Mathnasium Training Exam with
complete solutions 2024/2025
Individual instruction in a group environment - ANSWER- many classes of one
Team teaching - ANSWER- instructors rotate on the floor, helping students in
strategic moments, students benefit from multiple instructors
Each instructor helps students individually - ANSWER-
10 rules of engagement - ANSWER- 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 - ANSWER- half HW, half mathnasium activity
Mathnasium model - ANSWER- warmup, warm down, mathnasium activities, HW
Guidelines for instruction delivery - ANSWER- Sit across from students,
Supporting and encouraging voice, Be concise
GENE Teaching - ANSWER- help a student for a while, allow them to be
independent, help someone else, then come back
The Student Binder - ANSWER- Contains material from student learning plan,
assembled from assessment results
Sections 1-5 of binder - ANSWER- 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) - ANSWER- designed like typical math practice pages with
increasing difficulty ranging in length (2-22 pgs) (Don't tell them the PK level)
Instructional pages - ANSWER- help instructors refresh on techniques
Mastery check - ANSWER- mini-assessment, should be done independently
Focus Ons (FOs) - ANSWER- extra practice, not grade related, general topics,
adds depth, advanced students, code at bottom right of each page
Workout Books (WOBs) - ANSWER- based on student number sense evaluation,
part of NSD series and Intervention series
Student incentive - ANSWER- star punches, red level 1, red 2, black 3, yellow 4,
grey 5
Team roles - ANSWER- TT works best when the team is coordinated to support
students
Rules of team teaching - ANSWER- 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 - ANSWER-
Gives students space to develop without instructor - ANSWER-
Students hear multiple instructor voices - ANSWER-
Instructors are productive and precise - ANSWER-
Vibrant safe space - ANSWER-
Mathnasium is all about - ANSWER- custom and personalized learning, One on
one instruction, Independent students
Routine - ANSWER- Students program is in their binder, Students pull binder off
shelf, Scan in, Pick up where left off, Work on workout plan
