Integrating Fluency Practice, Mathematics, Volume 1
According to the National Research Council (2001), mathematical fluency allows students to carry out procedures with flexibility, accuracy, efficiency, and appropriateness. It is a key component of mathematical proficiency, especially when combined with conceptual understanding, strategic competence, reasoning, and a productive disposition or the inclination to see oneself as able to learn mathematics.
This supplemental resource features collections of fluency activities supporting instruction aligned to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills. Activities are designed to engage students while increasing mathematical proficiency, including computational and procedural fluency. Each fluency practice activity takes approximately 10 minutes to facilitate as a regular part of daily mathematics core instruction, intervention, or tutoring sessions.
Each activity includes tasks or prompts for the teacher to use when implementing the activity with students. Display pages are provided for most tasks. The teacher may choose to display the tasks using a digital projection device for whole class display, print copies for small group display, or print copies for individual students. The tasks or prompts provide a starting place for these activities. Teachers are encouraged to supplement the tasks or prompts based on the needs of the students and available time.
ACCELERATED INTERVENTION, ALGEBRA I
When time is short and needs are great, this resource provides focused acceleration of learning and relearning.
How do we reteach students who have already experienced all the interventions we have to offer? How do we focus learning on targeted areas of need when students have already received instruction? We take a deeper dive into the mathematics with a narrower focus. Each module in this series has three lessons that offer these deep dives. Each module also has a fourth lesson that brings understanding to the surface by connecting the mathematics learned and relearned in the first three lessons. Available in four modules. $25 per module.
The Engaging Mathematics, Volume I series provides meaningful activities and problem-solving situations that can be used as warm-ups, as engagement activities for teacher-developed lessons, as support for retention of skills and concepts, or as short formative assessments. The series includes hands-on activities, rigorous problem-solving situations, vocabulary development activities, and writing prompts. Student expectations from the TEKS are addressed in a variety of formats.
Available for kindergarten, grades 1–8, Algebra I and II, Geometry, and Precalculus. Price: $45 per grade level