Proactive Mathematics Intervention, High School: Priming for Success Through Engaging Tasks and Purposeful Design
Too many high school students placed in Tier 2 and Tier 3 intervention receive the same instruction—repeated, remediated, and reduced. The result: widening gaps, diminished confidence, and continued barriers to course-level content. Proactive Mathematics Interventions, High School, offers a transformative alternative. Built on a strengths-based, proactive priming model, this resource helps teachers, coaches, and administrators prepare students who need intervention for what is coming mathematically—rather than reacting to what they missed. By building foundational understandings before new course content is introduced, students arrive at grade-level lessons ready to participate, contribute, and succeed.
Grounded in the leading research in mathematics and special education, this volume provides:
- 30 intervention tasks spanning 81 activities across key high school topics—integers and operations, ratios and proportional relationships, expressions, equations and inequalities, functions, measurement, and data and statistics
- Embedded formative assessment techniques—observations, interviews, Show Me prompts, hinge questions, and exit tasks—to monitor student progress and inform instructional next steps
- Ready-to-use printables, concrete-semiconcrete-abstract (CSA) representations, and bridging prompts that connect intervention directly to classroom instruction
- Practical planning tools and end-of-chapter reflection questions designed to support collaborative team use in professional learning communities
When educators shift from fixing students to fixing the structures that are not serving them, every student gains the foundation to access meaningful mathematics—and the confidence to own it.
Table of Contents
Part 1: Introduction to Priming
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Characteristics of Effective Strengths-Based Interventions
Chapter 3: Formative Assessment
Chapter 4: Your Turn - Proactive Preventative Mathematics Intervention Model in Action
Part 2: Putting Priming Into Action
Chapter 5: Intervention Tasks
Task 1 – Rational Riddles
Tasks 2 - Computation Riddles
Task 3 – Quotient Quest
Task 4 – Fall Fest
Task 5 – Cosmic Convergence
Task 6 – Branching Out
Task 7 – Elis Expressions
Task 8 – Express Yourself
Task 9 – Crystal Ball
Task 10 – Game Boss Floor
Task 11 – Finding Balance
Task 12 – Solution Strategies
Task 13 – Guess My Rule
Task 14 – Graph Stories
Task 15 – National Parks
Task 16 – Linear or Not
Task 17 – Graph It
Task 18 – Rising Levels
Task 19 – Even Trades
Task 20 – Shelf by Shelf
Task 21 – Powerful Paper Strips
Task 22 – Polygon Designers
Task 23 – Triangle Truths
Task 24 – Cover it
Task 25 – Popcorn Possibilities
Task 26 – Exploring Circles
Task 27 – Mapping Motion
Task 28 – Scaleon
Task 29 - Blockheads
Task 30 – Race to Zero
Appendix A – Interventions at a Glance
References
Published: Jan 12, 2027
ISBN: 9798348838171
SKU: 9798348838171
Publisher: Corwin Press
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