Full Description
Learn how to help K-8 students who struggle in math. Now in its second edition, this book provides a variety of clear, practical strategies that can be implemented right away to boost student achievement. Discover how to design lessons that work with struggling learners, implement math intervention recommendations from the Institute of Education Sciences Practice Guides, the National Center on Intensive Intervention, and CEC, use praise and self-motivation more effectively, develop number sense and computational fluency, teach whole numbers and fractions, increase students' problem-solving abilities, and more! This edition features an all-new overview of effective instructional practices to support academic engagement and success, ideas for intensifying instruction within tiered interventions, and a detailed set of recommendations aligned to both CCSSM and CEC/CEEDAR's High-Leverage Practices to help support students struggling to meet grade-level expectations. Extensive, current examples are provided for each strategy, as well as lesson plans, games, and resources.
Contents
Meet the Authors
Introduction
Chapter 1: Overview of Response to Intervention in Mathematics
What is Response to Intervention?
Models of Implementation
Summary
Chapter 2: Using Assessment to Make Instructional Decisions
Step 1: Problem Identification
Step 2: Problem Analysis
Step 3: Intervention Plan Development
Step 4: Plan Implementation
Step 5: Plan Evaluation
Summary
Chapter 3: Overview of Evidence-Based Practices for Teaching Mathematics
Evidence-Based Practices for the Core Curriculum
Interventions to Support Students who Struggle in Mathematics (Tiers 2 & 3)
Summary
Chapter 4: Setting the Stage: Increasing Motivation
Why Focus on Motivation?
Increasing Motivation by Creating Meaningful, Engaging Lessons
Using Self-Monitoring and Goal-Setting to Increase Motivation
Effective Use of Praise
Rewards
Summary
Chapter 5: Explicit and Systematic Instruction
Instructional Considerations for Struggling Learners
The Explicit Instruction Lesson
How Explicit Instruction Improves Motivation
Summary
Chapter 6: Concrete and Visual Representation
Research on the Concrete-Pictorial-Abstract (CPA) Sequence
Virtual Manipulatives
Recommendations for Implementing the CPA Sequence
Summary
Chapter 7: Developing Number Sense
Counting and Representing Whole Numbers
Magnitude Comparison
Place Value
Intensifying Instruction
Chapter 8: Operations with Whole Numbers: Addition and Subtraction
Developing Conceptual Understanding of Addition and Subtraction
Developing Computational Fluency with Basic Facts
Solving Multi-Digit Addition & Subtraction Problems
Intensifying Instruction During Interventions
Summary
Chapter 9: Operations with Whole Numbers: Multiplication and Division
Developing Conceptual Understanding of Multiplication
Understanding Division
Developing Fluency with Multiplication & Division Facts
Multi-Digit Multiplication Algorithms
Multi-Digit Division
Intensifying Instruction During Interventions
Summary
Chapter 10: Fact Fluency
Developing Strategies for Solving Basic Facts
Automaticity
Summary
Chapter 11: Representing Rational Numbers
Fractions
Decimals
Percent
Intensifying Instruction
Summary
Chapter 12: Problem-Solving
Problem Solving in the Core Curriculum (Tier 1)
Teaching Problem Solving During Interventions (Tier 2 & Tier 3)
Summary
Chapter 13: Conclusion: Using RtI to Improve Achievement in Mathematics
Selecting Materials for Core Instruction (Tier 1)
Selecting Materials for Interventions (Tiers 2 & 3)
Intensifying Instruction
Summary
References
