Whitman Elementary - Tulsa Public Schools

Grade / Instructional Focus: 3rd Grade Mathematics
Groups: _X_ Regular; _X_ IEP; _X_ ELL; _X_ Econ. Disadvantaged; _X_ Race; X_ Gender
Goal: All third grade students will demonstrate mathematics proficiency at grade level or
above grade level on the Oklahoma Core Curriculum Test.
Achievement Objective / Benchmark (median scores or assessment nomenclature):
Standard Objective PASS Current %
or
assessment
nomenclature
Patterns &
Algebraic
Reasoning
8/18%
Problem Solving
4 test items
@ least half
will score __
as %
or assessment
nomenclature
Years as
Issue
1.2 63% 88% 07-08,
08-09
Number Sense
7/16%
Whole Numbers &
Fractions
4 test items
2.2 50% 75% 06-07,
07-08
Interventions / Strategies:
The following research-based strategies have been chosen specifically to meet the needs of
students of each gender and race as well as those who are Special Needs or economically
challenged. Female students benefit from verbal interaction, descriptive narration, and
expressing emotional connections/experiences to the information. Male students benefit from
simple, analytic explanation, kinesthetic movement, and visual images to aid in retention of
information. According to Ruby Payne, economically challenged students, need to know the
“why” and “how” of a topic, before they can learn it. With those needs in mind, the following
interventions/strategies have been chosen:
1.2
Third grade teachers will use graphic organizers and t-charts to teach problem solving
strategies. Third grade teachers will expose their students to “Daily Math Problems” as well
as integrated reading.
2.2
Third Grade teachers will use meta cognitive strategies to teach students how to order
fractions and decimals on a number line. Asking students to verbalize their thinking while
working helps students become aware of their thinking process and improve problem-solving
so that they become aware of the strategies they use. Using money as a reference activates
students’ previous knowledge and helps students use the decimal system efficiently.
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