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  • IXL.com – Excellent Tool for Differentiation

    IXL.com – Excellent Tool for Differentiation

    IXL.com is a site that provides online practice for math (and other topics). It has a hidden feature that allows for very effective differentiation. This can be highly useful in a general ed math class and in settings for special education services. This includes special ed settings with students working on a wide ranges of…

  • Randy on Dana Jonson’s Podcast: Lots of Information about Math

    I was a guest on special ed attorney Dana Jonson‘s podcast. Below are links to items I cited in the discussion. There is a contact information form in this post. Strategy to individualize instruction Tandem of Online Resources: IXL.com and Google Classroom Online Worksheets I recommend Concepts vs Skills

  • IXL and Google Classroom

    Here is what we are doing at home during school closure time. I created a Google Classroom (anyone with Google account can create a class on the Google Classroom app) and posted links to IXL topics (photo at bottom). (NOTE: this is one method I use to differentiate at school.) If the school is providing…

  • Targeting Gaps in a Math Topic

    A key to intervention for math is to drill down into a topic to see which step is causing a student problems. This is a big reason why ongoing progress monitoring is vital to intervention. In this case a student in a previous session had occasionally added the percent to the dollar amounts – the…