EXTENSIONS
Moving with Math® EXTENSIONS is a focused, evidence-based math intervention program strategically condensed to address the most important grade-level standards and skills students need to progress. This makes it perfect for closing specific gaps quickly while building the conceptual understanding students need to succeed at grade level. Spanning Pre-K through Grade 8, EXTENSIONS is the ideal solution for RTI/MTSS Tier 2 intervention, extended day, summer school, and any setting where time is limited but results are critical.
Extensions is strategically condensed to address the most important prerequisite skills and concepts. This makes it perfect for closing specific gaps quickly while building the conceptual understanding students need to succeed at grade level.
Pre-Kindergarten – Grade 8
Aligned with NCTM, CCSS and State Standards.
EXTENSIONS Program Features
Organized Learning System Empowers Teachers
EXTENSIONS uses the Moving with Math® Learning System to provide teachers with an organized and systematic process to raise achievement for all students. It is easy to use and streamlines classroom management, integrating standards-aligned assessments to direct data-driven, differentiated instruction, giving teachers more time to focus on the engaging Concrete-Representational-Abstract (CRA) lessons proven to improve student understanding and academic performance.
Universal Screening
The program uses Pre and Post-Test assessments taken online or paper/pencil that quickly identify students’ needs and direct objective-based instruction for individual students and the class.
Summative progress monitoring is integrated into the Learning System to support continuous data-driven instruction and ensure student understanding including Benchmark Tests online.
Research-Based CRA Instruction
Explicit CRA instruction begins every lesson with hands-on manipulatives to help children understand and make sense of math concepts. Research shows CRA instruction is effective and enables students to physically explore, discover, and communicate essential math concepts while developing problem-solving skills every day.
Lesson Plans Provide Daily Professional Development and Promote Teaching Excellence
Comprehensive, lightly scripted lesson plans integrate proven instructional strategies based on educational research to guide hands-on manipulative activities for every concept, ensuring access for all learners. Lesson plans save prep time, help teachers lead engaging hands-on activities, differentiate instruction, monitor progress and set students up for success.
“The mathematical background of the teacher is the number one in classroom predictor of student success.”
Effects of Teachers’ Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching on Student Achievement - 2005
Integrates Literacy and Language Acquisition
Read to Me activities in many of the lesson plans creatively weave children’s stories into the curriculum to build vocabulary, connect math to the real world and make it fun.
Oral language skills are strengthened through small-group activities that enhance comprehension and apply math in real-world contexts, fostering curiosity and reducing anxiety for students.
Games
Nothing lights up a child’s face like telling them it’s time to play a game. Games utilizing a variety of manipulatives give students a fun way to reinforce understanding, establish fluency, build vocabulary and language skills, and foster community with peers.
Continuous Progress Monitoring
Daily Reviews and Check Points assess progress and identify reteaching needs. They also support long-term retention by continuously spiraling and reviewing previously learned objectives. In addition to integrated summative assessments, lesson plans include a variety of formative assessment options to monitor fluency and gather evidence of mastery of objectives.
Family Engagement
Family Math Connections booklets, available in English and Spanish, provide an important link between school and home, sharing students’ academic progress with parents and guardians. Booklets include activities that encourage family members to participate in their child’s math development and support them as they discover a road to success.
What our customers are saying
“The primary reasons we chose Extensions were that it is specifically intended for short term use such as our 18-day summer session, the content is focused, and the curriculum includes the use of manipulatives. The mean score of our K–4 students increased by nearly 20%; and of the 58% who failed the pre-test, 42% went on to pass the post-test at the end of summer session. Teachers loved the easy to-follow format and how engaged students were while using the manipulatives.”
Elizabeth Putnam - Assistant Director Department of Alternative Education, St. Paul Public Schools
Build Conceptual Understanding and Confidence For Your Students.
Request our EXTENSIONS sampler to view the scope and sequence and see CRA lessons for each grade level.
EXTENSIONS Program Resources
Everything teachers need to implement EXTENSIONS.
Ask your Educational Consultant to find the right combination for your classrooms.
Empowering Teachers with the Resources They Need to Succeed
Convenient
Teacher eGuides
All resources in the printed Teacher Manuals are also available in online e-Guides for clear instructional guidance and easy lesson planning from anywhere. eGuides streamline and simplify implementation with access for printing and emailing resources.
Time Saving Online Assessment Suite
Assessments aligned to standards generate instant reports to help teachers create IEPs and easily differentiate instruction. Teachers and administrators have immediate access to individual student and classroom achievement results. Reports identify knowledge gaps and assist teachers in planning one-on-one, small groups and whole class instruction.
Professional Development Promotes Excellence
The most powerful factor in student math success is the teacher in the room. Our professional development training and workshops equip educators with the research-based strategies, hands-on tools, and deep CRA instructional knowledge they need to confidently help every student succeed.