Looking for an intervention for your students? The Intervention Tools Chart is designed to be used by educators as a resource to locate interventions, instructional practices, and learning strategies that can be used within an RtI process. Please note: the listing of specific tools is not meant as an endorsement by the NYS RtI MS DP or the NYSED. Rather, it is up to the consumer to research selected tools for evidence of effectiveness. The chart contains three types of tools that are either free or available for purchase: commercial programs, instructional practices, and learning strategies.
Accelerated Math® is a software tool that provides practice problems for students in grades K–12. Accelerated Math® creates individualized student assignments, scores the assignments, and generates reports on student progress. This is a supplementary program to be used in conjunction with the math curriculum used in the classroom. The software is designed to add practice for students and help teachers differentiate instruction through the program’s progress-monitoring data.
Connected Mathematics Project (CMP) is a math curriculum for students in grades 6–8. It uses interactive problems and everyday situations to explore mathematical ideas, with a goal of fostering a problem-centered, inquiry-based learning environment.
DreamBox Learning, available in English and Spanish, is a supplemental online mathematics program that provides adaptive instruction for students in grades K–5 and focuses on number and operations, place value, and number sense.
The program aims to individualize instruction for each student through the adaptive nature of the program - it is intended to match each student’s level of comprehension and learning preferences. The curriculum is based on the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) standards.
Pathblazer is web-based math and ELA curriculum designed around animated video lessons for students in K - 8 who are working below grade level. The program sets students on individual learning paths through both built-in and external diagnostics.
Saxon Math is a curriculum for students in grades K–12. In this program, students practice concepts on a daily basis. New concepts are developed, reviewed, and practiced cumulatively rather than in discrete chapters or units.
Transition Mathematics is a one-year mathematics curriculum focusing on applied arithmetic, pre-algebra, and pre-geometry skills. It also addresses word problems, types of numbers, contexts for problems and aims to promote mathematical reading skills.