Recognized as one of the nation’s leading elementary mathematics educators, Kathy Richardson has earned a remarkable reputation for her professional books, programs, as well as her curriculum resource materials. Thousands of teachers and millions of students benefit from her practical, proven methods for providing students with the meaningful practice needed to understand the underlying structure of numbers, number relationships, and operations. We’re honored to partner with this educator and innovator to bring these programs and products to teachers and students everywhere.
AMC is a continuum of K-2 assessments focused on core concepts essential for math success. The assessments are formative, diagnostic and designed to uncover students’ true understanding.
Using Kathy Richardson’s proven assessment methodology teachers can individualize and personalize instruction. This gives students better opportunities for mastery of the mathematical concepts needed for success in elementary and middle school and beyond.
• Assessment results group students and are aligned to Developing Number Concepts for specific instructional strategies and activities.
• Assessments are conducted in short one-on-one student/teacher interviews, with student responses captured and tracked using the Student Interview Forms, or by the web-based, online platform, AMC Anywhere.
With books, activity card kits, and manipulative kits, teachers have a complete number curriculum for their K-3 classrooms. Each book is research-based and written clearly to ensure teachers can deliver simple, but meaningful activities designed to give learners sequential, explicit, and repeated math experiences, using the curriculum’s recommended math stations strategies.
• Activity Card Kits feature the classroom-ready materials needed to implement the math stations featured in each Developing Number Concepts book.
• Manipulative Resource Kits for Developing Number Concepts are specifically aligned for each curriculum book and include manipulatives, laminated activity cards, and Developing Number Concepts dice.
The Small Group Intervention Tasks Kit is ready-to-teach resource designed to support K-5 students who need extra support mastering essential math concepts. Aligned to the Developing Number Concepts series, these hands-on lessons and tasks engage small groups of students in meaningful math learning. Designed to accelerate learning, they target 8 core concepts: Counting and Cardinality, Comparing, Addition and Subtraction to 10, Addition and Subtraction to 20, Place Value, 2-Digit Addition and Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division.
The 64 small group lessons with hands-on activities and concrete models provide students opportunities to make sense of number relationships and structures of numbers. Streamlined directions and content support is ideal for teachers, interventionists, and paraprofessionals working with small groups. The kit includes 8 sets of 8 task cards with directions and questions, game boards, dice, and spinners all in a compact, sturdy carrying case with 8 self-contained zippered bags, making it easy to organize and transport.
To help teachers, math coaches, and curriculum leaders support successful implementation of Assessing Math Concepts in the classroom, the Math Perspectives Teacher Development Center provides professional learning programs created to help teachers understand how children develop math concepts. The programs also focus on helping teachers interpret and apply the assessment data to inform instruction, along with creating learning environments that will address the range of students’ needs, identified in the assessments.
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