The 1st grade intervention units have been a lifesaver for me as a math interventionist without a curriculum to use. These units are so well thought out, the CRA approach your units take is exactly what my students need.

Hi! I’m Susan. I help elementary math teachers and interventionists to improve their students’ learning without increasing stress or workload. My goal is to give you the strategies and resources you need to support your math students- even your most struggling math students through simple and effective instructional strategies.

It’s so easy to get caught up in the ever-growing list of things you should or could be doing during your math intervention time but I’m more interested in simplifying and implementing the basics well!

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These quick-start math intervention resources will help you move from no-plan to ready-to-go in a few short and simple steps. When a project feels too big or too overwhelming it can be easy to move it to the back burner.

Free printable math manipulatives including base ten blocks, cubes, red and yellow disks, money, dominoes, number bonds, ten frames and more!

A powerful math lesson will tie together aspects of the concrete, representative and abstract within a lesson and will give students opportunities to make explicit connections. Related Posts: Post 1: The Math Spot Compares Fractions- Introduction

Read what others have said about intervention units by The Math Spot. These units are so well thought out and engaging for my intervention students. I haven't been able to find anything else that targets all of the 1st grade intervention needs as well as these units.

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First grade students use place value understanding to find 10 more and 10 less for sums to 100. While this particular mental skill may seem daunting, a few simple math tools and exercises will allow your students to understand how adding ten or taking away ten works.