Math Intervention Kit

Northern York Elementary School

Goal: Students will solve addition and subtraction equations with unlike
denominators. (Procedural)

Instructional plan:
Includes relevant
sections of the systems
model of instruction that
align best with the
design of the
intervention kit.

Standard:
Found on pdesas.org;
Pennsylvania State
Standards

Essential content:
Basic information
needed for addition and
subtraction of fractions
with unlike
denominators

Evidence based practices:

SLO (mastery):
Carbonneau, K. J., Marley, S.C., & Selig, J.P. (2012). A meta-analysis of the efficacy of teaching Consistent with
mathematics with concrete manipulatives. Journal of Educational Psychology,
105(2), 380-400. doi: 10.1037/a0031084
instructional goal;
1. Concrete math manipulatives for fractions (Mean effect size: .69) measurable, identified
2. Concrete math manipulatives for problem – solving (Mean effect size: .46)
3. Concrete math manipulatives for retention of learning (Mean effect size: . 59) group, deadline, and skill
Right: An example of Pizza Please!
1
Students created addition equations
using pizza fractions as manipulatives.

*Examples of addition and subtraction

cards used for Pizza Please!, Fraction
Subtraction, Addition and Subtraction
Bingo, and Fraction Land are pictured
below.
Above right : Fraction Subtraction; students
use manipulatives in a fashion similar to the
Pizza Please! activity. Students draw a card
and then set up and solve the equation.

Below left: Example of a bingo board. One

was created for addition and one for
subtraction bingo. Students would draw a
card, solve equation using any manipulative,
and cross off boxes as done in regular bingo.

Right: Fraction Land; Students pick up a

card from the Fraction Land card stack.
They may use manipulatives or any
other method to find the answer to the
problem they have chosen (problems
include word problems and various
representations of addition and
subtraction sentences). If they get the
question right, they move their game
piece ahead two spaces.