Strategic Math Series

Studies for two of the SIM Strategic Math Series Interventions, Multiplication with Regrouping: Partial Products and Multiplication with Regrouping: Standard Algorithm, have recently been reviewed by the National Center on Intensive Intervention (NCII)’s Technical Review Committee and are now listed as part of the NCII Academic Intervention Tools Chart.

Click here to view the chart:
https://charts.intensiveintervention.org/aintervention

Great work to SIM Authors and Researchers, Margaret Flores and Bradley Kaffar!

For Immediate Release: Announcing the Institute for Strategic Mathematics Interventions (ISMI) at the Kansas University Center for Research on Learning (KUCRL)
New Year! New Goals! Exciting Stuff!

KUCRL has added another research team and institute! One of our goals as a research center is to become nationally recognized as a center that supports mathematics instruction for students with limited proficiency in mathematics. Read more about the Institute for Strategic Mathematics Interventions at: https://kucrl.ku.edu/introducing-new-institute-strategic-mathematics-interventions-ismi-center-research-learning-1

For Immediate Release:
Introducing the NEW Institute for Strategic Mathematics Interventions (ISMI) at the Center for Research on Learning
https://kucrl.ku.edu/ismi

The concrete-representational-abstract (CRA) sequence and strategies are effective for teaching multi-digit computation with an emphasis on conceptual and procedural knowledge. This session provided research findings, demonstrations, and practice related to the CRA sequence and strategies for multiplication with regrouping (partial products and standard algorithm) along with suggestions for implementation.

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The purpose of this presentation is to demonstrate several evidence-based practices to improve computation and problem-solving skills. The effects of research to investigate evidence-based practices (e.g., explicit teaching principles, concrete-representational-abstract [CRA] teaching sequence, graduated sequence of lessons, and cognitive strategies) on computation and common word problem situations is discussed.

New! Using the Concrete-Representational-Abstract Sequence to Teach Conceptual Understanding of Basic Multiplication and Division (Milton et al., 2018)

Using the Concrete–Representational–Abstract Sequence to Teach Conceptual Understanding of Basic Multiplication and Division - Jessica H. Milton, Margaret M. Flores, Alexcia J. Moore, Ja’Lia J. Taylor, Megan E. Burton, 2018 To meet increasingly complex mathematics standards in late elementary school, students must conceptually understand and be fluent in the operations of multiplic...

The New Manuals are Available!

Learn About a New Strategic Math Series Manual: Teaching Multiplication Using Partial Products

Increasing Understanding and Fluency in Multiplication and Division with CRA

J. Milton | CRA | KUCRL 2018 "Using CRA to Develop Conceptual Understanding and Fluency in Multiplication and Division" Concurrent Session Tuesday, July 17, 2018 2:45 – 4:00 Jessica H. M...

We demonstrated several evidence-based strategies to improve problem-solving skills and computation with regrouping. The effects of research to investigate evidence-based practices on four common word problem situations and computation with regrouping was discussed.

This session described how the researchers used CRA to teach elementary students with disabilities about the relation between multiplication and division while developing fluency in basic facts. The attendees learned how to design similar CRA interventions to use in their own classrooms.