Learning Cycles

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Learning Cycles Providers of essential math
skill review programs for Grades 1-10

• MATHS MATE weekly worksheets (5th-10th)
• FIRST 5s daily warm-ups (6th-Algebra)
• HEADS UP daily math workouts (1st 4th)
• NEW 2013 Editions 100 Aligned with Common Core

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OUR PROGRAMS

• are NOT computer-based
• are NOT overwhelming to teachers
• are NOT the daily lessons
• are NOT drill and kill

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Adapted from Brain Matters, Patricia Wolfe, ASCD,
2001
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• Accessible Mathematics, 10 Instructional Shifts
  That Raise Student Achievement
• Steve Leinwand
• Heinemann, 2009

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Ready, Set, Review

• So, what should we see in an effective
  mathematics classroom?

• A deliberate and carefully planned reliance on
  ongoing, cumulative review of key skills and
  concepts

• Using cumulative review to keep skills and
  understandings fresh, reinforce previously taught
  material, and give students a change to clarify
  their understandings.

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MEMORY RETENTION
Long term memory
Regular review develops and maintains long-term
memory.
MEMORY RETENTION
Without regular review or practice, long-term
memory is not developed.
TIME
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OUR PROGRAMS provide regular review to maintain
memory of basic mathematical skills and concepts
for Grades 1-10. They are

• comprehensive
• systematic
• user-friendly
• affordable

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Components of MATHS MATE PROGRAM Grades 5-10
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• comprehensive

Each week students do problems that cover a range
of skills and concepts.
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systematic

• One sheet goes home each week with other assigned
  homework.
• Students bring their completed worksheets to
  class.
• The teacher calls the answers from the Teacher
  Manual and students mark their own work.
• Students fill in the number of correct problems
  on the bottom of the sheet.

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Tracking is a powerful tool.

• Students transfer weekly results from the
  worksheet to the quarterly Tracking Sheet.
• Identified gaps are addressed with the
  appropriate online Skill Builders.

Area of concern 14 Squares / Square
Roots On-line Skill Builder 14.1
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Problem numbers cover the same concept or skill
each week.
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Online SKILL BUILDERS

• For extra practice, download and complete the
  SKILL BUILDER page that corresponds with the
  area of difficulty.
• Trouble with
• 14 Squares / Square Roots?

• Free to use for
• teachers
• students
• parents

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TESTING

• There are two tests available every 4 weeks 16
  tests per year.
• These can be used as
• Pre-test and post-test
• Practice test real test
• Different tests for students sitting
  side-by-side.

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TEST RESULTS

• The teacher marks a test for each student and
  fills in a Test Results sheet.

• Areas of weakness are identified.

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DAILY WARM-UPS A 32-week program

• FIRST 5s provides comprehensive, organized review
  of all grade-level Common Core Standards

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• Click and the answers appear

• 3 screens per week - 96 screens in all

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• 16 tests - 4 for each of the eight cycles

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• 3 screens per week
• 96 screens in all
• 4 tests per cycle
• 16 tests in all

Personalized Monitoring Sheets to track an
individuals progress
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Components of HEADS UP math workouts Grades 1
4 NEW 2013 Editions 100 Aligned with Common
Core
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• comprehensive

Whole Numbers Place Value Number Sense Basic
Operations Vocabulary and Symbols Fractions
Decimals (4th) Patterns Algebra Geometry
Measurement Time and Money Graphing Data
Analysis BASIC FACTS PROBLEM-SOLVING
Each week students do problems that cover basic
skills and concepts at a review level for their
grade.
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DAY 1 Addition Whole Numbers Place Value Number
Sense Basic Operations Fractions
DAY 2 Subtraction Fractions Decimals
Patterns Vocabulary Symbols
DAY 3 Multiplication Algebra Geometry Geometry Me
asurement Measurement
DAY 4 Division Graphing Data Analysis
Sample from HEADS UP! Orange Grade 4
DAY 5 Problem Solving
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DIGITAL FILES
for teaching and self-correcting
Match the daily workouts.
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PAGE 6 Formative evaluation and reflection
Listing words to remember.
Assessing the weeks work.
Other practice.
Student reflection
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KEEPING TRACK Recording student performance
Transfer weekly results to create a picture of
strengths and weaknesses.
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• 16 tests for the year
• Two for each of the 8 cycles

TESTS
Pre-Test
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MORE FUN
More Fun sample from HEADS UP! Cherry Grade 2
More Fun sample from HEADS UP! Kiwi Grade 1
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GLOSSARY
Vocabulary words are capitalized. . . . . .
. . and defined in the workbook GLOSSARY.
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TABLE OF MEASURES
Measurements. . .
. . . . are referenced in the student workbooks
TABLE OF MEASURES.
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• user-friendly

Designed by teachers for teachers, our programs

• 100 aligned with Common Core teaching
• do NOT interfere with planned lessons.
• come ready to use and requires minimal class or
  teacher prep time.
• provide the opportunity for students to
  self-correct and track their results.
• have a diagnostic component.

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Response to Intervention

• Our programs are used both at Tier 1 to
  supplement the core instructional mathematics
  curriculum and Tier 2 with follow-up Skill
  Builders.

• Using the programs ensure that more students are
  able to meet grade level norms without additional
  assistance because of the comprehensive,
  systematic review of essential basic skills and
  concepts.

• The weekly tracking provides frequent progress
  monitoring, thus identifying which students need
  additional instruction and review. This review
  is done with the Skill Builders.

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• affordable

• MATHS MATE -
• only 7.00 per student per year.
• less than 22 per student per week.

• HEADS UP! -
• only 8.00 per student per year.
• 5 per day.

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• MATHS MATE
• FIRST 5s
• HEADS UP

weekly worksheets (5th-10th) daily warm-ups
(6th-Algebra) math workouts (1st 4th)
Our programs are

• comprehensive
• systematic
• user-friendly
• affordable

For more information visit www.learning-cycl
es.com
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PO Box 125 Phone/Fax [phone] Lincoln
, MA 01773 learn_at_learning-cycles.com
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