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The K-8 Summer Math Journey
Vmath Summer Adventures equip teachers with instructional tools to engage, motivate, and build the math skills of K-8 students.
Preventing Summer Learning Loss
Vmath Summer Adventure combats summer learning loss by teaching essential math content, focusing on only one major objective per lesson to ensure mastery.

Motivation
Each module begins with Adventures that engage and motivate students, encouraging students to think about math in real life.

Explicit, Systematic, Scaffolded Instruction
Detailed lesson support makes teaching easier and reduces teacher preparation time. Scaffolded support through sample dialogue enables teachers to help students gain independence. Careful questioning strategies ensure mastery of concepts and skills.

Focus on Vocabulary Development
Emphasis on learning the language of math enables ELL and struggling students to become more successful.

Opportunities to Communicate Mathematically
Students are encouraged to communicate both verbally and in writing. Open-ended response questions require students to justify their thinking and analyze answers for reasonableness.
Features that Teach

Relevant Adventures Engage & Motivate

Each module opens with an Adventure featuring exciting photographs and real-life math situations that pose relevant questions. Students read and use data, answer open-ended questions, or write short paragraphs explaining the mathematics involved. Students think about math in different ways and make important connections to other disciplines, including science, geography, health, and the arts.

Four Lesson Steps Teach Systematically
Each lesson is organized logically into four parts.

The teacher reviews prerequisite skills and carefully models the new concept, skill, or strategy as students work in their workbooks.

The teacher uses effective prompts and questions to scaffold instruction and ensure proper student responses. The lesson guides teachers in the gradual and purposeful removal of the scaffolds.

Students independently practice lesson content and previously learned skills and keep a personal graph of progress in their workbooks.

Students answer questions in multiple choice and short answer formats, allowing the teacher to informally assess using daily progress checks.

Correction Procedures Guarantee Mastery

Correction Procedures, diagnostic and prescriptive tools customized for each lesson, help teachers identify and analyze student mistakes and intervene with immediate corrective feedback.

Reinforcement Activities
Reach All Types of Learners
Math games actively engage students while reinforcing important math skills. In Math and Literature sections (Levels A-C), the class reads a trade book and answers math-related questions to emphasize real-life connections in math. Math Activities (Levels A-C) use hands-on and physical ways to present math concepts.

Assessment that Informs

Pre-Tests and Post-Tests
Assess Mastery
All grade levels include Pre-Test and Post-Test Assessments. The Pre-Test is given before instruction begins to measure student understanding of math content and to establish a baseline score for each student. The Post-Test is given after the instruction to measures student mastery of concepts and skills.

In Levels D – I, Pre-Tests and Post-Tests are included for each module, and can be taken online for schools using VmathLive. In Levels A-C, an overall Pre-Test and Post-Test assesses mastery of the content of each level of instruction.

Test Prep Questions with
Error Analysis Assess Informally
The Test Prep questions presented in multiple choice and short answer formats allow teachers to easily assess students informally after each lesson. The question distracters are based on common student errors, so the teacher can be informed as to the exact cause of the student's misconception. This type of error analysis is commonly identified as positively affecting student learning.

By providing our teachers with easy-to-use materials and focused professional development, we were able to use our limited time with our students to its full advantage. Teachers were universally thrilled with the ease of use and the strides their students made.
Michael O'Laughlin,
Director of Curriculum
Campbell Union School District
Campbell, CA