Mathematics

Schedule student for additional math supports.

  • Use Flex Block to provide remediation on areas of need.

  • Support student in attending if possible after or before school help.

Review student data with student. Set goals and action plan with the student.

  • IXL provides additional practice in specific standards. Assist student in reviewing their data on IXL, setting goals, and developing action plan. See link for sample planning sheet to use with student.

Provide students with opportunities to build their own models and use mathematical tools for new concepts.

  • National Library of Virtual Manipulatives contains manipulatives and concept tutorials across the grade bands.

  • Desmos allows users to graph functions, plot data, evaluate equations, explore transformations, and much more.

  • GeoGebra is an interactive geometry tool. Users can create and visualize angles, triangles, circles, transformations, etc.

  • The Math Learning Center has 10 stand-alone Chrome apps for math manipulatives. These are virtual objects like number lines and blocks that kids can manipulate to understand math concepts. They also have a visual Partial Product Finder.

  • Model the use of a calculator as a tool to support problem solving. (Use TI-84+Emulator on the Smartboard to model the calculator.)

Build procedural fluency (facts, computation, vocabulary) and capacity for application and problem solving.

  • In Pearson Realize, Math XL provides additional practice with feedback and tutorials.

  • Assign specific IXL topics specific to student need based upon data.

  • Khanacademy provides personalized tutorials and practice problems, and then assign through classroom feature. Available to also check progress and mastery levels.

  • Virtualnerd and Brainpop includes a variety of helpful math tutorials. Assign prior to class to support students preview of the content. Assign after class to serve as a resource for students to review content at home as study tool or to support completion of homework.

  • Provide a formula sheet to students to support problem set solutions.

  • Use Quizlet to review vocabulary and concepts.

Provide opportunities for students to practice the academic and content area vocabulary of mathematics.

  • The textbook in the Realize platform provides access to accessible text. Math Accessible Students EBook-text size can be changed and can be read aloud such as SpeakIt and Read & Write using accessible text features.

  • Provide students with visual representations of math language.

  • Include a word wall in the classroom and refer to it as a resource with students.

  • Provide sentence frames for math talk moves.

  • Provide sentence starters to support math discussion.

  • Use movement and music to represent key ideas and vocabulary.

Provide for graphic organizers that highlight key concepts.

  • Support understanding of math concepts by using top-down webs to indicate relationships between concepts and vocabulary. See video to learn more about top down webs.

  • Link to Google Drawings bank of organizers.

Provide opportunity for computer assisted instruction in mathematics to provide additional practice.

  • IXL provides additional practice in specific standards. Assist student in reviewing their data on IXL, set goals, and develop action plan. See link for sample planning sheet to use with student.

  • Khanacademy provides personalized tutorials and practice problems, and then assign through classroom feature. Available to also check progress and mastery levels.

  • In Pearson Realize, Math XL provides additional practice with feedback and tutorials.

  • LearnZillion provides additional videos and intervention materials.

Model the use of talk moves including referring to anchor charts and sentence frames.

  • See resources for incorporating math talk moves.

  • Incorporate turn and talk into daily lesson.

  • Provide students sentence frames or stems.

  • Allow multiple opportunities for students to use a choral responses during a lesson.

Provide opportunity for students to move away from procedural math to analyzing problem solving situations.

  • Thinking blocks provide students an online platform to visualize problem solving situations.

  • Provide scaffolds or single point rubrics for DICE. See sample rubric for DICE and other resources.

  • Use lesson design of three act math to scaffold problem solving.

Provide opportunities to preview/review math concepts.

  • Use technology resources such as Khan Academy, IXL , and Pearson Realize, to provide opportunities for previewing new concepts and review of areas of need.

  • Flip the classroom so students have access to resources to review or preview concepts.