How Kickstart: Number Sense Builds Math Confidence and Skills
Partner talk and hands-on activities are critical elements of the Kickstart program. Students need to talk and hear others talk about numbers as much as possible to gain confidence, recognize relationships between numbers, and develop flexibility in using them.
Placement for Number Sense Intervention
Kickstart: Number Sense addresses intervention for whole number skills in four stages. Stages A–D provide the number sense skills needed to access core math curricula in grades K–3 respectively.
There are two ways to place students in Kickstart: Number Sense. Teachers can refer to a chart and place students based on demonstrated knowledge and struggles or administer a brief placement test.
Learn more about placement, view lessons from each stage, and see how program components support instruction by downloading a program sampler.
View Program SamplerAdditional Support for PreK Skills
Kickstart: Early Number and Counting © 2022 is available as an optional add-on to support students struggling to access kindergarten skills intervention. These 30 lessons focused on PreK number skills are available as a printed Teacher Guide or digitally as an additional MyZBPortal.com license.
Small-Group Intervention Lessons
Each 20-minute lesson consists of three or more activities to provide variety and increase engagement. Lessons engage students physically as well as mentally, using original songs, games, and hands-on manipulatives such as counting cubes, rekenreks, DecaDeck cards, and a giant number line.
The materials needed for each lesson, how to use them, what to talk about, and how to move from one activity to the next are all spelled out in the Teacher Guides.
Watch a classroom demonstration video in or to see how Kickstart: Number Sense works.
Classroom Demonstration in English
Number Sense Assessment and Progress Monitoring
Each Kickstart: Number Sense stage covers specific whole number skills, and progress monitoring forms help teachers track students’ progress through the stage. Samples are provided to help teachers envision how they might use progress monitoring templates.
Progress monitoring forms and an assessment test help teachers measure understanding of key skills and identify students who are ready for the grade-level math curriculum.
MyZBPortal.com Convenience
Kickstart: Number Sense Full Intervention Kit includes two renewable one-year licenses for MyZBPortal.com, a convenient way to access program materials. You can view daily lessons, project materials such as activity cards and song videos to share with students, view professional development videos, and watch lesson demonstration videos.
Give Their Number Sense Journey a Kickstart!
Help struggling students develop confidence in math and understanding of whole numbers to access their grade-level core curriculum now and in the future.