Strategies to Achieve Mathematics Success (STAMS)

Target Individualized Instruction on Essential Math Skills

Using results from the CAMS series, the STAMS series helps educators teach foundational math skills and concepts for each grade.

Overview

Scaffolded Lessons and Tools to Strengthen Math Foundations

STAMS is ideal for students who need extra support to meet grade-level mathematics requirements. Lesson topics have been carefully sequenced so students move from basic skills to more complex content.

  • Highly scaffolded lessons and a consistent instructional routine reteach concepts that students never mastered.
  • Student pages are highly visual to make the lesson more engaging and accessible for struggling learners.
  • Engaging Interactive Whiteboard Activities for every lesson.

Topics include: Place Value, Addition and Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, Fractions, Decimals, Ratios, Proportional Relationships, Expressions, Equations, Plane Geometry, Linear Measurement, Area, Surface Area, Volume, and Graphs.

  • Program Type:Instruction
  • Subject:Mathematics
  • Grade(s):K–8
  • Language:English
  • Format:Print

Program Features

Essential Math Skills Mastery

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Target foundational math skills from place value to geometry with carefully sequenced lessons that build from basic to complex concepts. Each grade level focuses on the most critical math skills students need to advance, ensuring comprehensive coverage of core mathematical concepts.

Progressive Learning Design

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Engage students through highly visual, scaffolded lessons that gradually build independence. The consistent five-part lesson structure includes targeted practice with multiple question types while systematically reducing support to develop confident, independent problem solvers.

Research-Based Teaching Support

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Implement proven instructional strategies with built-in best practices for wait time, collaborative learning, and progress monitoring. Access detailed math background information, step-by-step teaching guidance, and specialized English Learner support to deliver effective instruction for all learners.
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What's Included

Student Book

  • Scaffolded, visual lessons for striving mathematics students
  • Five-part progressive lessons with gradually reduced support
  • Multiple-choice, extended-response, and short-response practice
  • Increasingly challenging problems throughout lessons
  • Covers essential grade-level mathematics skills from STAMS program

Teacher Guide

  • Math background explanations for content importance
  • Step-by-step lesson instruction and dialogue guidance
  • Answer analysis with correct/incorrect reasoning
  • Common error alerts and prevention strategies
  • Additional concept reinforcement activities
  • English Learner vocabulary support and language considerations