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Why the change?
We've heard from many schools that the volume of copies needed to use Morningside Math Facts is overwhelming. It takes time, people, and resources to create and maintain organizational systems for making, replenishing, and tracking of all the copies.
It doesn’t help that the cost of paper and ink has skyrocketed.
We took that feedback, analyzed student data from Morningside’s laboratory school, and created Math Facts Student Workbooks with the goal of making it much more cost effective for schools to adopt the program.
The new Student Workbooks are designed to be used as consumables, with each student having their own practice book. No need to rely on an endless resupply of copies anymore!
What’s new?
We slimmed down the curriculum in two ways, enabling students to progress faster:
There are now 14 slices (instead of 16). Slice 1 (adding and subtraction with 0) and Slice 2 (adding and subtracting with 1) have been removed. They will reappear in a future Morningside curriculum focusing on early numeracy skills. Those slices never quite fit, as they taught rules for adding and subtracting 0 and 1, rather than the number family approach in the other 14 slices. Our analysis has shown that many students get stuck on Slices 1 and 2 and on the associated Cumulative and Review slices.
Cumulative Missing Number and Review Missing Number exercises have been removed. There will still be Missing Numbers exercises for every new slice, but once students master those exercises and the New Facts exercises, they'll move to Cumulative Facts and Review Facts exercises.
Box Sheets are now called "New Family" slices, to emphasize the point of those sheets: To learn the facts for each new family introduced. We've redesigned those activities to include step-by-step directions for students so they can proceed with less teacher direction needed.
As a Precision Teaching-based fluency program, Morningside Math Facts was always designed to be used alongside the Standard Celeration Chart. To make organization and preparation of materials simpler, we've integrated three different data recording tools directly into the student workbooks:
A version of the Standard Celeration Chart called the "School Chart" is printed in the front of the book. There are five School Charts, will allows up to 50 weeks of data recording.
At the start of each of the 14 slices, there are two Timings Tracker sheets, where students note their goal for that day/session, record their corrects and errors for each timing, note if they achieved their goal, and note whether they need to continue with timings the next day or need support.
A Progress Tracker is printed at the back of the book. It's an individual version of the Math Facts Wall Chart, where students will note when they meet the AIM for an entire slice.
The front of the book also features an Introduction and How-To section for students.
There will also be supplementary digital materials that will be available to teachers and students, including: Printable Wall Charts and Reference Posters that show the Aims for each sheet.
What’s next?
1. A dedicated Teacher's Manual with instructional scripts and additional resources.
2. An Additional Practice Workbook, with more versions of every slice that teachers can use for students who do not meet their Aims for a slice with the number of versions included in the Student Workbook.
3. An Interventions Workbook, with some of the tools we've developed at our laboratory school to help students who might get stuck, such as number bond slices and single family slices.
