Where do you start with math intervention? Do your students need math intervention? Do they need to know grade level math skills? Do they lack basic understanding of concepts? What math skills do you want your students to know and master? These are all important questions to ask yourself before starting any interventions. Math intervention with your students can be an overwhelming task, but when you simplify the process and do it in a meaningful way, you can have success.
10 Math Intervention Strategies
Let’s look at 10 tips for making math intervention work in your classroom now. We’ll go over how to implement each one and only focus on the strategies that work.
#1 Organization
Be organized about your math intervention. Find out what skills your students should know. Make an organized list of the grade level math standards to review. See which ones students know and focus your intervention on skills they don’t know yet.
#2 One Skill a Day
Teach, practice, or review just one math standard every day. Pick one standard and teach or reteach the skill. Practice, practice, practice, and review this skill.
#3 Use a Calendar
Make a calendar and schedule your math interventions. When you write them down you’re intentional and they will happen. Plans don’t just happen, you make them happen. Be intentional. Set realistic goals for teaching, practicing, or reviewing with your students.
#4 Assessments
Assess your students skills informally. Pick only one skill to assess. Make it an informal assessment (for example an exit slip one question and do not grade it) you just want to know if they can solve the question. Do not take it for a grade in the gradebook.
#5 Small Groups
Provide weekly small group math sessions. Get your students in small groups and teach/reteach a math skill. Easy to do with math centers or math stations.
#6 Mini Lesson
Give 15 to 20 minute mini math lessons. It’s a refresher for students. Make it quick and easy to digest the material. Students can write notes, do a practice page, or interactive notebook activity.
#7 Assign Review
By assigning math stations or centers for review students focus on one skill. They rotate between the centers/stations to practice, apply, and problem solve in different ways.
#8 Limit the Number
Limiting the number of problems given for math interventions can be helpful to students who easy get overwhelmed. Choose 7-12 problems to work on. Give range of difficulty or just focus on practicing word problems.
#9 Plan your Focus
Maybe you need to do a one month intentional intervention and focus on key skills that your students need. Focus on skills they need but don’t know yet. Create a calendar plan of how you will review those skills in only a month.
#10 Evaluate Students
After the one month intentional intervention give your students an assessment based on the grade level skills/standards. See what they know now and if you need to review any other skills before the end of the year.
Additional Support for Math Intervention
Daily math interventions make it easy for you. Math intervention needs to be on going. Do check ups with your students to see what they know. Give informal assessments to measure their understanding of skills. This will ensure that they’re learning and on track daily.
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