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=Strategies for Helping Students who Struggle with Mathematics=

= = Recommendations from the IES Practice Guide //Assisting Students Struggling with Mathematics: Response to Intervention (RtI) for Elementary and Middle Schools//, published by the What Works Clearinghouse, U.S. Department of Education. (Click here to download the document.)

**Recommendation 3:** **Instruction during the intervention should be explicit and systematic. This includes providing models of proficient problem solving, verbalization of thought processes, guided practice, corrective feedback, and frequent cumulative review. **


 * Khan Academy website (see Lattice Multiplication) Not necessarily a perfect model of explicit instruction, but a start. He does verbalize his own thinking along with being clear about why he is doing various procedures.

**Recommendation** **4: ** **Interventions should include instruction on solving word problems that is based on common underlying structures. **


 * [|Underlying structure of whole number multiplication and division problems], from //Children's Mathematics: Cognitively Guided Instruction//, by Carpenter et. al. 1999

**Recommendation** **5: ** **Intervention materials should include opportunities for students to work with visual representations of mathematical ideas and interventionists should be proficient in the use of visual representations of mathematical ideas. **


 * [|CRA for multidigit subtraction] (Concrete-Representational-Abstract, or more plainly: Objects-Pictures-Symbols)

[|Cross-discipline engagement strategies] from workshops by Kevin Feldman [|Marzano's nine research-based Instructional Strategies That Work.doc]
 * Related strategies: **

Ingham Intermediate School District Theron Blakeslee, Mathematics and Science Consultant. 517-244-1201 tblakesl@inghamisd.org

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