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Title: Math Interventions


1
Math Interventions
  • By Brian Stagg
  • March 7, 2002
  • CBC

2
Background
  • Current math curriculum is sequential
  • Skills deficits become cumulative
  • About 5 to 6 of students are Math LD
  • 40 of 4th graders scored Below Basic Level
  • Many students struggle with math especially
    fluency

3
Common Skills Deficits
  • Mastery of Computational Skills
  • Rules
  • Basic Operations
  • Fluency
  • Mathematic Applications

4
Common Errors
  • 77
  • 4
  • 174
  • 66
  • -58
  • 12
  • 3
  • 3
  • 0
  • 4
  • -3
  • 1
  • 3
  • 2
  • 1
  • 5
  • -3
  • 2

5
Errors cont.
  • Carrying and Borrowing
  • Computation and operations
  • Both effect fluency and accuracy

6
Assessment
  • Norm-referenced
  • WIAT
  • WJ-III
  • Stanford Diagnostic Mathematic Test (SDTM)
  • KeyMath-Revised
  • Weaknesses
  • General concepts broad-based
  • Too few problems for proper assessment

7
Assessment CBM
  • Assess a single skill
  • Two-digit addition with borrowing
  • Assess multiple skills
  • Two-digit addition and subtraction
  • Assesses fluency and accuracy

8
Other Assessments
  • Error analysis looking at a common error over
    many problems
  • CBM can be effective in determining EA
  • Clinical Interviews
  • CI entails asking the student to talk through the
    steps he or she used to a solve a problem

9
Conducting CBM
  • Use district scope and sequence list of
    computational skills (appendix)
  • Construct 2 to 3 probe sheets with about 30 35
    problems
  • Directions (see appendix)

10
Scoring
  • Digits correct
  • Add, Sub. Multiply is digits below the line
  • 75
  • x26
  • 450
  • 150_
  • 2850

11
Scoring cont.
  • 75
  • x26
  • 435
  • 285_
  • 3415
  • Division GOOD LUCK (consult a book)
  • Percent Correct divide of problems correct by
    total of problems

12
Advantages of CBM
  • Find systematic errors
  • Specific skills deficits
  • Chart progress
  • Development of short and long term goals

13
Interventions
  • Self-Monitoring
  • Cover,Copy, and Compare
  • Reciprocal Peer Tutoring (with parental
    involvement)
  • Increasing Fluency with timing and reinforcement

14
Self-Monitoring
  • Number of Problems completed and/or accuracy
  • Student charts progress on a graph/chart (example
    in appendix)
  • Cover, Copy and Compare

15
Cover Copy and Compare
  • A sheet with about 10 problems w/answers in left
    column and two other columns (copy and compare)
  • Student reads problem and answer
  • Covers problem
  • Then copies the problem and answer
  • Uncover and compare answers
  • Best for basic math facts

16
Reciprocal Peer Tutoring (RPT)
  • Combines self-management techniques and group
    contingencies within a peer tutoring format
    (Rathvon, 1999 pp. 195).
  • Resources
  • Paired-partners
  • Flash cards w/problems and computational steps
  • Problem drill sheets
  • Reinforcement menu
  • 30 minutes
  • 4 section paper w/ Try 1 try 2 help and
    try 3

17
RPT cont.
  • Procedure
  • Partners set a team goal and individual goal for
    number of problems answered correct
  • One student act as teacher and gives flashcards
  • The other answers the problems on 4-section paper
  • Try 1 1st attempt
  • Try 2 teacher prompt from card
  • Help teacher models with instruction
  • Try 3 retry
  • Switch roles after 10 minutes
  • After 2nd set each person completes a problem
    drill sheet
  • If goals are met record on score card, and after
    5 wins receive reinforcement item

18
RPT with Parental Involvement
  • Same as RPT but with a parent component
  • Procedure
  • Inform parents of the program with a letter
    (Rathvon, 1999. pp. 202-203)
  • Same procedure but after 3 wins send a parent
    notification to reward the child
  • One variation is that the parents would return
    the note indicating the reinforcement given
  • RPT allows you chart progress and evaluate
    instruction

19
Other Interventions to Increase Fluency and
Accuracy
  • Other types of progress charts and reinforcement
    schedules
  • completed in time limit
  • accurate in time limit
  • Homework completion
  • Reinforcement schedules at home or school

20
Alternative Interventions
  • Cognitive Learning Strategies (Bruning, Schraw,
    Ronning, 1999)
  • Focus on processes, structures and decisions, not
    on answers
  • Problem-solving approaches
  • Applications

21
Considerations for Interventions
  • Do not be misguided or misdirected
  • Prevent habituating incorrect routines
  • Guarantee success (more correct answers)
  • Offer alternative ways to display proficiency in
    math
  • (Cawley Parmar, 1991)

22
Considerations for CBC
  • Intervention at school and reinforcement at home
  • CBM measures
  • Assess
  • Chart progress
  • Data collection
  • Parents practice and model homework with the
    child
  • Peer tutoring

23
References
  • Bruning, R. H., Schraw, G. J.,
    Ronning, R. R. (1999). Cognitive Psychology and
    Instruction. Upper Saddle River, NJ
    Prentice-Hall.
  • Cawley, J. F., Parmar, R. S. (1991).
    Maximizing mathematics success in the regular
    classroom. In G. Stoner, M. R. Shinn, H. M.
    Walker (Eds.), Interventions for achievement and
    behavior problems. Silver Spring, MD NASP.
  • Fleischner, J. E., Manheimer, M. A.
    (1997). Math interventions for students with
    learning disabilities Myths and realities.
    School Psychology Review, 26, 397-413.
  • Rathvon, N. (1999). Effective school
    interventions Strategies for enhancing academic
    achievement and social competence. New York
    Guilford Press.
  • Shapiro, E. S. (1996). Academic skills
    problems Direct assessment and intervention.
    New York Guilford Press.
  • Shapiro, E. S., Kratochwill, T. R. (2000).
    Conducting school-based assessments of child and
    adolescent behavior. New York Guilford Press.
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