Half My Class Doesn't Get It — Now What?

It's Tuesday afternoon, and you're using the ALN Worksort Protocol to sort through exit tickets from today's lesson on adding within 100. The quick, low-prep protocol encourages teachers to sort student work samples into piles by the strategy used. This makes the patterns jump out quickly. The first five look good. You are feeling good about today’s lesson. Then you hit the sixth, and something has clearly shifted. The seventh looks the same as the sixth. By the time you're through the stack, you've got a pile of ten exit tickets where students either added the ones correctly but missed the te …

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AI Math Coach in Action: See What It Can Do for Your Classroom

It is 9 p.m. You are staring at tomorrow’s lesson, wondering how to differentiate a fraction task for your student who is still building fluency with whole numbers, and for the three students who will finish in five minutes flat. You don’t have a coach down the hall to bounce ideas off of tonight. But you do have AI Math Coach.

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Starting the Year with Math Menu: Building Routines That Free You Up for Small Group Instruction

Ask any math teacher what they wish they had more of, and the answer is almost always the same: time. Time to sit with a small group. Time to catch a student before they fall further behind. Time to stretch the learning of students who are ready for more. Math Menu is how we find that time.

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Aug 21, 2026

The Cycle of Instruction and Intervention: Leveraging AI Math Coach

Students most often struggle in math because they're expected to memorize procedures rather than actually do mathematics. In practice, this means that instead of developing their own understanding, students are taught to parrot the teacher's understanding. Building instruction around student thinking rather than procedural recall is at the heart of everything we do at ALN. Using an MTSS to Prevent Opportunity Gaps A Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) is a framework schools use to make sure every student gets the level of help they need, without waiting for them to fail first. It's organized …

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10 AI Math Coach Prompts Every Special Educator Should Know

Copy, Paste and Customize, no tech experience required!

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