What’s New?
Have you ever gotten a message from a parent that goes something like this: “How can I help my child with math at home since the way you’re teaching it is nothing like the way I was taught?”
If so, Tang Math can now help!
The video tutorial above will show you how you can either add one singular class login that all your students and parents can use or individual logins for every student. Once you create logins for your students, both students and parents will have access to the lessons you assign, whether they are concrete, pictorial, abstract or all 3 versions. They can click through the problems just like you are able to do in the classroom. They will not, however, be able to change the dropdown parameters like teachers are able to do.
You also can assign pdf versions of the worksheets & Brain Builders that go with each lesson so that parents can choose to print at home for extra practice. The New Tools: Student/Parent Access video above does a great job explaining how to use this new feature in greater detail. Log into your Tang Math subscription and click here to go directly to the video.
Best Ways to Utilize the Tang Math Subscription
In addition to supplementing the EM4 curriculum and doing a concrete, pictorial, or abstract whole class lesson, using Tang Math along with your students’ most recent MAP scores can give you a great starting point in which to formatively assess your students to reach them where they are and help fill in those gaps in learning or provide enrichment opportunities.
So how do you do that?
Login to your NWEA MAP account via Clever and go to MAP Growth Reports. First, click on the Class Breakdown by RIT report and be sure to select Class Breakdown by Instructional Area.
Once you have printed the Class Breakdown by RIT report (see sample below), you can then click on the Learning Continuum report (see above).
Note: The numbers in the parentheses next to student names represent their total MAP score, not their score in the instructional area.
Once in the Learning Continuum report, select your grade level as well as several grades below.
Using the Class Breakdown by RIT example, we see three students with a Numbers and Operations RIT score between 151-160. Notice on the Learning Continuum report above, it shows four learning statements for 2.NBT.A.2 – Count within 1000; skip-count by 5s, 10s, and 100s under that RIT range. This is a good place to begin formatively assessing these students. If there are no statements for a particular RIT score, it means that the student(s) might not be ready to learn that content yet. Teachers should be making “where to begin” decisions by not only using MAP RIT ranges but also formative assessment and other classroom data.
So now that we know that this student may need some targeted instruction on 2.NBT.A.2, what do we do next? Here is where Tang Math comes in!
Once you are logged into Tang Math, click on “Curriculum” and then “Standards.” Next, select the grade level. In this case, we’re looking at grade 2.
Scroll down until you reach 2.NBT.2
Preview the lessons next to the standard and use the bulleted learning statements on the Learning Continuum report to change the drop-down parameters in Tang Math to begin formatively assessing the students listed in that RIT band for Numbers and Operations.
If you notice that the students are already proficient with this, look in the RIT range that is one higher for that standard and see what additional learning statements have been added or what standard in the next grade level should be formatively assessed. If you notice that the students are struggling, go down to the previous RIT range for that standard and see which learning statements should be formatively assessed.
One More Tang Tidbit
Did you know that you can add your students' names to your Tang account so that they appear in word problems?
Click on the down arrow below your class name, and then select "Profile."
Scroll down to "Word Problem Names" and enter your students' first names so that they'll appear in any of the word problem tools/lessons.
Now your students' names will be in all Tang story problems!
If you’d like more information on how to access the MAP reports mentioned in this post or how to use them to help drive your WIN time instruction, reach out to your math coach.
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