I'm looking for a tier 3 intervention curriculum geared towards middle school students. I got tier 3 added to my plate about 4 years ago, with little to no instruction on what to actually do, other than "fill the gaps".

I see my tier 3 students for about 30 minutes 3 days per week. Not ideal, but what I'm working with. I also don't see all of them each of those 3 days, because they might have reading intervention, EL, or SDI scheduled at the same time.

I tried Bridges intervention curriculum last year and liked it. My kids did great on the Bridges assessments, but did not show growth on their iready, which is our maij way of deciding who is in intervention. I'm considering using the iready elementary curriculum this year to be more aligned to the diagnostic, but it is geared more towards a full elementary class with time every day for math.

I've looked all over, but can't find a dedicated tier 3 intervention curriculum for middle school students. What are people using?!

I loved this perspective from a Colorado teacher on how making math a bigger part of students’ everyday lives can help build confidence, tackle math anxiety, and even make math more fun.

Read more from The Colorado Sun: https://coloradosun.com/2026/09/01/opinion-colorado-students-math-education-anxiety/

if you are teaching sat math using khan academy, you might want to add desmos and ref sheet to teh broswer window:

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sat-math-toolbox-ref-shee/hkflbpkbhdlhikfbophoenepogkpklnf

this extension helps me teach sat math easily to my students with the floating desmos window like on the actual sat test

Hi everyone! I'm a Kennesaw State University college student and math educator/tutor who has worked with high-school students in calculus. Through that experience, I've become really interested in how game-based learning can help students practice difficult concepts in a more interactive way.

I've also had the opportunity to test game-based math activities in different classroom settings, and I'm currently exploring whether physical educational games can be both useful for educators and viable as professionally produced classroom resources.

For those who teach or tutor Algebra II, Precalculus, Trigonometry, Calculus, or similar subjects:

1. Do you use physical games or hands-on activities to reinforce difficult math concepts?
2. Have you ever personally purchased an educational game or supplemental resource for your students? If not, does your school or organization typically purchase those resources?
3. What would make a physical educational game worth paying for when free worksheets, printable activities, Quizlet, Kahoot, and other resources already exist?
4. What would make you decide not to purchase one?
5. Would you prefer an individual/small-group game or a classroom set containing multiple copies and educator instructions?
6. What price range would you consider reasonable for an individual educational card game? What about a complete classroom set?

I'm especially interested in honest feedback about purchasing decisions not just whether educational games sound like a good idea. I'm trying to understand what educators actually value and pay for when choosing supplemental math resources.

Thanks for any insight!

I’ve always felt like a lot of college material is way harder to understand than it needs to be.

You search something like the chain rule, orbital motion, electric fields, etc. and usually get either:

• a wall of text
• equations with barely any intuition
• a 20–40 minute YouTube video
• or an AI explanation that is technically correct but still hard to see

So I’ve been building SeeThrough, where you type in a concept/question and it generates an interactive visual explanation so you can actually see what’s happening instead of just reading about it.

For example, instead of asking:

“Why do planets orbit the Sun?”

and getting 6 paragraphs explaining gravity, you’d get a visual showing the planet, velocity, gravitational force, trajectory, etc. while the explanation walks you through it.

But I’m obviously biased because I’m building it.

So I want students to tear the idea apart:

Would you actually use something like this while studying?

And more importantly:

What subject/concept have you tried to learn where you thought, “I wish someone would just SHOW me what’s happening”?

Math? Physics? Chemistry? CS? Economics? Something else?

I’m looking for concepts to test SeeThrough on, so give me the hardest/weirdest one you can think of.

guys im planning to take crash course for math from pakistan for my may/june 27 exams but im confused on whether i should take mathlete by saad or zainematics.

whose crash course is better? pls help

At my school you can give extra lessons to kids that need it. I was asking myself how i can best teach these kids these subjects. I myself am not bad in math but i don’t really know how i can help others with it. Do i give them exercises and check if they did them the good way? Or do i explain the exercise ? Or any other way ?

Any help will be appreciated.

https://reddit.com/link/1w1t1ld/video/ag1rfjwkqcmh1/player

I originally built MathDefy for my own kids because I wanted them to practice math regularly in a simple and engaging way.

It focuses on addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, with different difficulty levels and progress tracking.

After using it with my children, I decided to publish it for other families too. It's free on Android.

I'm especially interested in feedback from math teachers and educators: what would you change or add to make an app like this more useful for children learning math?

Google Play:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mathdefy.app

Let's Catch the Variable! is an edutainment game made to teach math. It's what I wanted to have when I was in school.

It has gameplay where you solve integer arithmetic problems by shooting the solution at them, it has minigames that cover smaller concepts such as prime factorization, and it has procedurally generated problem sheets.

Education is the core focus of the gameplay, every part of the gameplay is focused on mental exercise, and almost everything is procedurally generated.

Full disclosure: It was made more from my experience as a gamer than as a teacher. I have had no official teaching position, and everything is drawn from my own knowledge. It has full explanations of relevant concepts, but they're not going to be the appeal of the game. I believe drilling and reviewing concepts to be the game's primary strengths. The game allows for very casual, comfortable, and concentrated math practice.

But the game technically isn't all math, as there's some non-math minigames. Like a geography game that might actually be the best part of the game.

It is a paid product, but there is a free demo that contains the core components of the game.

The gameplay is kept simple and is designed around short play sessions.

It is intended to be played occasionally as a way to practice, maintain, and improve your math skills.

Suitable for all age groups, the game offers many configuration options, allowing players to adjust the difficulty and gameplay to their needs.

Players can invite others and compete against each other to see who gets the best results.

An account system allows registered players to view their performance and track their progress.

The game is even more fun when played with friends.

It is completely free to play.

Hello everyone im a 3rd year student taking bachelors major in math and i need math teachers to answer a short survey just 25 items: 10 yes or no questions its about ict use in the classroom it wont take longer than 10 mins. Please help out a future math teacher🙏🙏🙏

Hi, if you're here and you're anything like me, you find math very interesting. But, it's a lonely world out there, full of tumble weeds, passing on by. It's hard to find folks out here, especially those going the same way.

Jokes aside, if anyone in the metro would like the opportunity to have a say in supporting the formation of the group, please feel free to contribute I would love to be able to talk math with other people who themselves are very interested in mathematics. If you feel the same, the input would be much appreciated.

I am trying to do a reading group at my university which covers calculus of variations. I want to do a mixture of classical calculus of variations (smooth functions), and some modern day calculus of variations. Ideas for textbooks? Note that we are math majors, so we don’t want to (exclusively) use something like Taylor’s

The issue is that our group is coming from a variety of backgrounds. We are requiring that everyone has taken analysis 1, though. The issues might come when we transition to modern calculus of variations, so I don’t know what to do about that. I don’t know too much about calculus of variations, so if you have any thoughts on that, please let me know. How’s it going? Redhead How’s it going out there?

Here is what i am thinking: the first 3 chapters out of Gelfand and Fonin for a classical look, then transitioning over to some other book (need recommendations).

Have you ever needed to show why negative exponents are positive in the denominator? I recall (when I was in school) just getting a definition and running with it. My students are giving me puzzled looks in this part of the unit, and I'm considering showing them the reasoning. If you have explained the logic (I assume it's an extension of the zero exponent) was it effective?

Buen día, soy nuevo en la comunidad y pido ayuda para la obtención del material que ahorita comparto a ustedes. Me encuentro estudiando una maestría en educación matemática y quisiera tener los libros en formato PDF.

Hello everyone!

This summer I read How I Wish I'd Taught Maths by Craig Barton and I really loved it. I will be teaching grade 9 Integrated Math 1 which is a mix of algebra and geometry.

I want to try implement strategies from the book...

1) Broadly centered around explicit instruction, thoughtful introduction of topics through example, and regular retrieval and interleaving.

2) Specifically I want to use strategies/materials such as example-problem pairs, supercharged worked examples, backwards fading, intelligent practice, purposeful practice, interleaving, diagnostic questions, low-stakes quizzes, Same Surface Different Deep problems....

The online book the school provided for me does not line up with the teaching philosophies from Barton. It seems pretty good, but just not what I am looking for introducing topics.

I am a bit overwhelmed trying to plan this, and am concerned because I have a pretty full class schedule this year.

Does anyone have any materials, plans, resources, websites... that they can recommend for me? I am particularly interested in a curriculum map or complete sequences, not only isolated worksheets (though anything is welcome)

Some websites I have found that seem great are VariationTheory.com and mrbartonmaths.com

Any help is greatly appreciated, and thank you very much for your time :)

Hello all,

I took calc 1 last semester and I did really well conceptually, but when it came time for exams I did not do too well. I never had a true foundation in the wide array of precalc content, i basically skipped the course. I seek to take the full calc sequence and so going back to precalc to actually learn it makes the most sense. If I try to retake calc 1 this fall semester I may do good, but I will not be prepared for calc 2. From those who’ve recently taken both precalc and then calc with or without the full calc sequence, what do you think I should expect with precalc content? Ofc it’s all in prep for calc, but how quickly should I pick up on the content considering that I’ve done well with calc 1 conceptually?

Thank you! 🙏🏾