Finding resources to support math intervention for struggling learners can be a challenge. Compared to reading, mathematics gets so little attention! The great news is that I've spent some time scouring the internet in search of the best websites with resources to build math skills and support interventions.
These amazing websites for math intervention all contain helpful resources to support students in building essential skills for success in the core areas of math including number sense, TPYE HERE.
Taking a Data-Based Approach to planning math interventions
I firmly believe it is important to target specific gaps when planning interventions. So today I am going to share 10 great websites to support your math intervention efforts related to these gaps.
The best way to target gaps is with high-quality data from a formative assessment tool. While it can be harder to find math diagnostics, there are some available. Here are a few options :
However, free options are also available if you're working on your own or your district doesn't have a budget for these. Here's a list of free math diagnostics to help you gather that essential data.
Once you have that information, you can dig through this list to find many free or low-cost resources, including targeted lessons for specific math skills, assessment/progress monitoring tools, and both online and printable intervention supports.
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Free Math Intervention Tools to Use with Struggling Students
The websites shared below have great printable and digital resources for Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 interventions. You'll find many of them focus on key numeracy skills, since these are critical to math success.
1. Delta Math
Targeted Skills: Number Sense, Fractions, Computational Fluency, Subitizing, and all CCSS through Algebra
Level: Tier 2 & Tier 3
This website has a plethora of amazing resources. Not only does it include screening materials, you can also find Tier 2 and Tier 3 intervention resources all for free.
Originating from Michigan, you can print off ready-to-use teacher lesson plans, printables, and graphic organizers needed for each intervention lesson. There's truly a ton to unpack here, so you'll want to spend some time digging through all the resources to ensure you've tapped into everything you might need.
Everything you need can be found using the header menu at the top of the webpage.
2. Georgia Numeracy Project
Targeted Skills: Numeracy
Level: Tier 1, Tier 2, possibly Tier 3
This site is really quite extensive, and it includes everything you need to intervene effectively. You can quickly and easily print a master copy of the intervention binder, and find diagnostic assessments to administer.
From there, you've got planning resources, games, and lessons to help you intervene with struggling learners.
These materials are built from the New Zealand Numeracy project, so if you're looking for the originals they are also available (and free) here.
Visit the website.
3. Kentucky Center for Mathematics
Targeted Skills:
Level: Varies by materials
This website has many free resources, but there are a few that stood out when I was looking for materials to use with my struggling and reluctant learners. The Learning Math through Representations (LMR) curriculum has some great lessons for supporting mastery of positive integers, fractions, and negative integers. These units are printable and ready for download.
There are also some awesome activities for building math fact fluency on the site. Games and activities are broken down to help you build a foundation, target strategies, and assess facts in a way that is engaging for learners. Here's where to find them: Math Fact Fluency Activities & Assessments.
While there are a million great resources on this site that can support your intervention efforts, I'd also recommend checking out the printable math tools if you're short on manipulatives to help you build conceptual understanding.
Visit the Kentucky Center for Mathematics website to check out all these great resources and more.
4. Xtramath
Targeted Skills: Computational Fluency
Level: Tier 1 & Tier 2
A quick and easy intervention for math fact fluency. The site includes great data and offers support for struggling learners.
Students work to quickly answer basic computation and build fluency and accuracy. If it takes a student too long to answer, the program gives them a visual cue with the answer, but they still have to enter it. Over time the program rotates through the problems the student has yet to master, working them toward fluency.
Over time the program rotates through the problems the student has yet to master, working them toward fluency.
As with any site, it has some pros and cons. One pro is that it is great for students who are accurate but not yet fluent with their math facts. You might use it in conjunction with these great math fact games. That being said, it isn't great for kids who are still building a conceptual understanding of computation.
5. Mathematics Assessment Project (MAP)
Targeted Skills: Middle & High School Math Skills
Level: Tier 1 & Tier 2
So many websites just cover the basics, and they don't hit on those higher-level math concepts. This website is great for Tier 1 and Tier 2 intervention for more advanced math classes.
The site has lesson plans and printable materials that make it easy to implement, and there are many hands-on performance tasks.
One thing I really liked about the site, is that there are performance tasks are sorted from “novice” to “expert” meaning you can do some differentiating in your classroom to best support all learners. While you're working with your struggling students to build conceptual knowledge using a novice task, you can be challenging your advanced learners.
The tasks are also all real-life scenarios, which makes them engaging and purposeful.
6. Freckle
Targeted Skills: Standards-based math skills
Level: Tier 1
This site offers a free teacher account and is great for those students who need a Tier 1 reteach and extra guided practice and support. The program begins with a diagnostic assessment, which helps you identify gaps and targets for support.
With built-in assessment and differentiation, the program monitors how students progress. It also gives modeling and visuals for problem-solving. This is great for those students who are struggling with a specific concept or just-below grade-level standard. Plus it works on tablets!
There are also K-2 friendly lessons and resources on this site, which isn't always the case with math intervention sites.
While it isn't for Tier 2 or Tier 3 interventions, one pro of the site is that it offers a computer-adaptive format and robust reporting that can help you determine when extra exposure and reteaching aren't enough. This can help you come to SST meetings better prepared to advocate for learners.
Visit the Freckle website to sign up for free.
7. ESTAR
Targeted Skills: Place Value, Computation, Fractions, Decimals
Level: Tier 2
These Tier 2 intervention modules are from Texas and they target the entire lesson sequence from introduction to independent practice. The scripted lessons are designed to be systematic and offer explicit math instruction.
The nice thing is that each module, or unit, includes everything you need. Teacher lesson books, student activity sheets, display master copies, and activities are all shared for free. There are also multiple forms for the assessments so you can use these to monitor progress across time.
8. First Steps in Mathematics
Targeted Skills: Place Value, Computation, Number Sense, and Geometry
Level: Tier 1, possibly Tier 2
These are downloadable teacher resource books that focus on core skills. The books are divided by topic and cover the topics of data, geometry, measurement, numbers & number sense, and operations.
They provide lessons and activities for a broad range of grade levels, but the books are organized to make it clear and easy to find what you need.
Planning materials, lessons, and performance tasks are all included in the books, which you can download individually or as a full set.
9. Pirate Math Quest
Targeted Skills: Word Problems
Level: Tier 1 & Tier 2
This resource is designed in a format that is engaging for learners and is an extension of the work done by Vanderbilt University. The research that has been done with the intervention, targeted third graders, and it provides teacher materials, student materials, and supplemental materials that help students better understand the common structures of word problems.
The site has embedded videos for support and it offers ways to teach these skills individually or to a small group.
Unrelated to intervention, there is a section that offers Texas teachers a way to support students in preparing for the word problems they'll encounter on the STAAR test.
Check out the Pirate Math Quest materials.
10. New Jersey Center for Teaching & Learning
Targeted Skills: Expressions & Equations, Fractions, Functions, Geometry, Measurement, Number Systems, Base 10, Operations, Ratios & Proportions, and Statistics
Level: Tier 1
These materials are really step-by-step, and they would be good for an in-class Tier 1 intervention for struggling learners. They really are all-inclusive and have the presentation materials, teacher resources, hands-on labs, and even homework.
This site covers K-8 standards. It offers a good starting place and has many resources that could be easily incorporated into the typical classroom structure to support students in need of intervention.
That being said, it isn't designed to be a print-and-go site. You'll need to come prepared with the skills your students need support on and spend some time searching the materials to find the best fit for your learners.
11. Jim Wright Online
This site by intervention guru Jim Wright is perfect for helping guide systemic math interventions at Tier 1. Each intervention is set up as a quick read and can be implemented at Tier 1 with little extra stress.
The great part about each of these is that you can easily download and print the directions for implementing the research-based interventions. However, the site itself is a little rough around the edges. You'll also want to leave time to prep the materials you need for your intervention.
12. EasyCBM
This site has a great assortment of CBM probes for progress monitoring in both reading and math.
Options for math monitoring vary by grade level and focus on core skills like numbers and operations, measurement, geometry, and numbers and operations/algebra, and there are nine probes for each. There are both digital and print versions available for all probes.
The assessments are available for grades K-8.
The lite version is free, and sign-up takes less than 5 minutes. Perfect for the busy classroom teacher to collect data for SST.
13. Formative Loop
Targeted Skills: Computational Fluency
Level: Tier 1 & Tier 2
Okay, so I am going to start with a caveat on this one. The site is paid, but it offers a free trial…and one of the longest I've seen. You can access and use Formative Loop for up to a year.
The idea of this one is that students are given personalized practice and that practice informs the problems the students receive the next day. Basically, it's the same concept as repeated reading, but for math.
While not ideal for students lacking conceptual understanding, it is great for building fluency. A major pro is that it takes five minutes of your instructional day. That's it!
14. Intervention Central
Targeted Skills: Varies
Level: Tier 2 & Tier 3
Focused on providing teachers the strategies that are research-based for intervention, Intervention Central is an amazing resource.
Unlike some of the other sites I am listing, this one will take you a bit more time to read and process, but it outlines all the steps for some strong, research-based intervention strategies, along with citations so you can read the original study (if that is your thing).
PROS: Research-based interventions with step-by-step directions & references
CONS: Not the prettiest site; not print & use
Getting started with digital resources for math RTI
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