Math Pathway Protocol
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The multi-tiered system of support (MTSS) math pathway includes three levels of support: intensive, strategic, and benchmark. All students are screened using STAR assessment and progress is monitored throughout the year. Current students are screened during the winter screening (January - February) each year and students new to the district are screened throughout the academic year (August - May).
Middle school and high school students trending below the 35th percentile are administered additional math assessments to determine placement in one of the following levels of support:
- Benchmark - Trending between 35th - 99th percentile on STAR
- Enrolled in core math
- Strategic - Trending below the 35th percentile on STAR and below proficient on other diagnostic assessments
- Enrolled in core math and a targeted math intervention
- Intensive - Trending below the 20th percentile on STAR and significant deficits in math skills
- Enrolled in alternate core math course
- Benchmark - Trending between 35th - 99th percentile on STAR
Middle School Math Interventions
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AddVantage Math Recovery (AVMR)
AddVantage Math Recovery (AVMR) supports foundational learning of numeracy concepts.
Foundational learning of whole number topics such as number words and numerals, structuring numbers, addition and subtraction, and topics that affect the development of future mathematical understanding. The topics and domains covered often appear later on as holes in understanding for older struggling students.
Expand and deepen knowledge and understanding of the mathematical development for all students by implementing diagnostic assessments for multiplication and division and place value understanding.
Explore how students develop concepts and strategies with fractions to support algebraic reasoning and applying operations.
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Connecting Math Concepts
Connecting Math Concepts emphasizes key mathematical concepts (the big ideas) that make it easier for students to learn math. Through highly explicit and systematic instruction, the program teaches explicit strategies that all students can learn and apply, strikes a balance between computation and problem solving for better overall comprehension of math, provides the practice needed to achieve procedural mastery and depth of understanding, and helps students make connections among related concepts and across daily instructional activities.
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TransMath
TransMath is a comprehensive math intervention curriculum that targets middle and high school students who lack the foundational skills necessary for entry into algebra and are two or more years below grade-level in math. TransMath deepens conceptual understanding and builds problem solving proficiency through the use of explicit instructions and multi-sensory strategies, embeds lesson-by-lesson models to support teacher preparation and strengthen teacher’s content knowledge, facilitates whole class interactive-learning by providing access to digital tools to increase the opportunities for mathematical discourse and peer learning, and provides students and teachers with eBook access to support their learning and provide greater interaction between the student and the teacher.
