Early Finishers
An early finisher is a student who completes the ST Math Journey before the end of the school year.
Rather than moving an early finisher to the next grade level, teachers have several options in ST Math to help students go deeper with their understanding of the current grade level content.
What is an early finisher?
These options include:
Engage Students in Deeper Grade Level Learning
Click on each option to learn more about it!
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Early Finishers automatically move on to the Bonus Journey.
Learn more by clicking on the stages below.
Students will automatically begin the Bonus Journey once they complete the grade-level journey. This provides even more great ST Math games which are added to the student’s puzzle count.
Bonus Journey games can be assigned to individual students or to the entire class at anytime during the school year.
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The Bonus Journey includes the following objectives:
- Math Challenge Objectives
- Challenge Objectives
- Cognitive Training (grades 3+)
- Summer Bridge Objectives (grades 6-8)
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These challenging puzzles extend grade-level topics across a variety of content domains.
These games provide opportunities for problem solving, cumulative review and deepening grade-level concepts.
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The Bonus Journey automatically begins when a student finishes the grade-level Journey.
Click to try a demo of this Math Challenge Objective!
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The Bonus Journey automatically begins when a student finishes the grade-level Journey.
Click to try a demo of this Challenge Objective!
These multi-step puzzles require the use of spatial reasoning to explore symmetry, reflections, rotations, and analytical thinking.
grade-level journey while increasing their problem-solving and perseverance. It may take many sessions, but they can succeed!
Challenge Objectives can also be assigned to students anytime during the school year, allowing them to continue working on their
Experimental, research-based tasks designed to strengthen working memory throughout the school year.
Students can replay levels to try to beat their high scores.
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Consider assigning this objective to your students early in the year; strengthening working memory takes time and effort, but it is a valuable skill!
(grades 3+)
The Bonus Journey automatically begins when a student finishes the grade-level Journey.
Click to try a demo of these Cognitive Training games!
These objectives provide review and preview activities for summer learning. We recommend that this objective is assigned to students in grades 6-8 in the summer rather than during the school year.
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(grades 6-8)
Click to try a demo of these Summer Bridge Objectives!
Optional objectives provide fluency practice for students and can be assigned at any point in the school year to the class or to individual students. There are two fluency objectives:
- Addition and Subtraction Facts (first grade and above)
- Multiplication and Division Facts (second grade and above)
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Click to try a demo of this Optional Objective!
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Optional objectives can be assigned to the entire class or to individual students from the Curriculum dropdown menu of the ST Math website.
Step 1:
Click on "All Learning Objectives."
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Optional objectives can be assigned to the entire class or to individual students from the Curriculum dropdown menu of the ST Math website.
Step 2:
Find and click on your grade level.
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Optional objectives can be assigned to the entire class or to individual students from the Curriculum dropdown menu of the ST Math website.
Step 3:
Scroll to the Optional section and click on a set of facts (twice).
[Multiplication and Division or Addition and Subtraction]
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Optional objectives can be assigned to the entire class or to individual students from the Curriculum dropdown menu of the ST Math website.
Step 4:
Click on "Assign This Objective" to assign it to the class or student.
The Jiji Choice Board gives students a way to highlight and share their understanding of the concepts learned in ST Math.
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The accompanying Project Checklist includes directions, a rubric, and the necessary recording tools for each of the projects listed on the Jiji Choice Board.
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Step 1:
Students read through the options on the Jiji Choice Board and choose an ST Math Special Project to highlight their understanding of the concepts learned in ST Math.
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Teacher Tip - Have copies of recording tools ready for students.
Step 2:
Once students have chosen a project from the Jiji Choice Board, they will review the list of criteria on the first page of the Project Checklist.
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Teacher Tip - Check for understanding before letting them work solo.
Step 3:
Allow time for students to work on their projects using the provided recording tools.
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Teacher Tip - While students work, check in regularly to avoid confusion.
Step 4:
Celebrate the work students have done by giving them an opportunity to share their ST Math Projects.
Click for a PDF copy
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Teacher Tip - Allow for multiple forms of sharing (individual, group, etc.)
ST Math Activity Pages are a companion to ST Math that provides students with the opportunity to build on the concepts and puzzles they experience in their grade-level journey.
ST Math Activity Pages are not your traditional worksheets!
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ST Math Activity Pages include:
Room to make personal connections to math!
Space to elicit student thinking and strategies!
More than one way to find the solution!
Freedom to take risks and try new problem-solving ideas!
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Fewer directions!
A QR code to access the page's ST Math game
A teacher guide and answer keys are provided with the ST Math Activity Pages.
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ST Math Activity Page
Teacher Guide
Answer Key
The Teacher Guide includes several helpful resources to use with individual students, in small groups, or with the whole class.
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Schema Development
An overview of the concept and approach of the page.
Support
Ideas on how to provide support to a "stuck" student.
Discussion Questions
A way to facilitate academic discourse and a deeper learning of math.
Extensions
Prompts to extend and deepen student curiousity and learning.
Answer Keys
Suggestions and possibilities - students might come up with some surprising ideas!
LOOK FOR
Strategies, misconceptions, and other tangibles to LOOK FOR when monitoring student work.
ST Math Activity Pages provide many opportunities to engage students in the Problem Solving Process. The Problem Solving Process is essential to the facilitation of student thinking.
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and PREDICT & JUSTIFY their strategies of how they'll approach the page.
The non-routine problems provide opportunities to TEST, OBSERVE, & ANALYZE a variety of strategies.
Students build CONNECTions between the pages and games, across math concepts, and EXTEND to the world around them.
A natural academic discourse is created as students share and exchange ideas, and LEARN from one another.
Students NOTICE & WONDER about what they see on the page, develop language, and build intuition...
ST Math Activity Pages include a one-page student introduction to the features, style, and benefits of the pages. There are separate introductions for K-2nd grade and 3rd-5th grade.
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K - 2nd grade
3rd - 5th grade
Click here for grade-level specific ST Math Activity Pages and Teacher Guides.
Then continue on to learn more about using them!
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Bouncing Shoes
Push Box
How Many Legs
Activity Page bundle
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Ten Frame Addition
Bouncing Shoes
Push Box
Activity Page bundle
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Push Box Missing Quantity
Least Most
Number Line to 100
Activity Page bundle
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Scale Fraction
Fruit Monster
Fair Sharing
Activity Page bundle
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Jiji Cycle Symbolic
Jiji Cycle
Linear Transform
Activity Page bundle
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Area, Perimeter, and Volume
Linear Transform
Alien Bridge
Activity Page bundle
Step 1:
Create space for students to work on the ST Math Activity Pages at a station, a center, or in a small group.
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Step 2:
Scan the QR code included on each ST Math Activity Page to access level 1 of that specific game.
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Step 3:
Then students can work individually or in small groups to finish the activity pages.
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Step 4:
Finally, take time to review the page with the student. Discuss student work, strategies, and challenges. Celebrate successes and creative thinking.
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ST Math Activity Pages were created to build learning, not to transfer learning.
ST Math Activity Pages:
- Facilitate student learning
- Put students in the driver's seat of their own learning
- Develop essential skills of creative problem solvers
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