What wont we give up

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Step Examples
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Mr. Ivy earned 15 for giving 1
haircut. He gave 21 haircuts each week during the
last 3 weeks. Use the seven step method to show
the total amount of money Mr. Ivy made during the
3 weeks.
Seven Step for Fourth Grade
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In a meeting room, there are 32 seats in a row.
About how many people can be seated in 17 rows?
Use the 7 step method to solve this problem.
Seven Step for Fourth Grade
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Nimitz Elementary students are going to
a museum. Each ticket to the museum cost 5.
There are 31 groups of students, and each group
is made up of 19 students. Use the 7-step method
to find the most reasonable estimate of the
total cost of the tickets.
Seven Step for Fourth Grade
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Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch 264 pails
of water. They each took home half of the pails.
Then Jack divided his pails evenly between his
cows and sheep. How many pails of water did
Jacks sheep get? Use the seven-step
method to find your answer.
Seven Step for Fourth Grade
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Add descriptions and labels to the process
Fifth Grade Seven Step
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Nathan lives 3.9 miles east of Ellen and 1.6
miles west of Dylan. They all live on Main
Street. How far does Dylan live from Ellen?
Seven Step for Fifth Grade
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The money Justin earns is deposited into his
college fund. He had 1,568 in the fund at the
beginning of the summer. He added 180 to his
fund each week for 12 weeks. How much money will
he have saved by the end of the summer?
Seven Step for Fifth Grade
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Chris was the first person to arrive at a soccer
game. Each group that arrived after Chris had two
more people than the group before. After the 15th
group arrived, how many people were at the game?

Seven Step for Fifth Grade
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There are 12 pencils in a dozen and 12 dozen
pencils in a gross. How many pencils did the
principal get when she ordered 125 gross?
Seven Step for Fifth Grade
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Another strategy that contributes to our success
in the TAKS grades 3 5
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Tutorials

• Pull from
• Benchmark Tests
• Checkpoint Tests
• Weekly Tests
• Homework
• Observation

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Data Analysis

• What does it mean?
• How does it work?

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Tutorials

• Mid day tutorials
• Monday through Thursday
• After school tutorials
• One day per week
• Two days per week

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Tutorials Mid Day homeroom time

• Weekly Tests
• Homework
• TAKS papers
• Observation (ie division)

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• Grid
• Record all wrong answers
• Choose an area of concern (ie Angles, place
  value)
• Pull ANY student that needs extra practice
• Reteach

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Tutorials After schoolRight now - January

• Benchmark Test
• Lowest scores
• Concerns gut feel

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• Grid
• Record all their wrong answers
• Look at their needs as a group and individually
• Reach into the bag present skill in a different
  way
• Fun
• Exciting
• New approach
• Manipulatives

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Objectives to teach
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Tutorials After schoolMarchAfter 2nd benchmark

• Reevaluate results
• Look at class as a whole
• Look at individuals

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Develop class lessons starting at the lowest
scoring objective
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Tutorials After schoolMarch

• Benchmark Test
• Lowest scores
• Concerns gut feel

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Tutorials Conference TimeMarch

• Benchmark Test
• Students that would really benefit from
  individual tutorials

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What do the students say about math?
Math class goes by so fast!
How come this class isnt as long as the other
classes?
Were going to have FUN!
I told my mom that I needed to come to school at
least for math! -Last class of her day
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Whats our secret?

• Keep them busy
• Capitalize on their likes

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Favorite Activities
Math Fun!

• Stuart Murphy
• Author
• Uses math in real life situation

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Favorite Activities
7 stepProblemSolving
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Favorite Activities
Estimation
Marcy Cook Math Models with Magnetic Materials
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Favorite Activities
Drill Command
Kim Sutton
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Favorite Activities
Hundred Chart
Marcy Cook Color It on the Hundred Chart Book 2
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Favorite Activities

• White boards
• Dry erase markers

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Favorite Activities
Mrs. Rathbun says
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Favorite Activities
Patterning
Marcy Cook Coop Thinking
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Nimitz Elementary Favorites

• Workbooks / Materials
• TAKS Connection Diagnostic and Developmental
  Series, Kamico
• Blast Off, Buckle Down Publishing
• Measuring Up, Peoples Publishing Group
• Step up to the TAKS, GF Educators, Inc.
• TAKS Master, TestSMART, ECS Learning Systems,
  Inc.
• 5th Sense Region 13 Service Center
• Lakeshore Learning

• Websites / software
• Access by Educaide question bank
• Webccat question bank
• Trainers / Materials
• Margaret Kilgo
• Marcy Cook
• Joshua Horton
• Kim Sutton

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Questions??
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Thank you for coming!!
Wade IvyNancy GleasonApril Rathbun
Nimitz ElementaryKerrville ISDKerrville, Texas