Mathnasium Training Exam|116
Questions and Answers
Individual instruction in a group environment - -many classes of one
-Team teaching - -instructors rotate on the floor, helping students in
strategic moments, students benefit from multiple instructors, Each
instructor helps students individually
-10 rules of engagement - -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 - -half HW, half mathnasium activity
-Mathnasium model - -warmup, warm down, mathnasium activities, HW
-Guidelines for instruction delivery - -Sit across from students, Supporting
and encouraging voice, Be concise
-GENE Teaching - -help a student for a while, allow them to be independent,
help someone else, then come back
-The Student Binder - -Contains material from student learning plan,
assembled from assessment results
-Sections 1-5 of binder - -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 (prescriptives) - -designed like typical math practice pages with
increasing difficulty ranging in length (2-22 pgs) (Don't tell them the PK
level)
-Instructional pages - -help instructors refresh on techniques
-Mastery check - -mini-assessment, should be done independently
-Focus Ons (FOs) - -extra practice, not grade related, general topics, adds
depth, advanced students, code at bottom right of each page
, -Workout Books (WOBs) - -based on student number sense evaluation, part
of NSD series and Intervention series
-Student incentive - -star punches, red level 1, red 2, black 3, yellow 4, grey
5
-Team roles - -TT works best when the team is coordinated to support
students
-Rules of team teaching - -Assign team roles, Rotate and read the floor,
Engage students appropriately, Interact with students effectively, Disengage
and communicate, Communication and accountability for student progress,
Understand team roles/accountability/communication, Gives students space
to develop without instructor, Students hear multiple instructor voices,
Instructors are productive and precise, Vibrant safe space
-Mathnasium is all about - -custom and personalized learning, One on one
instruction, Independent students
-Routine - -Students program is in their binder, Students pull binder off
shelf, Scan in, Pick up where left off, Work on workout plan
-How to rotate and read the floor - -Look around see if students have lost
focus/talking/staring into space/asking for help/stuck on one page for a long
time, Use peripheral vision to see if students are raising their hands while
engaged with a student
-How to appropriately engage students - -See how they're doing, Be inviting
and non threatening, Students will be self conscious to ease them in, See
what they know to adjust your vocabulary, Scaffolding by working on easier
stuff to work on what they have an issue with
-How to disengage and communicate - -Once they have it figured out, let
them try it on their own and help someone else, Always leave them with a
task
-Checking out - -Check workout plan goals and see if they've been
accomplished, Make a note on issues if necessary
-Instruction Teams - -Separate areas or student needs, Higher level
students may be sat separately from lower level, Ratio should not exceed 4:1
students to instructor