Great Leaps Math
Overview
Focus
Specific Skills
- Basic Math Operations
Program Length
5 minutes per day, 3 times a week
Program Description
"The Oral Calculation Series (the Great Leaps Math package) uses flip charts in an easel format designed to provide daily oral practice mastering math facts. The program can be used with an entire classroom, in a learning center or for individualized tutoring. Students accomplish a great deal of daily work with instant feedback. The instructor immediately corrects mistakes and then the student writes the correct mathematical fact. This multi-sensory approach very efficiently leads students to mastery of math facts."
Visit Program WebsiteCost
$200 for Complete Calculation Package or components sold individually
More Pricing DetailsDemographics & Delivery
Intended Population
- Intervention
- Intensified intervention
Grade
- Elementary School
- Middle School
- High School
Intended Group Size
- Any
ELL/DLL
- Unspecified
Multisensory Applications
- Yes
Computer-Based Delivery
- None
Scripted
- None
Program Specifics
Comprehensive or Skill Specific
- Skill Specific
Placement Tests
- Yes
Accelerated Learning
- No
Assessment to Monitor Skills Mastery
- Unspecified
Error Correction Built In
- Yes
Fidelity Measures Provided by Publisher
- Unspecified
Research & Evaluation
Research Summary
Both studies found on the efficacy of Great Leaps Math showed positive gains in mathematical fluency with the greatest increases in oral fluency of basic math facts and word prolem solving skills. Both studies included three students with either developmental, attentional, or behavioral challenges.
Study Citations
Jolivette, K., Lingo, A., Houchins, D., Barton-Arwood, S., & Shippen, M. (2006). Building Math Fluency for Students with Developmental Disabilities and Attentional Difficulties Using Great Leaps Math. Education and Training in Developmental Disabilities, 41(4), 392-400. Retrieved from www.jstor.org/stable/23879665
Todd Whitney, Regina G. Hirn & Amy S. Lingo (2016) Effects of a MathematicsFluency Program on Mathematics Performance of Students With Challenging Behaviors,Preventing School Failure: Alternative Education for Children and Youth, 60:2, 133-142, DOI:10.1080/1045988X.2015.1040984
Evidence Base (ESSA)
- No studies met inclusion requirements
Evidence-Based Practice (EBP)
- Insufficient evidence