Program Description

"Help kindergartners at risk for math difficulties with these explicit, evidence-based interventions. Used on their own or as a follow-up to the Number Sense Screener™ (NSS™) , the interventions in this user-friendly guide are a fun, simple, and highly effective way to boost key math skills such as oral counting, number recognition, and numeral writing."

Cost

Number Sense Interventions manual: $34.95; additional components sold separately

Intended Population

• Intervention

Grade

• Elementary School

Intended Group Size

• Small group

ELL/DLL

• Unspecified

Multisensory Applications

• No

Computer-Based Delivery

• None

Scripted

• None

Comprehensive or Skill Specific

• Comprehensive

Placement Tests

• Yes

Accelerated Learning

• No

Assessment to Monitor Skills Mastery

• No

Error Correction Built In

• No

Fidelity Measures Provided by Publisher

• Unspecified

Research Summary

Literature review revealed three studies involving kindergarten students. Overall, children who received the number sense intervention performed better than controls at immediate post test. Gains were made on measures of number competencies and general math achievement. In one study, children receiving the intervention made gains in early numeracy and performed better than controls on a standardized test of mathematics calculation at immediate posttest.

Study Citations

Dyson, N. I., Jordan, N. C., & Glutting, J. (2013). A number sense intervention for low-income kindergartners at risk for mathematics difficulties. Journal of learning disabilities, 46(2), 166–181. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022219411410233

Jordan, N. C., Glutting, J., Dyson, N., Hassinger-Das, B., & Irwin, C. (2012). Building Kindergartners' Number Sense: A Randomized Controlled Study. Journal of educational psychology, 104(3), 647–660. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0029018

Dyson, N., Jordan, N. C., Beliakoff, A., Hassinger-Das, B. (2015). A Kindergarten Number Sense Intervention with Contrasting Practice Conditions for Low-Achieving Children (Number-sense intervention with number fact practice vs control)

What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) Report

• Positive effects

Evidence-Based Practice (EBP)

• Evidence-based practice