ABSTRACT

Learn how to help K–8 students who struggle in math. This book provides a variety of clear, practical strategies that can be implemented right away to boost student achievement. You will find out how to design lessons that work with struggling learners, implement the recommendations for math intervention from the What Works Clearinghouse, 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! Extensive examples are provided for each strategy, as well as lesson plans, games, and resources.

chapter

Introduction

chapter Chapter 1|7 pages

Overview of Response to Intervention in Mathematics

chapter Chapter 2|17 pages

Using Assessment to Make Instructional Decisions

chapter Chapter 4|18 pages

Setting the Stage: Increasing Motivation

chapter Chapter 5|23 pages

Explicit Instruction

chapter Chapter 6|13 pages

Concrete and Visual Representation

chapter Chapter 7|61 pages

Representing Whole Numbers

chapter Chapter 8|32 pages

Developing Computational Fluency with Basic Facts

chapter Chapter 9|32 pages

Representing Rational Numbers

chapter Chapter 10|26 pages

Problem Solving