two or more parts.