2009 Conference April 15 - 17, 2009: 

New:Professional ProfileS

Math Recovery: Every Child's Pathway to Numeracy

Math Recovery professional development follows these pathways: Math Recovery Specialist Training Course, Add+VantageMR, and SNAP. For more information, see What is Math Recovery?

Math Recovery is a distinctive approach to the assessment and teaching of mathematics. The program combines intensive professional development based on constructivist theory, with one-on-one assessment and intervention with low-attaining children. The Math Recovery professional development prepares teachers to approach math instruction in a new way. It emphasizes ongoing assessment, careful observation, hypothesizing about the student's current knowledge and strategies, and building on them to increase the student's knowledge, ability and self-confidence in math.

Add+VantageMR is a unique approach to professional development, assessment and teaching in mathematics. The Add+VantageMR Program is designed to provide teachers with efficient and effective assessment tools to recognize their students current understandings of number concepts, and to support data-driven instruction. The focus of the program is informed assessment. Instead of providing teachers with a large bank of activities, teachers utilize the resources they currently have. Add+VantageMR is not a curriculum; Add+VantageMR supports K-5 mathematics assessment and teaching through professional development and innovative approaches to understanding children's mathematical thinking.

SNAP (Student Numeracy Assessment Progressions) is a research-based professional development program that provides classroom teachers with an individual assessment tool. SNAP is a scripted assessment that charts a range of tasks on a patented folder, which documents student and class progress. This tool allows teachers to develop Classroom Profiles that provide a visual summary of the range of development in the classroom for any aspect covered in the assessment.

The US Math Recovery Council (USMRC) is a non-profit organization that provides oversight and management of the Math Recovery materials, methodology and related intellectual property in the United States. More information.