Teaching Math in Middle School

Using MTSS to Meet All Students' Needs

Leanne Ketterlin-Geller, David J. Chard, Sarah R. Powell, Lindsey Perry

• Publisher: Brookes Publishing
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9781598572742
• eBook ISBN: 9781681253466
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Teaching Mathematics

Make all your middle schoolers confident and competent mathematicians with this book, your accessible guide to teaching math to every learner in Grades 6-8. Focused on knocking down roadblocks to learning, this reader-friendly resource shows you how to use multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS)—a powerful, widely adopted framework for meeting each student's individual needs. You'll learn how to deliver high-quality, evidence-based math instruction; combine your instruction with meaningful assessment; and provide just-right supports that help students conquer their specific math struggles.

An essential guide for in-service educators—and an important resource for teachers in training—this book gives you the in-depth knowledge and practical tools you need to support every student's success in middle school math.

DISCOVER HOW TO:

• Implement MTSS to benefit all students. Develop and use tiered supports across your whole school, promote collaboration between general and special educators, and troubleshoot your MTSS.
• Build foundational numeracy skills. Help your students strengthen the three pillars of numeracy that build algebraic proficiency.
• Design and deliver effective math instruction. Use today's recommended practices to teach all students, and develop Tier 2 and Tier 3 interventions that really help struggling learners.
• Choose and use effective supports. Distinguish between differentiation, accommodation, and modification, and learn when and how to use them.
• Use data to make decisions. Learn how to select and use screeners, diagnostic assessments, progress monitoring tools, and summative assessments—and use results to shape instruction.

PRACTICAL MATERIALS: More than a dozen downloadable forms help you plan for MTSS and implement what you learned from the book, vignettes and sample problems model best practices, and interviews with real-life educators brim with valuable advice on implementing MTSS in math education.

Index

References to tables and figures are indicated with a t and f respectively.

Abstract concepts

concrete thinking to, 5–7

mathematics and, 5–7

in middle school, 3

symbolic notation with, 6

Accessibility

improving, 2

to learning environment, 36, 38

to mathematics, 37–38

student’s support, 38f

Accommodations

information sheets and, 233

instructional, 42–44, 43t

modifications and, 46–47

scheduling, 44–45, 45t

Accountability tests, 121

Actionable ideas, from feedback, 246

Adaptive reasoning, 131

Adding It Up (National Research Council), 8, 58

Addition, prerequisite skills in, 57f

Additive schemas, 84–88, 85f

Administration, of universal screener, 149–151, 153–154

Affirmative feedback, 112

Agenda, for collaboration, 238, 239f

Algeblocks, 60

Algebra

algorithms solving problems in, 13

concepts and properties in, 58f

continuum of, 98, 98f

distributive property in, 11–13

expressions in, 58

problem-solution representation of, 11f

properties of operations in, 9–10, 9t

unknown quantities in, 4–5

Algebraic reasoning

pillars of, 8f, 21

procedural fluency and, 9–10

skills in, 7f

in word problems, 4–5, 4f

Algorithms

algebraic problems solved by, 13

defective, 165, 165f

for fraction division, 20, 20t

lawfulness of, 18

AngLegs, 60

Assessment systems

cognitive engagement and, 130–132

data for, 133–135, 248

decision...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• About the Downloadable Materials
• About the Authors
• Foreword
• Preface
• Section I: Building Numeracy in Middle School Students
• Section II: Designing and Delivering Effective Mathematics Instruction
• Section III: Using Data to Make Decisions
• Section IV: Implementing MTSS to Support Effective Teaching
• References
• Index