How to Help Kids Improve Math Skills
Teaching below grade level students can be difficult. Many students have lost learning due to absences, lack of support, and learning difficulties. How can you help kids improve their math skills after this? Let’s look at three ways to start improving math skills and helping kids become grade level proficient in math.
Improving math skills is a journey. So, where do you start? What's the fastest way to help students become on grade level in math? Let’s look at 3 ways to help kids improve their math skills to become proficient in math.
Make a Plan for Proficiency.
You will want to make a specific plan for your classroom. Use a calendar and map out your months, quarters, or year of school. Start at the end of your calendar and work backwards. What do you want your students to be able to do at the end of the month, end of the quarter, or end of the year? Then map out backwards how you will reach proficiency.
Find Direction to Reach Proficiency.
How do you diagnose what your kids know now? Give a grade level diagnostic (beginning of year or midyear) test to students to see which math concepts they don't know yet. This will instruct what skills you need to reteach or teach to your students in order to gain proficiency.
Teach Specific Benchmark Standards.
Take your grade level standards and compare them with your test results. Use the test results as a starting place to teach missing grade level standards. This is how you will fill in what you need for your kids to succeed.
