This Focused Mathematics Booster Pack is the perfect companion to Focused Mathematics Intervention! Extend your intervention instruction with high-interest math readers and student-friendly activities that promote problem solving and mathematical discourse through real-world connections. The flexible instructional format can be used with workstations, small groups, and whole-class instruction. The multi-modal activities accommodate different learning styles and provide hours of math practice per book, and the titles have been specifically selected to capture a wide range of student interests across the content areas. Give your math intervention program a "boost" with this essential booster pack!
Fiction and nonfiction books were carefully chosen to include a range of grade-appropriate reading levels and to support grade-level mathematics standards, with emphasis on each grade level’s Critical Areas of Focus. Each high-interest text features appropriately leveled content and real-world mathematics connections.
The Winning AngleLevel: 4.6 $8.99 Grade: 4-8 Item Number: 10913 Learn how important the winning angles are in sports! This fun title uses different sports for example problems to teach children all about angles, lines of symmetry, perpendicular lines, and other basic geometrical concepts. |
CSILevel: 5.9 $8.99 Grade: 4-8 Item Number: 10921 Learn how crime scene investigators examine data from fingerprints, blood samples, DNA samples, and lie detector tests to analyze and interpret crime scenes! This title shows readers engaging real-life examples of data analysis and probability. |
Package DesignLevel: 6.8 $8.99 Grade: 5-8 Item Number: 14460 Learn how designers work with two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes, measuring their surface area, volume, diameter, and radius, to create great package designs! Readers will practice these skills and see how they are put to use every day! |
Hurricane HuntersLevel: 6.9 $8.99 Grade: 5-8 Item Number: 14462 Learn about measures of central tendency while following the lives and work of some brave individuals--hurricane hunters! Readers will master mathematical statistics, measures of central tendency, mean, median, mode, range, and more! |
STEM Careers: Reinventing RoboticsLevel: 7.8 $11.99 Grade: 6-8 Item Number: 25623 Robots are no longer the dream of a distant future. State-of-the-art robots have arrived! Learn about the fascinating field of robotics with this leveled text featuring TIME content that builds critical literacy skills and STEM content knowledge. |
Fun and Games: Building Miniature Models: Multiplying DecimalsLevel: 5.9 $10.99 Grade: 4-8 Item Number: 27472 This text integrates math and literacy skills and uses real-world examples to help grade 5 students explore math in a meaningful way. Students will practice multiplying decimals while engaged in reading about how miniature models equal big fun. |
The Winning Angle |
CSI |
Package Design |
Hurricane Hunters |
STEM Careers: Reinventing Robotics |
Fun and Games: Building Miniature Models: Multiplying Decimals |
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Level: 4.6 $8.99 |
Level: 5.9 $8.99 |
Level: 6.8 $8.99 |
Level: 6.9 $8.99 |
Level: 7.8 $11.99 |
Level: 5.9 $10.99 |
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Item Number: 10913 |
Item Number: 10921 |
Item Number: 14460 |
Item Number: 14462 |
Item Number: 25623 |
Item Number: 27472 |
Each Booster Card includes 8 activities that require students to apply different strategies and use different modalities in their mathematics practice. The activities encourage mathematical discourse, promote real-world connections, and support and engage multimodal learners in mathematical practices and processes. Each Booster Card also includes a Mathematician Checklist that prompts students to their best work. Each card contains 100 minutes of activities for a total of 600 minutes.
Overview Cards for teachers include a book summary, lesson objectives, guided reading level, lexile level, mathematics vocabulary, and cross-content connections.
This useful resource facilitates successful implementation of the program. It includes an overview of research, standards correlations, instructional best practices, and grouping and scheduling options. It provides differentiation suggestions to help English language learners and below- and above-level students access the content and communicate their comprehension.
PDFs of the books, Booster Cards, student response pages, student activity sheets, and assessment rubrics are included on the USB device. Additionally, professional audio recordings of the books are also provided.
