I am Ms. Edmonds and I teach the 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students at Beechwood Superintendent's Academy a class developed by Scholastic called Math 180. Math 180 is a math intervention course with an objective of reteaching and/or developing math skills that students must master to be ready to take Algebra. Before students began the class, they took a test called SMI on the computer which calculated a score measuring their progress toward algebra readiness. Students will take the test again in December and in April to measure the student's growth.
Students who have not had success in achieving grade-level proficiency may feel like math is too hard or like they just cannot learn math. Math 180 deliberately addresses what the student believes about acquiring knowledge and encourages students to persevere and believe that their effort will pay off. The can-do attitude is referred to as the growth-mindset. The growth-mindset Math 180 fosters will benefit the student in other classes and in life as it reinforces that goals are attainable and allows students to reach new heights once fixed-mindsets are shed. Please visit the Math 180 Family Portal to learn more about the Scholastic Math 180 program.
Each day students will meet together and work through a short problem called a "Do Now" for the first 10 minutes of class. After the Do Now, students rotate; one group of the class remains with the teacher for a lesson while the other group works on the Math 180 computer software program. Students rotate again after 25- 30 minutes; the group at the computers goes to the teacher-led lesson center and the group with the teacher goes to the computers. Students receive grades for classwork assignments, performance on the computer, and tests. Students will not have formal homework assignments but they are encouraged to log into Math 180 to play the games in the Brain Arcade to increase fluency in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
Students who have not had success in achieving grade-level proficiency may feel like math is too hard or like they just cannot learn math. Math 180 deliberately addresses what the student believes about acquiring knowledge and encourages students to persevere and believe that their effort will pay off. The can-do attitude is referred to as the growth-mindset. The growth-mindset Math 180 fosters will benefit the student in other classes and in life as it reinforces that goals are attainable and allows students to reach new heights once fixed-mindsets are shed. Please visit the Math 180 Family Portal to learn more about the Scholastic Math 180 program.
Each day students will meet together and work through a short problem called a "Do Now" for the first 10 minutes of class. After the Do Now, students rotate; one group of the class remains with the teacher for a lesson while the other group works on the Math 180 computer software program. Students rotate again after 25- 30 minutes; the group at the computers goes to the teacher-led lesson center and the group with the teacher goes to the computers. Students receive grades for classwork assignments, performance on the computer, and tests. Students will not have formal homework assignments but they are encouraged to log into Math 180 to play the games in the Brain Arcade to increase fluency in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.