Math Interventions

My new job as a Math Interventionist has been an amazing and challenging endeavor! I'm at a new district so there has been a lot of learning going on! I attended a workshop on Math Interventions and I learned so much about the RtI process and how it should be done and what not to do, too. Here are some of the activities I've been trying out. 

In Kindergarten, the kids have needed a lot of counting and number recognition activities.

I started out with 0-5 and now we've moved on to 6-9. For this activity, I used number cards, UNO cards, mini-erasers, and bingo chips. I laid out the number cards and gave the kids UNO cards with those numbers to sort. Then we counted out circles to match the numbers. They are also working on 1-to-1 correspondence so we pretended that the circles were chairs and put a bunny on each chair and counted them again.

My kindergarten students are also working on writing numbers.

They needed a lot of support so I made these number tracing cards to practice. 

I added the arrows by hand. There is a lot of hand-over-hand with this activity so that they start at the top and form the numbers correctly.

Using the dry erase markers makes this activity more fun and we can quickly erase and do it over and over. Click the picture to get a download of the numbers.

First graders have been working on number sense and addition skills. 

I have noticed they need a lot of practice with teen numbers and telling the difference between teens and 21, 31, 41, etc. This game was a fun and easy way to practice. Click the picture to see it. 

Dominoes are a great way to practice addition skills. First we worked on subitizing the numbers. Subitizing is when you can recognize an amount without counting each dot. 

Later we connected the dominoes to the number bond, helping students understand that numbers can be broken into parts. 

Both these mats can be found in my Headfirst First Grade Math Curriculum. Click the picture to see it in my store.

In second grade we also have been working on number sense. We started with the tens. 

They did pretty well with it. We've also been counting by 10s and 5s.

We are using AIMS web plus to benchmark and for progress monitoring. Students really struggled with the triads. They are given 3 numbers and they are to tell which number the middle number is closer to. I made a blank number line that we could write on to visualize how far apart the numbers are. 

This was helpful. 

I then made some cards and number lines to go with them. Adding the erasers made it more engaging. These are included in my Math Interventions Pack.

 
Click to see where I ordered the erasers.

We just had our first Data Day to discuss who needs interventions and which Tier to put them on so now I have a lot more planning to do. Look for more math intervention activities in future blog posts!