TransMath is the comprehensive mathematics intervention that provides key foundational skill-building and problem-solving experiences by targeting instruction with fewer topics, taught in greater depth.

TransMath simultaneously teaches foundational computational skills while providing the rich, grade-level, problem-solving experiences necessary for high-stakes assessments.

According to the National Mathematics Advisory Panel's Final Report. "To prepare students for Algebra, the curriculum must simultaneously develop conceptual understanding, computational fluency, and problem-solving skills."

TransMath lessons are broken into two strands to help reduce the amount of cognitive overload from staying on one concept for an entire class period. There are several benefits to starting with Building Number Concepts and then moving to Problem Solving within the same lesson.

Students are taught concepts and skills in the order in which they need to learn them—from developing number sense to thinking algebraically. The Building Number Concepts Strand develops conceptual understanding of number, operation, and pre-algebra topics through:

	Teacher Modeling
	Engagement Strategies
	Extensive Use of Visual Models
	Apply Skills Activities

With TransMath, students apply previously learned concepts and engage in critical thinking to solve multistep problems needed for higher mathematics or the working world. The Problem-Solving Strand develops conceptual understanding of geometry, measurement, data, and probability through:

	Teacher Modeling
	Engagement Strategies
	Extensive Use of Visual Models
	Rich, Grade-Level, Problem-Solving Activities

Assessment Guides Instruction

Comprehensive assessment system provides teachers with the measures they need to accurately place students into the curriculum and to monitor their progress though the curriculum. It furnishes the teacher with the data necessary to inform instruction to ensure each student meets his or her goals.

TransMath placement is based on students' skill levels, not grade levels. The Placement Assessments were developed using traditional math concepts that address commonly identified deficit areas found in struggling math students. Students may place into one of these three entry points.

The TransMath mBook is a powerful online resource for both students and teachers.

	Entire Student Text to review missed concepts
	Teacher-Talk Tutorials to reinforce difficult concepts
	Interactive Reinforcement Exercises to review, reinforce, and practice missed concepts

TransMath mBook Teacher Edition support teachers in the successful, daily implementation of the TransMath comprehensive curriculum. It offers

	Complete Teacher Guide
	Downloadable Interactive Click-Thru slideshow presentations using visual models to concretely develop concepts
	Teacher-Talk Tutorials to review and reinforce lesson concepts using narrated models
	Downloadable Form B Retests for Quizzes and End-of-Unit Assessments

Every lesson has a predictable, four-part lesson structure. Every lesson begins with an at-a-glance Lesson Planner that outlines everything a teacher needs to know at their fingertips.

Each lesson begins with a warm-up activity to maintain skills and distribute practice of key concepts and skills. Skills Maintenance serves as a perfect classroom management tool—students begin each day with this quick, but effective review.

The first half of each TransMath lesson focuses on number concepts and skills. This section of the lesson provides rich visual models, abundant guidance practice and independent practice—the perfect I do, we do, you do approach to explicit teaching of core foundational skills.

The latter half of the lesson provides students the opportunity to apply those key foundational skills in a problem—solving environment. Topics such as geometry, data analysis, probability and statistics—all of the NCTM topics and strands are incorporated into a problem-solving, application environment. This truly is the heart of the lesson and the cornerstone of mathematical proficiency—to apply computational fluency and higher math skills—the basis of rich mathematical proficiency.

Each lesson ends with a homework opportunity that provides daily, independent practice with lesson concepts and skills as well as earlier learned skills for continued distributed practice.

We all know practice is important—and daily reinforcement of newly learned skills is critical to success. Immediate feedback, the chance for remediation before moving forward—and rich opportunities for students to feel successful and gain confidence in their math abilities—all of these are elements of effective teaching and learning.

Visual models take the place of extensive text explanations and provide engaging opportunities for students to build conceptual understanding. Each lesson begins with a visual model and a question to incorporate the explicit explanation in both the teacher material and on the student page.