Hung-Hsi Wu explained at one of his Math Professional Development Institutes that remediation must take kids along faster rather than slower or they’ll be doomed by the time they get to high school. When I un-retired for a year to work as a math intervention specialist I took that advice to heart and came up with what I call “accelerated remediation”. My students on average progressed 19 percentile points from Fall to Spring, as measured by the nationally normed easyCBM™ CCSS math benchmark tests. This section explains what I think I did that helped my students make such gains.
Teaching math to kids who have fallen behind means you—and they—have to somehow go faster, not slower, in order to catch up to their classmates and be able to relate to and benefit from their grade-level teacher’s instruction.
This section is my attempt to explain the somehow of accelerated remediation: what I think we did to help our students make such extraordinary gains (nearly 1 nationally normed quartile on average).