Implementing a 90-Minute Mathematics Block
When Rutherford County School District’s middle school math scores dipped, school leaders restructured its schedule to include a 90-minute mathematics block. Ready Tennessee Mathematics and i-Ready Assessment and Personalized Instruction provided a foundation for teachers to help students with standards mastery and gave them a consistent tool to indicate where their kids were at. After the first year, Grades 6–8 students who had participated in the mathematics block saw median percent of Typical Growth increase to 127 percent.
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