Rules of Engagement
Teaching Icons are guides for the use of _ _ _.
What are Mathnasium teaching Constructs?
This is the full phrase for the acronym K.I.S.S.
What is Keep it Short and Simple?
Skills ensured before spresenting students with techniques that require their use.
What aer neccessary pre requisite skills?
This concept transforms one number into another.
What is counting?
Holding the students mental focus for an extended period of time as they interact with Instructor.
What is engagement?
To avoid confusing nomenclature we use Mathnasium vocabulary also called _.
What is Natural Language?
The average number of pages completed in the last session.
What is the Session Page Goal?
the phrase used to describe how the program meets each students needs for instruction
What is exactly where they are?
The Ratio is Constant defines this concept as a mathematical idea,
What is Proportion?
the process of the student seeing the connection between the current content and previously learned material
What is the Transfer of Knowledge?
The two specific teaching methods listed that are to be used when appropriate.
What are Socratic Questioning and Direct Teaching?
When appropriate, our Instructors use manipulative to guide and reinforce students' thinking.
What is Tactile?
The tool that guides students' thought processes and is gradually phased out as students progress.
What are PK's?
The name-value of the thing.
What is Denomination?
The understanding of ones own thought process.
What is Metacognition?
If a student is having trouble, you should "fall back on " this type of knowledge.
What is prerequisite knowledge?
The ability to appreciate the size and scale of numbers in the context of the question at hand.
What is Number Sense?
The term used to describe the type of language for multiplication that states "5x 3 means 5, 3 times.'
What is naturla language
Apples + bananas does not make banapples.
What is the law of sameness?
The process of observing students at work and "inserting" yourself into their world the moment they need help and guidance.
What is Intervention?
This is what you should do instead of repeating an explanation that isn't working.
What is try another approach?
The study of wholes and parts and the relationship between them.
What is Mathematics?
Three adjectives used to describing the techniques taught that leverage what students already know when learning multiplication and division facts.
What are efficient, reliable, and effective?
The practice used to help students develop Proportional Thinking .
What is Reasoning in Groups?
The practice of "reading the floor" as you are working with a student to observe the needs of the rest of the students in the room.
What is Heads-Up teaching?