Welcome to the enVisionmath2.0 Parent Presentation.

Workshop Focus
Program goal and organization
Common Core State Standards for Mathematics support
Proven instructional model
Student experience

Today we would like to provide parents with an overview of how enVisionmath2.0

promotes success and higher achievement in mathematics for your children. We will
investigate the program goal, organization, and how it supports the Common Core
State Standards for Mathematics. In addition, we will take a look at its proven
instructional model and what it looks like from your childs perspective.

Program Goal

Teaching Mathematics with

Understanding

According to James Hiebert, One understands an idea in mathematics when one can
connect that idea to previously learned ideas (1997). enVisionmath2.0 fully
embraces this sentiment with time-proven research principles for teaching
mathematics with understanding.

Proven Efficacy

enVisionmath2.0

The enVisionmath2.0 program offers an instructional model that is based on a

research and has proven efficacy shown by statistically significant advantages in
independent, scientific research done with randomized controlled trials. How did
enVisionmath2.0 students perform? They outperformed everybody, despite starting
at a lower levels.
Student gains in the second year were even larger than those seen in the first year.
The research results indicate that the longer students learned with enVisionMATH, the
greater their gains in math concepts and problem solving Dr. Mariam Azin,
Planning, Research, & Evaluation Services (PRES) Associates

Program Organization

Focus
Coherence
Rigor

enVisionmath2.0 is a comprehensive K6 mathematics program that is organized to

promote focus for deeper understanding, develop coherence within and across grade
levels, and lay the foundation for rigor.

Focus on Clusters

MAJOR CLUSTERS
Most important and
greater emphasis

SUPPORTING
CLUSTERS
Strongly connect to
major work
ADDITIONAL
CLUSTERS
Complete grade-level
content

The Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSSM) call for greater focus in
mathematics. Rather than touching on many pieces of content in a mile-wide,
inch-deep curriculum, the CCSSM narrow the amount of content at a grade. This
increases the time for a deeper dive and genuine emphasis, or focus, on the
content. In the CCSSM, standards with a common focus are grouped into clusters.
enVisionmath2.0 is organized to help students focus on clusters of the CCSSM within
a grade. Each CCSSM cluster is the focus of one or more topics to promote in-depth
development. The enVisionmath2.0 Cluster Wheel provides a visual representation
of how clusters, topics, and lessons are organized at each grade. Major clusters get
the most emphasis (color coded in green). Supporting clusters support the major
work (color coded in blue). Additional clusters (color coded in yellow) complete the
grade-level content.

Focus on Clusters

We do not want students to view mathematics as small, disconnected pieces of

content. To that end, enVisionmath2.0 offers a unique organization to focus on the
CCSSM clusters, topics, and subsequent lessons in a way that helps students focus on
key ideas to develop a deeper understanding.

Program Organization: Coherence

Grade 3 Use models to represent

fractions

Grade 4 Addition builds

foundation for multiplication

Grade 5 Multiply fractions

You have already seen how enVisionmath2.0 provides the links between related
mathematics within a grade through clusters, topics, and lessons. Now lets look at
how enVisionmath2.0 links related mathematics across grade levels. The standards
identify coherence as the developmental progression of mathematics across grades
and the links between related mathematics within a grade.
enVisionmath2.0 lessons relate on-grade-level concepts explicitly to prior knowledge
from earlier grades. For example, in Grade 3, students use models to represent
fractions. In Grade 4, these models help students add fractions and build the
foundation for multiplication of fractions in Grade 5.

Mathematical Practices K12

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Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.

Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
Model with mathematics.
Use appropriate tools strategically.
Attend to precision.
Look for and make use of structure.
Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

(NGA Center and CCSSO 2010, 68)

Another layer in organizing enVisionmath2.0 relates to the eight Standards for

Mathematical Practice as described in the Common Core Standards for Mathematics.
Mathematical practices are the habits of mind, processes and dispositions that
enable your child to understand mathematics and to use or do mathematics with
understanding. Mathematical practices translate to observable verbal and written
behaviors by your children as they do mathematics.

Math Practices Handbook

In addition, the Math Practices and Problem Solving Handbook, located at the front
of the Student Edition has a Math Practices section and a Problem Solving Guide.
The Math Practices section provides a page for each math practice as a resource for
students and teachers to use throughout the year when discussing math practices. It
includes the following:
A clarifying statement about what good math thinkers do when they engage the
math practice
A sample problem that lends itself to engaging the math practice
Thinking Habits questions that help students engage the math practice when
solving problems
The Problem Solving Guide is a resource that you can use to facilitate your childs
work in solving problems. The guide incorporates math practices and includes
questions to guide students thinking. In addition, the Problem Solving Recording
Sheet provides a structure for recording childrens work as they solve problems.

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Three Aspects of Rigor

Conceptual understanding
Procedural skill and fluency
Application

The CCSSM also set expectations for attention to three aspects of rigor: conceptual
understanding, procedural skill and fluency, and application. enVisionmath2.0
reflects these aspects and helps your children meet the CCSSMs rigorous
expectations. Now lets take a look at how these rigorous expectations are reflected
in the program.

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Topic Introduction

Essential Questions for deeper conceptual understanding

An Essential Question at the beginning of each topic supports rigor by helping your
children focus on key ideas. These ideas apply to a group of consecutive lessons. As
students focus on a topic over multiple days, they develop a deeper conceptual
understanding. The Essential Questions are revisited at the end of the topic in the
Topic Assessment.

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Vocabulary Cards and Activities

At the start of each topic, your children are provided with vocabulary cards and
activities in the Student Edition, called My Word Cards, that preview the vocabulary
found in the topic and lessons. These write-on cards provide information on the front
of the card to help students complete the back-of-the-card activities. In addition, the
Review What We Know feature provides the teacher with a better understanding of
your childs prior knowledge. These activities help activate prior knowledge related to
the new content they are about to explore, which also supports conceptual
understanding.

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Step 1: Problem-Based Learning

Research shows that conceptual understanding is developed when new mathematics

are introduced in the context of solving a real problem, in which ideas related to the
new content are embedded (Kapur 2010; Lester and Charles 2003; Scott 2014).
Each lesson in enVisionmath2.0 begins with Problem-Based Learning to engage your
children in authentic, real-world tasks that develop mathematical understanding.
To begin, concepts emerge as your children solve a problem in which new concepts
are embeddedthis is Problem-Based Learning. So in Step 1 of the lesson, the Solve
& Share problem helps your children connect what they know to new ideas
embedded in the problem. When your child makes these connections, conceptual
understanding emerges. Also, during the Solve & Share, your child can write directly
in the text to explain his or her reasoning and communicate his or her understanding.

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Solve & Share Online

To further support these connections, the teacher might assign your children the
Solve & Share problem as homework to complete online through Pearson Realize .
We will take a look at this online experience a little later in this presentation.

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Step 2: Develop Visual Learning

Students understanding is extended during Step 2 of the lessonVisual Learning.

The Visual Learning Bridge is used to connect your childs thinking and solutions from
the Solve & Share problem to the new mathematical ideas of the lesson. This
step-by-step visual representation of the concept is accompanied by the Visual
Learning Animation Plus.

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-Stuart Murphy (enVisionmath2.0@ 2016)

Lets take a moment to listen to one of enVisionmath2.0s professional development

videos on Visual Learning.

Visual Learning: Stuart Murphy

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Visual Learning Animation Plus

The animation and accompanying interactivity in enVisionmath2.0 are used to

engage your children in a rich classroom conversation that deepens their
understanding. During the Visual Learning Animation Plus online, the direct
instruction from the Visual Learning Bridge is demonstrated step by step. There are
also guiding questions hosted by the same avatar shown in the Visual Learning
Bridge. An animated Glossary and Math Tools link are always available. Now, lets
take a peek at what your child experiences with an example of a Visual Learning
Animation Plus video! (Presenter note: Start the video by clicking the Visual
Learning Animation Plus picture.)

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Show Me! Convince Me!

Explain, justify, use reasoning.

The Visual Learning then connects to the Show Me! (for Grades K2) or Convince Me!
(Grades 36) questions. Again, your children use the Standards for Mathematical
Practice to explain their thinking and justify their reasoning. In this way, your
childrens teacher can check understanding immediately after instruction. Convince
Me! questions are also available online.

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Step 2 continues with the following:

Rigor: Procedural skills and fluency and application

Step 2 of the lesson continues with daily support for procedural skills and fluency,
and application, one of the aspects of rigor.
Remember that this part of the lesson follows the Solve & Share and Visual Learning.
As a result, your children can perform better on procedural skills because the
procedures now make more sense to them. Your children are provided with
opportunities for fluency though Guided and Independent Practice. Math Practices
and Problem Solving provide additional ways for your children to apply their
understanding. Notice how the problems connect to Standards Practice and
Higher-Order Thinking.
Selected items are identified in the Teachers Edition to serve as a short, built-in quiz
for each lesson. A parallel quiz is also provided online that is auto-scored. How
students perform on this lesson quiz then indicates the type of differentiation activity
that might be useful for Intervention, on-level, and advanced learners.

English Language Learners

Three levels of English language proficiency

Instructional support for English language learners is provided for each lesson as well.
Each lesson teaches one or more strategies. Leveled instruction includes suggestions
for students at beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels of English language
proficiency.

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Step 3: Assess & Differentiate

Grade K sample

Grade 3 sample

The last step of the lessonAssess & Differentiateprescribes differentiated

instruction of key concepts and skills. Your childs teacher extends on-level and
advanced students thinking during this portion of the lesson, while also providing
support for students who are struggling with the content. Lets take a closer look.

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Intervention Activity

Every lesson offers a detailed Intervention Activity for students who need it with full
teacher support with examples of student work shown.
As a follow-up, your children have an opportunity to work through the math
concept with scaffolded support built right into the Reteach to Build Understanding
worksheets. This is not your normal Reteaching Worksheet, but one that ensures
that all students have an opportunity to build an understanding of the concepts.

enVisionCENTERS

On-Level
Advanced

While the teacher is working directly with the intervention students, you might ask,
What are the other students doing? They are launching their enVisionCENTERS.
The Quick and Easy Centers Kit for Differentiated Instruction holds all of the
resources for the differentiation centers. These centers include activities for Problem
Solving, Center Games, math and science activities, and digital Math Tools activities.
Lets take a look at some of these activities.

Technology Tools

Intervention
On-Level
Advanced

Math Tools Activity or Math Game for each lesson

The Technology Center includes both Math Tools Activities and Math Games that
reinforce math content. The Math Tools include directions so that your children can
work independently. In addition, gaming options provide critical-thinking
opportunities rather than just drill games. Your children actually learn concepts
during the game. Later we will show you how to access these tools.

Problem-Solving Reading Mats

On-Level
Advanced

The Problem-Solving Reading Mats for each topic provide a real-world context where
your children can apply their understanding of the math in the topic in real-world
situations. Two lessons in a topic use a Problem-Solving Reading Mat. A big, beautiful,
data-filled mat is provided for each topic. A lesson-specific page with problems to
solve using the data on the mat is supported by an Activity Guide that includes other
suggestions for using the mat.

Center Games
On-Level
Advanced

Center Games are provided for additional on-level and advanced practice of the
lesson concepts and skills. They contain seven different types of games and include
Partner Talk so that your children can share their thinking.

Math and Science Activities

On-Level
Advanced

The Math and Science Activity relates to the topics science theme and connects to a
science standard as a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
(STEM)-related activity. Extensions for advanced learners are also included.

Homework & Practice

Additional Homework & Practice items focus on skills and on problem solving that
includes reinforcement of math practices, vocabulary, Higher-Order Thinking, and
Common Core assessment skills.

Fluency Practice Activity

End of every topic

(Grade Kstarts at Topic 8)

Additional resources are provided at the end of every topic to ensure that your
children achieve fluency on the CCSSM fluency standards.

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Vocabulary Review

End of every topic

At the end of each topic in the Student Edition is a page of Vocabulary Review. It
includes questions to reinforce understanding of the vocabulary used in the topic and
asks your children to use vocabulary in writing. Additional activities in the Teachers
Edition reinforce their oral language and writing in math.

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Assessment
In the format of next-generation assessments

enVisionmath2.0 provides assessment resources to help your childs teacher discover

what they know.
Formative assessments are built into lessons to help inform instruction. Various
summative assessments include performance-based topic assessments. Assessments
include multistep and multipart items involving selected response and constructed
response.
Teachers can view online assessment data in different ways to facilitate data-driven
decision making.

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How Can I Help My

Child at Home?

Lets look at a few of the things you can do at home to help your child be successful.

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Home-School Connection Parent Letter

Be on the lookout for the Home-School Connection Parent Letter available at the
start of each new topic. The letter provides valuable information about the specific
focus for the topic, along with activities you can do with your child to enhance his or
her learning, including specific math practices.

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Homework

Grade K sample

Grade 3 sample

Your childs teacher uses leveled homework guidance to assign Intervention,

On-Level, or Advanced homework based on your childs needs and understanding.
This should hopefully prevent the scenario in which your child complains that he or
she does not understand the homework.

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Online: Another Look Video Series

In addition, the Another Look Homework Video series provides daily online help from
an engaging video that provides direction instruction in a variety of styles to ensure
success on homework. Lets take a look at one of these videos. (Click the image to
start the video.)

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Personalized Practice
Responsive with immediate feedback

Practice Buddy online for Grades 36 is personalized practice that provides

Independent Practice, Math Practices, and Problem Solving, as well as Homework and
Practice for every lesson. Onscreen help provides immediate feedback and also
includes the following:
Help Me Solve This
View an Example
Visual Learning Animation

A Students Site

PearsonRealize.com: What does your child see?

(Presenter Note: If you are able to go live and demo the student site on
PearsonRealize.com, be sure to set up a student user with assignments. Be sure to
cover all elements from the following slides. If not, use the presentation slides.)

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Student View: Sign In

In order to access the online components to this course, your child will log on to
PearsonRealize.com, click Sign in, and type the username and password provided by
the teacher.

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Main Screen

Once your child has logged on, he or she will see the main screen. There are a variety
of pictures that the child can choose to personalize the home page, so the
background image might look different than this one. However, what will remain the
same are the options to go to Programs, Classes, and Grades.

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Programs

Under Programs, your child will see the Table of Contents. This may include Math
Practices Animations and all of the topics.

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View Lessons

When your child clicks a particular topic, he or she will find the individual lessons.
Here we see Topic 9 with the lessons for that topic.

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Lesson Support

Under each lesson, your child will see the necessary lesson resources to help support
learning, including the following:
Online Student Edition
The Problem-Based Learning Solve & Share that we looked at earlier
Visual Learning resources
Assess & Differentiate resources (these may include a game and Another Look
videos)

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Classes

Under Classes, your child will find the Assignments, categorized into the following:
Not started
In progress
Completed
The child will also find eText and Tools, including the following:
Game Center
Glossary
Math Tools
Lets take a closer look at some of the tools available to your child.

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Technology Center Tools

Game Center
Math
Tools

Glossary

The Game Center includes a variety of games that students can access anytime. Math
Tools reinforces lesson content or previously taught content. The animated Glossary
helps build understanding and supports oral language development. English and
Spanish are included to support dual-language instruction and English language
learners.

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Grades

Under the Grades tab, children will find grades from tests and assignments, along
with progress on their assignments. By clicking the graphs, they can find additional
information and the status of assignments. In addition, item analysis from online
topic assessments provide percentage performance scores along with areas in need
of additional practice. As a parent, you can see exactly what skill areas your child is
struggling with in order to provide extra support.

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BouncePages
Pages come to life!
Aim, tap, bounce!

Finally, you and your child can access the Visual Learning Animations and the Another
Look Homework Videos from the Student Edition on any mobile device with the
Pearson BouncePages app. Download Pearson BouncePages to your tablet or
smartphone via your mobile app store. This allows your child access to support
anytime or place.

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Thank
you!

Thank you for exploring how enVisionmath2.0 promotes success and higher
achievement in mathematics for your children.

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Kapur, Manu. Productive failure in mathematical problem solving. Instructional Science, vol. 38, No. 6, pp.
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Lester, F., and R. Charles, eds. Teaching mathematics through problem solving: Grades Pre-K-6. Reston,
VA: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 2003.
Murphy, Stuart J. enVisionmath2.0@2016
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Officers (CCSSO). 2010. Common Core State Standards for Mathematics. Washington, DC: National
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