Math Intervention: Our CCSS aligned math intervention unit provides 14-20 days worth of differentiated problem-solving activities to give students the strategies they need to solve word problems. Perfect for general education, special education, RTI and math intervention! Can be used with students in grades K-3.

Todd the Tallying Toad is a strategy animal in the Problem-Solving Pond series. When students use the tallying strategy, they learn to count and notate groups of 5, strengthening number sense in the process. Tallying is an easy, quick way to double-check solutions for beginning mathematicians.

Todd uses a special rhyming poem to teach the students how to use the tallying strategy to solve a variety of word problems. Todd's unit includes:

--Introduction to Problem-Solving Pond Unit
--Presenting Todd the Tallying Toad
--Suggestions for Use
--Detailed math intervention lesson plan using gradual release of responsibility method
--"I Can" statements
--Problem-solving journal with differentiation and reflection opportunities (perfect for center work, homework or as an assessment)
--Addition and subtraction word problem banks
--Essential questions, self-reflection stems and discussion prompts
--3 Problem-solving rubrics
--"Hazel Meets the Math Strategy Animals" book


BEST VALUE - Math Problem Solving Essentials Bundle {K-3}
Contains an entire year's worth of math intervention problem solving lessons and activities with the following strategy animals:

--Modeling Mouse
--Drawing Dragonfly
--Tallying Toad
--Counting Crocodile
--Hopping Hare
--Tabling Turtle
--Breaking Badger
--Equating Earthworm
--Upton Understanding Fish