Data to Differentiate Instruction

Intuitive Data at Your Fingertips

Students come with a wide range of backgrounds, knowledge, and experiences. Ready Florida B.E.S.T. Mathematics helps teachers optimize class time by providing deep knowledge of students’ learning needs.

1. Start of School

Ease students into routines using Lesson 0.

Administer the adaptive Diagnostic.

2. Post-Diagnostic

Identify and address unfinished learning with insights from the Prerequisites report.

3. Recommended Guidance and Resources

Small Group Resources

Whole Class Prerequisite Lessons, Guidance, and Support

4. Instruction

Small Group Instruction

Whole Class Instruction

Prerequisites Report

Use the Prerequisites report to address unfinished learning, either during small group or whole class instruction, depending on the needs of the class.

Whole Class Instruction

Use this pacing and guidance to adjust lesson plans to address prerequisites during whole class instruction when most students have similar learning needs.

Teach Prerequisite Lessons.
Consolidate other lessons in the unit.
Use on-the-spot prerequisite support during grade-level instruction.

Small Group Instruction

Strategically pace the recommended resources throughout the unit with small groups of students to address their similar learning needs.

Actionable Insights for Flexible Planning

Ready Florida B.E.S.T. Mathematics builds informal and formal assessment opportunities into the lesson with suggestions for real-time differentiation. Reports are in depth, yet intuitive, making it easy to plan the next steps for instruction.

There are multiple opportunities to observe student understanding during the lesson:

Make Sense of the Problem
Try It
Connect It
Reflect

Quick Check and Remediation
Pair/Share
Independent Practice
Error Alerts

Actionable Insights for Flexible Planning, Cont’d.

Evaluate student understanding and monitor progress toward learning benchmarks and goals.

Lesson Quizzes
Mid-Unit and Unit Assessments
Standards Mastery (Grades 2–8)

Personalized Instruction Reports*

Monitor how students are responding to instruction at the individual and class level, and closely track Lesson Time-on-Task
Target the specific skills with which students need support most in whole class, small group, and one-on-one instruction
*Available with the purchase of i-Ready Personalized Instruction

Standards Mastery (Grades 2–8)

Built to assess grade-level proficiency on Florida’s B.E.S.T. Standards for Mathematics.

Standards Mastery Results by Test (Class) Evaluate student understanding of content and assessment of Florida’s B.E.S.T. Standards for Mathematics.
Standards Mastery Results by Test (Student) Gain insight through the detailed analysis provided for each student’s answers, including possible misconceptions and rationales for incorrect responses.

Differentiation Made Easy

Effective differentiation requires a thoughtful approach. Ready Florida B.E.S.T. Mathematics provides insightful data and purposeful resources, so teachers have what they need, when they need it.

Before the Lesson

Using the data from the Florida Prerequisites report, teachers can provide review of and intervention for critical topics and connect to specific differentiation resources, including:

Prerequisite Lessons and Interactive Tutorials (where applicable) that help address students’ learning needs
Teacher Toolbox that provides access to all K–8 resources to support whole class instruction and small group differentiation

During the Lesson

Hands-On Activities, strategically placed at critical points of the lesson, provide suggestions to guide instruction.
Fluency and Skills Practice provides brief and targeted practice to those students who need more opportunities to build mathematical skills within the lesson, where applicable.
Try It section of the lesson provides dedicated instructional time for differentiated instruction with informal observations and evidence of student understanding.

Differentiation Made Easy, Cont’d.

After the Lesson

Differentiation options for each lesson let teachers reteach, reinforce, and extend learning to meet the needs of all learners.
Tools for Instruction are mini-lessons for reteaching lesson concepts.
Math Center Activities are purposefully designed for on-, below-, and above-level students.
Enrichment Activities challenge students with higher-order thinking tasks, where applicable.
Learning Games* offer fun, challenging, and personalized practice and help students develop a growth mindset. *Available with the purchase of
i-Ready Personalized Instruction