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Day-to-Day Number Worlds

Structured to seamlessly snap into your schedule and complement any core math program, Number Worlds makes everyday learning easy, effective, and fun. Routinized lessons and weekly planners simplify time management, while digital tools like Building Blocks™ enrich daily instruction through engaging, adaptive learning that targets each student’s specific needs.

Plan Your Week With Ease

The weekly planner is your roadmap to success—mapping out an entire week of lessons complete with Learning Objectives and all the resources needed to maximize instructional time. Each planner is prefaced by a brief overview of the week, background information, and refreshers for the mathematics principles relevant to the unit.

chart for Number Worlds Learning Objectives and Program Materials shown in Lessons 1-5

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Weekly Planner

The weekly planner lists objectives that explain how the key concepts are developed lesson by lesson and which resources can be used in each lesson.

ELL

ELL indicates supports to help English language learners understand both the math vocabulary and context of the lesson.

Student Workbook

Student workbooks contain daily mathematical practice opportunities at both basic and higher-order thinking levels.

Warm-up Activity Cards

Warm-Up and Activity Cards set the stage for learning by offering explicit instruction on how to introduce, demonstrate, practice, and assess activities.

eTools

eTools are developmentally appropriate digital manipulatives used to demonstrate, explore, and build specific skills and concepts.

Weekly Planner

The weekly planner lists objectives that explain how the key concepts are developed lesson by lesson and which resources can be used in each lesson.

ELL

ELL

ELL indicates supports to help English language learners understand both the math vocabulary and context of the lesson.

Student Workbook

Student workbooks contain daily mathematical practice opportunities at both basic and higher-order thinking levels.

Warm-up Activity Cards

Warm-Up and Activity Cards set the stage for learning by offering explicit instruction on how to introduce, demonstrate, practice, and assess activities.

eTools

eTools are developmentally appropriate digital manipulatives used to demonstrate, explore, and build specific skills and concepts.

Make Your Schedule Your Own

How many minutes is your intervention math block? Number Worlds empowers teachers to provide high-quality Tier 2 or 3 instruction complementary to any core math program and within a variety of time frames. All three lesson tracks include opportunities for students to engage in multimodal learning activities, review through practice and formal assessments, and demonstrate content mastery through project-based learning.

Streamlined for Success

Organized into four key sections—Warm Up, Engage, Reflect, and Assess—Number Worlds streamlines instruction for busy teachers and makes for a more structured, productive, and enjoyable classroom environment.

Four-Part Lesson Structure

Warm Up provides cumulative review and practice to set the stage for learning.

Example of warm up activity in Number Worlds, Preparing students for lessons

The core of the lesson instruction, Engage provides research-based instructional strategies to solidify students’ understanding of the math concepts. Learning tools include instructional models, hands-on activities, written exercises, discussion, and more.

Example of engage activity in Number Worlds lesson used to develop students' skills of math concepts

Reflect promotes critical thinking by encouraging students to summarize and apply lesson concepts in multiple ways, including discussion, drawing, writing, or modeling with manipulatives.

Example of reflect activity in Number Worlds lesson teaching students to think critically

Wrapping up each lesson, Assess allows teachers to informally evaluate student progress and determine the need for additional practice.

Example of assess activity in Number Worlds lesson, informal assessment with students

Building Blocks Adaptive

Building Blocks Adaptive is a collection of nearly 200 game-based activities designed to guide students along research-based learning trajectories. Armed with the power of adaptive technology, Building Blocks personalizes the learning experience to each student’s needs, reinforcing mathematical development and transforming students into active “doers” of math.

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