Interventions for Math-Challenged Students in Middle and High School: The Full Toolkit

Here are resources from Jim Wright's full-day workshop, Interventions for Math-Challenged Students in Grades 3-12: The Full Toolkit:

• PowerPoint: Interventions for Math-Challenged Students in Middle and High School: The Full Toolkit
• Handout 1 (Main Handout)
• Handout 2 (Workbook)

• Definitions: Core Instruction, Academic Interventions, Accommodations, Modifications

Strong Math Instruction. What elements of strong math instruction optimize learning for diverse students?

• What Works Clearinghouse Practice Guide: (April 2009): Assisting Students Struggling with Mathematics: Response to Intervention (RtI) for Elementary and Middle Schools
• What Works Clearinghouse Practice Guide: (May 2012): Improving Mathematical Problem Solving in Grades 4 Through 8

Interventions for Math. What are examples of classroom interventions to address math deficits?

• Math Facts: Incremental Rehearsal (Constant Time Delay): Flash Cards

• Math Facts (and Spelling) Intervention: Cover-Copy-Compare

• Math Facts: Self-Administered Folding-In (SAFI) Technique

• Cover-Copy-Compare Interactive Worksheet: Horizontal Math Facts
• Cover-Copy-Compare Interactive Worksheet: Vertical Math Facts
• Work Completion: Problem-Interspersal Technique

• STAR: Mnemonic for Completing Word Problems
• Geometry: Tracing Problems to Enhance Understanding

• Reciprocal Peer Tutoring in Math Computation With Constant Time Delay
• Math Graphics: Question-Answer Relationships (QARs)

• Math Vocabulary: Classwide Vocabulary Tutoring
• Self-Management: Customized Math Self-Correction Checklists

• Managing Academic Anxiety Through an Antecedent Writing Activity

Individualizing Math Supports. What are examples of differentiation and scaffolding to make math assignments accessible to students?

• Accommodations Finder. This free app allows teachers to browse academic accommodation ideas and select those that would benefit an individual student, small group, or entire class.

Math and Data. What are ways to collect data to monitor math interventions?

• FREE APP: Self-Check Behavior Checklist Maker. Use this application to create and print behavior checklists.

 CBM Math Computation Resources:

• Math Computation: Directions & Norms

• Math Worksheet Generator: Intervention Central
• SuperKids.com Math Worksheet Generator

Documenting Math Interventions. How can a teacher write down a math intervention in a streamlined way to share with others?

• Tier 1/Classroom Intervention Planning Sheet (Google Docs)

• Learning Contracts 
• Version 1: Interactive Learning Contract|Example of a Completed Learning Contract
• Version 2: Interactive Learning Contract|Example of a Completed Learning Contract