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Topic Area: Math Resource

  • Opening Math Routines

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    Opening Routines are short, quick opportunities that support productive mathematical thinking and encourage student discourse. These routines develop number sense, give all students opportunities to think creatively, build a community of mathematical thinkers, activate prior knowledge of skills and content, and provide access to all students.

  • Multiple Representations: Visual Representations

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    Visual representations help students understand what a number represents as well as recognize relationships between numbers. Using visuals, such as pictures, diagrams, and charts, allows for additional Speed of Processing time and enhances students’ understanding of mathematical concepts such as fractions, ratios, and geometric shapes.

  • Sense of Belonging Conversation Series: Implementing Think-Pair-Share

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    The Sense of Belonging series focuses on learner variability research and culturally responsive teaching practices. This resources provides a one page overview with examples for the process, resources, and next steps, involved in implementing this strategy.

  • Learning Disability Awareness Month Resource Catalog

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    Every day throughout the month of October, the Educating All Learners Alliance featured a partner resource across our social media accounts in recognition of Learning Disabilities Awareness Month. To support our educator and partner audiences, we are sharing the full  compilation of resources highlighted within the October Learning Disability Awareness Month Campaign. You can find…

  • Catching Up and Moving Forward: A discussion of findings from Zearn’s study on learning acceleration

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    Watch this webinar to explore the new national research study that finds promising evidence that learning acceleration works at scale. We’ll dig into the analysis of learning outcomes over the last two years of pandemic learning, across 600,000 students and over 5 million instructional decisions.

  • Students with Disabilities in Mathematics: Frequently Asked Questions

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    This document provides an overview of the characteristics of mathematics disability and presents evidence-based strategies to support students with mathematics disability and/or difficulty at all instructional levels. Importantly, the strategies outlined in this document are targeted at improving learning outcomes for the following student populations: • Students with a formal school identification of a specific…

  • Evidence-Based Specially Designed Instruction in Mathematics: Resource Guide

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    In an effort to enhance the performance of students with disabilities in the mathematics’ classrooms, this resource guide serves as a resource for educators, administrators, and parents to address the educational needs of students with mathematics disability and/or mathematics difficulty. This resource guide provides an overview of five evidence-based strategies that educators can utilize to…

  • Increasing Engagement in Math: Adapting Small Group Instruction at Learn4Life

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    This case study describes a special education teacher’s individualized approach to supporting students’ math learning needs at Learn4Life, an independent-study program for high school students throughout California.

  • Implementing a Professional Learning Model (PLM) to Improve Mathematics Teaching Webinar Series

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    This two-part webinar series builds the capacity of mathematics instructional leaders, coaches, and school administrators to design and implement a coherent professional learning model (PLM) to improve mathematics teaching. In this webinar series, REL Appalachia (REL AP) staff share evidence-based strategies and resources for implementing school- or district-level PLMs and monitoring success of teacher professional…