Math Guidelines

Learning activities provide ways for students to generate and interpret a range of mathematical methods and representations (symbols, manipulatives, graphs, tables, words, etc.) and methods.

Teacher materials provide guidance to encourage students to draw comparisons and connections across different methods and representations.

Units of study include multiple sensory modalities for student interaction.

Teacher materials provide supports for teacher modeling of reading, writing, listening, speaking, and thinking aloud.

Teacher materials point to strategic opportunities for teachers to meet directly with EL students individually and in small groups.

Teacher materials give guidance on what to look for, listen for, questions to ask, and/or feedback to give when meeting with EL students.

Materials present a balance of opportunities for independent, paired, small-group, and whole-class activities.

Teacher materials make suggestions for addressing possible language issues that may interfere with engagement of math content.

Materials demonstrate activities and ways to help students make meaning of typical mathematical texts such as word problems, graphs, tables, etc.

Materials provide activities to help distinguish between common everyday meanings of language and mathematical meanings (table, round, product, origin, similar, etc.) as they emerge in the materials.

Unit amplifies rather than simplifies English language structures and forms that are often used in mathematics.