FIRST IN MATH at Honor Roll
Training Bulletin, NLCI Education Department
AGENDA
- GIVING THE PRE-ASSESSMENT
- LOOKING AT THE DATA TO DRIVE INSTRUCTION
- DEEP PRACTICE: Gyms and Skill Sets
- INDIVIDUALIZED DATA AND PLP'S
- NEXT STEPS
Reminder: This SMORE goes in order from top to bottom. Scroll to see what is next.
HOW TO USE THIS SMORE
This SMORE was created for KIPS teachers. The videos are in order to help you navigate the site.The video camera icon means that there is a screencast to watch.
REMINDER: FIM is being used as a formative assessment tool for mathematics for our K-12 schools. Questions? Contact toby.grosswald@nlcinc.com
Why, What, How of Formative Assessment
Why?
To improve student achievementWhat?
A process used by teachers and students during instruction that provides feedback to adjust ongoing teaching and learning to improve students' achievement of intended instructional outcomes.
How?
Formative assessment supplies the evidence students need in order to make any necessary adjustments in how they are trying to learn something.
REVIEW: Must Do's from October
https://www.smore.com/p2t2x-first-in-math-bulletin-oct-2016
- Registration
- Log-in Practice
- Parent letter distribution
- GRADES 1-5: Completion of JTF100 as a pre-assessment for all four operations - 5 minutes each
- MIDDLE GRADES 6-8: JTF Integers as a pre-assessment for all four operations - 12 minutes each
- Download Puffin Academy if working on iPad
#2: JUST DO IT
JTF
JTF INTEGERS
#3 What does this data tell me?
#4 How can I address the fluency needs of my students?
DEEP PRACTICE in GYMS
Deep Practice consists of stopping when an error occurs, practicing that one skill until it is perfected, then continuing. Students learn by repeating, reassessing and "fixing" their skills in the process of learning them, with immediate feedback and error-correction.
Scientific research shows that this type of learning causes myelin, a neural insulation, to grow and thicken around axons, which connect the brain's neurons to each other. Increased myelin makes the information signal that passes through the neural network faster, stronger, and longer lasting. The result is quicker thinking, and better retention.
Practice in Skill Sets
LET'S REVIEW
- Give the appropriate pre-assessment based on the grade of the student.
- Guide the teaching of your students based on their data.
- PRACTICE GYMS and SKILL SETS are the best practice games for fact fluency.
- Practice GYMS build fact fluency with whole numbers, fractions, decimals, and integers.
- SKILL SETS are a pathway to procedural fluency. Students build equations from single-step addition to multi-step algebra—a gauge of problem-solving skills through procedural fluency.
- There are many other resources in your math program to practice mathematical fluency.
- FIM TESTS AUTOMATICITY!!!
Next Steps
- When the students are not in the gyms or skill sets, please allow them to play any of the games to gain stickers.
- The Goals Index Preview can be found on every FIM page under RESOURCES
- More information can be found by using the TUTORIAL icon on the teacher HOME PAGE
Teachers should help students develop math facts, not by emphasizing facts for the sake of facts or using ‘timed tests’ but by encouraging students to use, work with and explore numbers. As students work on meaningful number activities they will commit math facts to heart at the same time as understanding numbers and math. They will enjoy and learn important mathematics rather than memorize, dread and fear mathematics.