Motivation Math

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What is it?

• Motivation Math is a supplemental math program
  that prepares students for state assessments. The
  Student Edition provides many learning
  opportunities to build student confidence and
  success in mathematics. Motivation Math is
  developed by educators and is available in
  English and Spanish.

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Benefits

• Supports standards-based mathematics curricula
  and complements existing mathematics programs
• Offers test-formatted and open-ended practice
• Builds mathematics vocabulary
• Incorporates problem-solving strategies

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Benefits

• Motivates and challenges students
• Allows students to self-monitor progress
• Addresses all levels of critical thinking
• Provides ongoing assessment of skills

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Benefits

• Reinforces and extends skills in mathematics
• Offers suggestions for parent involvement
• Allows instruction to be driven by individual
  student needs

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Benefits

• Bridges the gap from concrete to abstract
• Offers a framework of systematic instruction
• Engages students in active learning experiences

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Layout and Organization

• Teacher Edition
• Provides teaching resources that promote
  effective, engaging direct instruction

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Layout and Organization

• Identifies mathematics strand, the objective, and
  the student expectation
• Suggests manipulatives for each lesson
• Provides literature that corresponds to each
  lesson
• Offers hands-on student activities to build
  student conceptual understanding

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Layout and Organization

• Identifies key mathematics vocabulary for each
  lesson
• Features a motivational quote

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Layout and Organization

• Student Edition
• Contains 6 pages of practice for each targeted
• student expectation
• Introduction Page
• Guided Practice
• Independent Practice
• Assessment
• Critical Thinking
• Homework with Parent Activities

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Layout and Organization

• Introduction Page
• Introduce lesson by working together
• Use to bridge thegap from concreteto abstract

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Layout and Organization

• Guided Practice
• Have students practice independently with teacher
  supervisionand support

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Layout and Organization

• Independent Practice
• Have students work independently to check
  individual understandingof skill

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Layout and Organization

• Assessment
• Use to assess the levelof student success
  ontargeted skill
• Have student chart progress using Chart Your
  Success graph

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Layout and Organization

• Critical Thinking
• Provides open-ended practice
• Addresses higher levels of Blooms Taxonomy
• Incorporates problem-solving strategies

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Layout and Organization

• Homework with
• Parent Activities
• Reinforces and extends skills
• Offers suggestions for parent involvement

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Layout and Organization

• Chart Your Success
• Have students track success and progress
• Use assessment page results to color Motivation
  Mike or Molly green for correct answers and red
  for incorrect answers

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Layout and Organization

• Math Glossary
• Identifies and defines key vocabulary

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Suggestions for Use

• Utilize as a planning tool by teachers and
  grade-level teams to improve and deliver
  effective instruction
• Use suggested ideas and activities to offer
  multiple and varied learning opportunities
• Diversify instruction to meet the unique needs of
  learners through the use of assessment

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Suggestions for Use

• Use Motivation Math with individual learners in
  small-groups, or with whole groups to develop,
  review, or extend skill mastery
• Utilize Motivation Math as an intervention tool
  to address deficit skills for identified students
• Use Motivation Math as an instructional tool in
  tutorials or for extended day programs

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Suggestions for Use

• Maximize use of instructional time by following
  the organization and structure of the Teacher and
  Student Editions
• Use research-based instructional practices to
  increase student achievement
• Use Motivation Math to support the successful
  implementation of state mathematical standards

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