What a wonderful week at SMU with our LIME students. Here we are with our 6 LIME students who will graduate in 2026!

Project STAIR is our project focused on data-based decision making in math. Check out our YouTube channel for all kinds of math videos! www.youtube.com/channel/UCE2...

Today, I’m excited to be working with teachers in Round Rock ISD! This morning was all about word problems. This afternoon is all about math vocabulary and hands-on math tools!

Excited to be in Houston today at the conference for the Houston Branch of the International Dyslexia Association. And I get to share ideas on the support of word problems!

Wonderful to spend time at Academy District 20 focusing on math manipulatives and their connection to word problems. What a wonderful group of teachers here! Also, I got to explore the Garden of the Gods and see the first season’s snow on Pikes Peak!

I'll be in northern Ohio on November 14th to share ways to integrate literacy in math. Join me!

Today is the day we kick off our SPIRAL math project for this school year! Lots of conversations about math manipulatives today. Check out many free resources at www.mathspiral.com

With our SCALE project, we're working with teachers and interventionists as they use a fraction intervention called Fraction Face-Off. If you support students in Grades 5-8 who need help with fractions, let's talk!

With our SPIRAL project, we've put together lots of math resources for teachers! Check everything out here: mathspiral.com

Here's a bit about our SCALE-UP project! Over the next 4 years, we'll be using a fraction intervention in rural and out-of-school settings.

Over the last 9 months, the PRIME team has welcomed Asu to our team! She's been visiting Texas to learn more about math intervention and word-problem solving. As Asu prepares to leave us and return to Turkey, we want to spotlight her! We will miss Asu greatly!

Finishing a great week in Graz, Austria for #EARLI2025. Got to spend time with colleagues from Germany, Finland, and the Netherlands!

Now, welcome Kerri to the PRIME team! Kerri has spent the majority of her career as a classroom teacher. She is particularly interested in the uptake of evidence-based practices in math, so we are very excited that Kerri has decided to pursue a Ph.D. at Texas. Welcome, Kerri!

We have two new Ph.D. students joining the PRIME team for the fall of 2025. First, welcome Jinyoung! She moved to Austin in August from South Korea. She has a keen interest in math interventions, so she will joining our Grade 4 word-problem tutoring project. Welcome, Jinyoung!

Over the next few weeks, I'll share a bit about our research projects we are implementing in schools. First up is Math Words! With this project, funded by IES, we are implementing modules focused on math vocabulary with Grades 3 and 4 teachers.

Learn more about how keywords are not helpful for solving math word problems! ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

If you're heading to EARLI next week, let me know!

Join me in Ohio on November 14th! I'll be talking about literacy in math!

Need math progress monitoring measures? The TIER math measures are available across Grades K-6. And they are available in both English and Spanish. All FREE! spedsupport.tea.texas.gov/resource-lib...

And last (but not least), meet Kate. Kate's been on the PRIME team for 10 years! Kate's the most organized person I know! She loves thinking about word problems, and she helped design our recent version of Pirate Math Equation Quest. Check it out! www.piratemathequationquest.com

Fun to spend a day in Austin focusing on math vocabulary and hands-on manipulatives! It's fun to think about getting ready for the start of the school year!

The final module of the NCII Math Course highlights data-based decision making in math. This entire course is available to anyone! Check it out! intensiveintervention.org/DBI-math-cou...

This week, I'd like you to meet Clint. Clint leads our SCALE project, a US Department of Education (EIR) grant focused on fractions. Clint is easy going, a problem solver, and will drive all over central Texas to meet with teachers! Learn more about SCALE here: blog.smu.edu/scale/

Happy to get to show one of my students (Jess) around Vanderbilt's Peabody campus this week. What a fun trip down memory lane!

Finishing an incredible two days at the Roberts Academy talking with a fabulous group of teachers! Lots of manipulatives and word problems. Also, it was fun to see my twin, Sam!

Module 7 of the NCII Math Course was a fun module to create! It's all about fractions and how to help students understand the length, area, and set models of fractions. This course is FREE and asynchronous. intensiveintervention.org/rational-num...

This week, I'd like you to meet Megan! She is the driving force behind SPIRAL, an IES project focused on teacher support in math. Megan connects with teachers and our team so easily, and she has a huge heart! Check out some of Megan's work at mathspiral.com

Would you like to learn more about how to help students develop whole-number knowledge? This free NCII Math Course reviews foundational content for students. intensiveintervention.org/whole-number...

What’s going on at UT Austin this summer? Well, today we are in the Lightboard studio working on a brand new math course for educators! This pic answers the most common question I get asked - no, I don’t write backwards. All recordings are done in a mirror with a greenscreen.

Over the next few weeks, I'd like to highlight the PRIME team research leads! First up is Jessica (or JMA). She leads Math Words, an IES project about math vocabulary. JMA is so organized and professional - and I am very lucky she brings her literacy knowledge to Math Words!

We know there's a knowledge-building movement for reading, should there be one for math? @sarahpowellphd.bsky.social says yes. Explicitly teaching the hundreds of math vocabulary terms students need to know, for example, helps students build their math background knowledge.

Read more about using strategy instruction to help students with both math AND reading! This is free to download! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Here's our FREE math course from the NCII. Module 5 (particularly Module 5, part 2) is one of my favorites! Dig into word problems and fluency building! intensiveintervention.org/instructiona...

New paper about a brief word-problem screener for use in the elementary grades. It's free to read this article! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... And then download the screener at: www.piratemathequationquest.com

I had the honor to develop this FREE math course about math intervention for the NCII. Module 4 is one of my favorites! Here, we dig into explicit instruction, use of representations, and math language. intensiveintervention.org/instructiona...

Here's a new read that we wrote for the OPEPP program in Ohio. We dive into how to support vocabulary and word-problem solving in math. A free download! www.opepp.org/wp-content/u...

I love this new artwork in my building! (COE is College of Education)

I love this new artwork in my building! (COE is College of Education)

Just finished an exciting day in Minnesota working with a phenomenal group of people talking about math. Over the next year, we’ll develop teacher resources that will be used statewide! Stay tuned for progress updates.

Need more information about supporting students in #math? The NCII Math Course might be for course. In this module, the focus is on identifying evidence-based practices to use in your math intervention. intensiveintervention.org/evidence-bas...

Super ready to get three days of math started with dozens of educators and coaches from across the state of Connecticut! Let’s do this!

Thrilled to be in Connecticut today learning about their efforts from the last year focused on math - but also their efforts about special education teacher prep and the transition to preschool. Next week, I'll be working with a second cohort of educators about math!

Need math progress monitoring measures? The TIER math measures are available across Grades K-6. And they are available in both English and Spanish. All FREE! spedsupport.tea.texas.gov/resource-lib...

Module 2 of the NCII Math Course is focused on assessment - particularly progress monitoring in math. Check it out! As a reminder, it's all FREE! intensiveintervention.org/progress-mon...

Interesting data coming out of a national survey of adults and what they think about math. www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

The UT Austin crew made it to #MCLS2025! We are excited to share our research on math at home, fractions, math vocabulary, problem posing, and word problems!

Have you ever wanted more information about supporting students in math? Well, the NCII has a FREE, asynchronous course about math intervention. Check it out! intensiveintervention.org/developing-s...

Really excited to be in Hong Kong for #MCL2025! Stay tuned for three days of #math posts from some of the best researchers across the globe!

Going to #MCLS2025? Hope to see you at this session where we will share results from our Math Words project. Come talk math vocabulary with us!

Do you teach math in Texas? Do you want free math progress monitoring measures? Check out these downloadable measures from TIER for Grades K-6. spedsupport.tea.texas.gov/resource-lib...