ABSTRACT
Guided math is a small-group instructional strategy that teaches students in their zone of proximal development around the priority standards. Guided math groups give teachers the time needed to work with students in a way that they can all learn. Guided math groups can be used to remediate, to teach on grade-level concepts, and to address the needs of students that are working beyond grade level. Guided math groups can be heterogeneous or homogeneous. It depends on what teachers are trying to do. Guided math groups can occur in all types of classrooms. Typically, they are part of a Math Workshop. In a Math Workshop there are three parts. Differentiating workstations helps to purposefully plan for the learning of all students. The fluency workstation games should be divided by strategy, for example students can be working on either make ten facts, doubles, or bridge ten facts, depending on what they need.
