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By sue d.

My school uses Trailblazers. It sounds similar. The district has seen a marked improvement in problem solving test scores, but computation fell sharply! My team of third grade teachers and I all get Addison-Weslley(sp?)
or Silver-Burdette and Ginn texts off the internet, or old workbooks and make a unit for each type of math. For example, I would look at a Trailblazers unit and say, okay, what do these kids NOT know how to do in here? If it is subtraction, I make a packet of old subtraction worksheets, and stuff from my teacher's store books, bind it together and call them my "Subtraction Action" books.

Each kid gets a copy. We do a page or two every day. The parents love it and actually wrote kudos letters to the principal! It also helps to have a Math Pro Timed Drill every Friday. They sell books of these 100 problems in five minute drill papers. We started with addition, then sub., finally, we're doing multiplication, then division at the end of the year. I have a class of math wizards now and I am pleased beyond measure!