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Graphic Organizers. Word webs, Venn diagrams, tables, and other visual supports provide structures that illustrate relationships between mathematical facts, concepts, words, or ideas. Graphic organizers can be used to support students with organizing thoughts and ideas, planning problem solving approaches, visualizing ideas, sequencing information, or comparing and contrasting ideas.
Brain Breaks. Brain breaks are short, structured, 2–3 minute movement breaks taken in between activities, or to break up a longer activity (approximately every 20–30 minutes during a class period). Brain breaks are a quick, eUective way of refocusing and re-energizing the physical and mental state of students during a lesson. Brain breaks have also been shown to positively impact student concentration and stress levels, resulting in more time spent engaged in mathematical problem solving. This universal support is beneRcial for all students, but especially those with ADHD.
Practice Problems
Each lesson includes an associated set of practice problems. Teachers may decide to assign practice problems for homework or for extra practice in class; they may decide to collect and score it or to provide students with answers ahead of time for self-assessment. It is up to teachers to decide which problems to assign (including assigning none at all).
The practice problem set associated with each lesson only includes topics that are the focus of that lesson. However, distributed practice (revisiting the same content over time) is more eUective than massed practice (a large amount of practice on one topic, but all at once). Because of this, we recommend that teachers construct practice assignments consisting of one or two problems from that day's lesson along with a mix of problems from previous lessons. (Note that this construction of sets of distributed practice problems with cumulative review will be included as part of version 1 of the materials, even though it's not available for the pilot.)
Assessments
Learning Goals and Learning Targets
Each lesson has teacher facing learning goals and student facing learning goals. In version 1 (after the pilot), each lesson will also contain learning targets.
Teacher Facing Learning Goals
These appear at the top of lesson plans. They describe the speciRc lesson learning goals in teacher-level language.
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