1. MathAmigo  Your Helping Hand

2. Why Use a Plan You can organize activities in two ways –Activity by Activity –By a Teaching Plan The advantage of the teaching Plan is that it saves you a lot of work The activity method allows you to create very specific tasks for students

3. Planning What you want to teach and when formulates a plan Some school districts give schools a model plan Some countries have a model plan Some schools teach using a textbook –This has a scope and sequence that it uses as a plan

4. Teaching Using a Plan A plan is a set of objectives To achieve the objectives students engage in the activities These are linked to the objectives

5. Standard Plans System Plans are already assigned to each standard class –These vary form country to country These already have all the activities linked to them You can edit the plans You can edit the activity links However, starting with the system plans saves you a lot of work

6. Changing Plans You can change a plan For example you can select a publisher plan to be your plan You can create your own plan from the beginning If your school district has a standard plan we can add it to the system

7. Set Ups The activities are organized in set ups –Easy –Standard –Standard (Timed) –Hard –Hard (Timed) You can edit set ups or create your own There is also a Review set up which you can use to try the activity

8. Personalized Learning The plan is the same for each group in a class –Change the objective in one group it changes in another However, activity set up assigned to a group will vary –One group might do the Hard set up –Another the easy

9. Very Different Kids If you have a groups who need to work to a different set of objectives you can –Create a separate class –Assign a different plan –Create a separate plan

10. Planning Planning is a powerful tool that allows you to organize activities for students with the minimum of effort You have complete control over plans and you can edit them or create your own