Mathnasium Training Exam Questions And
Answers
Individual instruction in a group environment - ANS many classes of one
Team teaching - ANS instructors rotate on the floor, helping students in strategic moments,
students benefit from multiple instructors
Each instructor helps students individually - ANS
10 rules of engagement - ANS Use mathnasium teaching constructs, try a new explanation
if it isn't working, fall back on old knowledge when a student is struggling and expand knowledge
with student is succeeding, praise and criticize constructively when appropriate, socratic vs
direct teaching, use mathnasium vocabulary, use tools for visual learning, use metacognition,
use mental math, master team teaching
Half and half model - ANS half HW, half mathnasium activity
Mathnasium model - ANS warmup, warm down, mathnasium activities, HW
Guidelines for instruction delivery - ANS Sit across from students, Supporting and
encouraging voice, Be concise
GENE Teaching - ANS help a student for a while, allow them to be independent, help
someone else, then come back
The Student Binder - ANS Contains material from student learning plan, assembled from
assessment results
Sections 1-5 of binder - ANS Assessments and progress info, Prescriptives in works (grade
specific), A+ splits active packs and new packs, Workout books in works (development
dependent, simple and helps with mathematical thinking), Corrected prescriptives, Corrected
workout books
PKs (spersciptives) - ANS designed like typical math practice pages with increasing
difficulty ranging in length (2-22 pgs) (Don't tell them the PK level)
Instructional pages - ANS help instructors refresh on techniques
Answers
Individual instruction in a group environment - ANS many classes of one
Team teaching - ANS instructors rotate on the floor, helping students in strategic moments,
students benefit from multiple instructors
Each instructor helps students individually - ANS
10 rules of engagement - ANS Use mathnasium teaching constructs, try a new explanation
if it isn't working, fall back on old knowledge when a student is struggling and expand knowledge
with student is succeeding, praise and criticize constructively when appropriate, socratic vs
direct teaching, use mathnasium vocabulary, use tools for visual learning, use metacognition,
use mental math, master team teaching
Half and half model - ANS half HW, half mathnasium activity
Mathnasium model - ANS warmup, warm down, mathnasium activities, HW
Guidelines for instruction delivery - ANS Sit across from students, Supporting and
encouraging voice, Be concise
GENE Teaching - ANS help a student for a while, allow them to be independent, help
someone else, then come back
The Student Binder - ANS Contains material from student learning plan, assembled from
assessment results
Sections 1-5 of binder - ANS Assessments and progress info, Prescriptives in works (grade
specific), A+ splits active packs and new packs, Workout books in works (development
dependent, simple and helps with mathematical thinking), Corrected prescriptives, Corrected
workout books
PKs (spersciptives) - ANS designed like typical math practice pages with increasing
difficulty ranging in length (2-22 pgs) (Don't tell them the PK level)
Instructional pages - ANS help instructors refresh on techniques
