2. Student practice math skills using materials in which the
problem and solutions to each problem are provided.
Requires prior knowledge of the students.
Provides immediate feedback even without the teacher.
What is this strategy?
4. What are the critical elements of this strategy?
Materials provide both appropriate math skill prompts and
solutions.
Materials provide easy to follow directions.
Materials are inexpensive.
Provides students multiple practice opportunities.
5. What are the critical elements of this strategy?
Students should demonstrate at least an initial ability to
perform the math skill independently.
Response record is required.
Students should use a variety of self-correcting materials.
Student performance using self-correcting materials
should not be graded.
6. How to implement the strategy?
1. Identify appropriate math skill for student practice.
2. Incorporate materials that include the features listed in
Critical Components.
3. Model how to perform the math skill using each self-
correcting material.
7. How to implement the strategy?
4. Ensure that students clearly understand how to use the
self-correcting material.
5. Periodically monitor students who are using self-
correcting materials.
6. Provide students with a way to record their responses.
8. How to implement the strategy?
7. Evaluate student responses by examining student
response sheets.
8. DO NOT grade student performance using self-correcting
materials.
10. A math problem or some other math learning task is put
on one side and the solution is provided on the opposite side.
FLASHCARDS
11. A milk carton or juice carton can be turned into a
"robot" by cutting two slits at the top and bottom of one side.
Students first read the math fact that is on one side. Then
they say/write the answer. They put the fact into the "math
fact robot," who then "spits out" the answer. The student can
then compare their answer to the robot's answer.
MATH FACT ROBOT
12. It is made out of tag-board or drawn on a manila folder.
Math learning task prompts are written on one side. Students
say the fact and "think"/write down the solution. Then they
place the point of their pencil in the hole, turn the figure over
and see the correct answer.
PUNCH-HOLE MATERIALS
13. How does this instructional strategy
positively impact students who have
learning problems?
14. Provides students a way to practice a particular math skill a
multiple number of times while receiving immediate feedback
on their performance.
Provides students a "risk-free" environment to practice skills
they have initially acquired through teacher instruction but
for which they have not mastered.
15. Students can evaluate their performance privately.
Provides "modeling“.
Immediate feedback provided by the self-correcting
materials helps the students.
The response record allows the teacher to evaluate the
student's performance.
16. Classroom Application
The use of flashcards for the lesson on “The formulas in
finding the area of a polygon”.