Making Math Real Instructional Materials

Instructional Materials for Course Participants

Below are a series of prescriptive and fully incremental support materials for your professional use. Each instructional support product is described in detail below and grouped under the MMR course they are aligned with. At the bottom of this page find a Full Catalog of Blackline Master Binders with pop-out Tables of Contents.

FOR MAKING MATH REAL COURSE PARTICIPANTS ONLY: These educational support materials are highly specialized and require specific Making Math Real course instruction in how to use them correctly. Consequently, they are ONLY sold to MMR course participants who have successfully completed the course.

Products aligned with The 9 Lines Intensive course:

245 pages providing more than 30 pages of prescriptive practice for each times table
Comprehensive leveled practice to develop factor times factor, missing factor, and reconstructing factors
Extra feature: extended sections for symbol imaging the 5s table
Ideal for the classroom or private practice

The 100 Multiplication Facts Part A: Imaging the Times Tables is exclusively available to course participants who have completed Making Math Real: The 9 Lines Intensive.

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591 pages providing all 27 combinations of blending two times tables
Comprehensive leveled practice to develop necessary mental flexibility to shift between times tables
Extra feature: introductory Teacher-Guided section to establish students’ neural pathways for shifting between times tables
Ideal for the classroom or private practice

The 100 Multiplication Facts Part B: Developing Automaticity is exclusively available to course participants who have completed Making Math Real: The 9 Lines Intensive.

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NEW! 9 Lines Place Mats (2-sided)

These specially designed placemats are ideal for 9 Lines practice in the home, office or classroom, and are covered with the highest quality laminate. They will last a lifetime. The mats are specifically designed for use with dry or wet erase markers and are 2-sided for working with students imaging the times tables.

9 Lines Placemat: Neighborhood (with Houses)

9 Lines Placemat: Times Tables Organizer (without Houses)

Placemats are 2-sided in color, laminated for use w/ dry or wet erase markers, v. 1.0

Click on the Placemat images above for enlarged views.

The Making Math Real 9 Lines Placemats are exclusively available to course participants who have completed Making Math Real: 9 Lines Intensive.

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Products aligned with The 4 Operations course:

NEW!

106 color-coded pages of structured organizers ready for the color copier
Saves the time and effort of color-coding by hand
All versions of combination placemats and recording houses
Includes both the regular MMR structured version with houses and chimneys and the standard form version without houses and chimneys
Includes all 4 operations: addition, subtraction, multiplications, and division
Perfectly sized to fit the base 10 blocks
Designed to teach the concrete and semi-concrete codes of place and place value and their concept-applications across the 4 operations
Ideal for the classroom or private practice
Specially paginated to match respective pages from the 2021 The 4 Operations and the 400 Math Facts course binder

NEW! The 4 Operations Color-Coded Templates is exclusively available to course participants who have completed Making Math Real: The 4 Operations & 400 Math Facts.

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Version 3.0: 322 pages providing 10 times the prescriptive practice as the previous version
Intensive Leveled Practice for each addition fact configuration
Extra Feature: Includes extended sections for compatible numbers in addition
Ideal for the classroom or private practice

The 100 Addition Facts v. 3.0 is exclusively available to course participants who have completed Making Math Real: The 4 Operations & 400 Math Facts.

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Version 3.0: Fully updated and upgraded
90% more practice pages than Version 2.0
Comprehensive prescription & incrementation for all levels
Teacher answer key for every page

The 100 Subtractions Facts v. 3.0 is exclusively available to course participants who have completed Making Math Real: The 4 Operations & 400 Math Facts.

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Version 3.0: 145 pages providing maximum prescriptive practice for developing automaticity with the division facts
Comprehensive leveled practice for finding quotients, dividends and divisors across all the tables
Use with Making Math Real 100 Multiplication Facts Parts A and B to maximize integration of multiplication and division facts
Ideal for the classroom or private practice, or home

The 100 Division Facts v. 3.0 is exclusively available to course participants who have completed Making Math Real: The 4 Operations & 400 Math Facts.

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Guided Application Worksheet Masters, original version 2.0 [not new: only cover updated in 2021]

Presents all levels 1 – 7 of renaming in addition
Specifically structured and sequenced to connect number sentence form to standard form
Integrates all combinations of 100 addition facts
70 pages of comprehensive leveled practice
Extensive mixed practice throughout
Teacher answer key for every page
Ideal for classroom or private practice

Addition: Levels I-VII is exclusively available to course participants who have completed Making Math Real: The 4 Operations & 400 Math Facts.

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Guided Application Worksheet Masters, original version 2.0 [not new: only cover updated in 2021]

Presents all levels 1 – 7 of renaming in subtraction
Specifically structured and sequenced to connect number sentence form to standard form
Integrates all combinations of 100 subtraction facts
70 pages of comprehensive leveled practice
Extensive mixed practice throughout
Teacher answer key for every page
Ideal for classroom or private practice

Subtraction: Levels I-VII is exclusively available to course participants who have completed Making Math Real: The 4 Operations & 400 Math Facts.

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Guided Application Worksheet Masters, version 1.0

97 pages of structured mixed practice
Includes sections of mixed practice for the addition and subtraction facts and for addition and subtraction problem solving
Problem solving section incorporates even distribution of all the addition and subtraction fact combinations
Problem solving section structured into comprehensive leveled practice
Incremental structure develops the self-regulatory executive function of set shifting (mental flexibility)
Empowers educators to provide prescriptive practice for all students
Teacher answer key for every page
Ideal for classroom or private practice

NEW! Mixed Practice for Addition & Subtraction is exclusively available to course participants who have completed Making Math Real: The 4 Operations & 400 Math Facts.

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Guided Application Worksheet Masters, original version 2.0 [not new: only cover updated in 2021]

Presents all levels 1 – 7 of renaming in multiplication for single-digit multipliers
Specifically structured and sequenced to connect number sentence form to standard form
Integrates all combinations of 100 multiplication facts
72 pages of comprehensive leveled practice
Extensive mixed practice throughout
Teacher answer key for every page
Ideal for classroom or private practice

Multiplication: Levels I-VII is exclusively available to course participants who have completed Making Math Real: The 4 Operations & 400 Math Facts.

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Guided Application Worksheet Masters, original version 2.0 [not new: only cover updated in 2021]

Presents all levels 1 – 4 of long division with single-digit divisors
Specifically structured to connect all three forms of division: standard form, number sentence form and fraction form.
Integrates all combinations of 100 division facts
Includes all divisor-dividend combinations
105 pages of comprehensive leveled practice
Extensive mixed practice throughout
Teacher answer key for every page
Ideal for classroom or private practice

Long Division: Levels I-IV – Single-Digit Divisors is exclusively available to course participants who have completed Making Math Real: The 4 Operations & 400 Math Facts.

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Guided Application Worksheet Masters, version 2.0

181 pages of the most detailed prescriptive practice exclusively for double-digit divisors
Comprehensively leveled and balanced problem sets designed for maximum practice with the multiplication and division facts
Provides every kind of double-digit divisor problem
Special added feature: extensive practice section for transition to double-digit divisors
Special added feature: extensive mixed practice section integrating all long division levels 1-8
Teacher answer key for every page
Ideal for the classroom or private practice

Long Division: Levels V-VIII – Double-Digit Divisors is exclusively available to course participants who have completed Making Math Real: The 4 Operations & 400 Math Facts.

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These Base 10 puzzles provide the single most effective development of number sense available by helping students integrate the executive processes that directly support activating and sustaining working memory for numeration. Levels I through V additionally develop:

The mental organizing structures to cross place value landmarks (tens) while counting forwards or backwards
The essential processing foundation for automaticity with the addition and subtraction facts
Mental flexibility (set shifting) and sequential processing

In addition, The Base 10 Puzzles provides:

269 pages of intensive and prescriptive practice
Complete sets of blank templates to make your own puzzles
Assessment data for measuring executive function, working memory, number sense, sequencing, and numeration
Ideal for classroom or private practice

Note: The Base 10 Puzzles replaces the previous version of 100 Chart Puzzles.

The Base 10 Puzzles is exclusively available to course participants who have completed Making Math Real: Kindergarten (level I) and Making Math Real: The 4 Operations & 400 Math Facts (Levels II-V).

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Making Math Real is pleased to announce the second part of the extended series of number sense development books: Level VI of the Base 10 Puzzles.

These Base 10 Puzzles, Part 2 provide the single most effective development of number sense available by helping students to integrate the executive processes that directly support activating and sustaining working memory for numeration. In continuing the development from Part 1 of the series, Levels I-V (1-99), Level VI (1-999) additionally develops:

The mental organizing structures to cross place value landmarks (hundreds and tens) while counting forwards or backwards: serially increasing and/or decreasing numbers by one, nine, ten, and eleven
The essential processing foundation for automaticity with the addition and subtraction facts
Mental flexibility (set shifting) and sequential processing
Extension applications of renaming in addition and subtraction across tens and hundreds
Extension applications of place and place value

In addition, The Base 10 Puzzles, Part 2 provide:

326 pages of intensive and prescriptive practice
Complete sets of blank templates to make your own puzzles
Assessment tool for measuring executive function, working memory, number sense, sequencing, and numeration
Ideal for classroom or private practice

The Base 10 Puzzles, Part 2 is exclusively available to course participants who have completed Making Math Real: The 4 Operations & 400 Math Facts (Levels II-VI).

NOTE: The Base 10 Puzzles Part 2, Level VI replaces the previous version of 100 Chart Puzzles.

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The printed dry erase white boards are ideal for whole class, small group, and one-to-one instruction, and are a valuable educational tool for providing high-engagement, prescriptive practice for students while simplifying and improving management for teachers.

2-Digit Place Value White Boards* for All Elementary Grades, K-5, provide mental organization and structure for:

2-digit number concepts
2-digit expanded notation
Partial sums (Silly Numbers)
2-digit addition with and without renaming
2-digit subtraction with and without renaming
Single-digit multipliers with and without renaming

* Available only for course participants having completed Making Math Real: Kindergarten and/or Making Math Real: The 4 Operations & the 400 Math Facts

3-Digit Place Value White Boards* for All Elementary Grades, K-5, provide mental organization and structure for:

3-digit number concepts
3-digit expanded notation
3-digit addition with and without renaming
3-digit subtraction with and without renaming
3-digit by 1-digit multiplication with and without renaming

* Available only for course participants having completed Making Math Real: The 4 Operations & the 400 Math Facts

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All of The 4 Operations Place Value Mats are:

Color-coded and laminated for use w/ dry or wet erase markers
Ideal for the classroom or private practice
Perfectly sized to fit the base-10 blocks (except mat #1a sized for unifix cubes)
Designed to teach the concrete and semi-concrete codes of place, place value, and addition and subtraction with renaming
Available individually or as a complete set of 9 mats (NEW!)

NEW! Place Value Mat #1a: 2-Digit Number Concepts for Kindergarten and Up: Sized for Unifix Cubes
Used for teaching the concrete and semi-concrete concepts of:

Place for ones and tens
2-digit place value

Place Value Mat #1b: 2-Digit Number Concepts for Kindergarten and Up: Sized for Base 10 Blocks
Used for teaching the concrete and semi-concrete concepts of:

Place for ones and tens
2-digit place value

NEW! Place Value Mat #1c: Comparing 2-Digit Numbers for Kindergarten and Up: Sized for Base 10 Blocks
Used for teaching the concrete and semi-concrete concepts of:

Comparing 1 and 2-digit numbers

Place Value Mat #2: 2-Digit Number Concepts for 1st Grade and Up
Used for teaching the concrete and semi-concrete concepts of:

2-digit place value
Readiness for addition with renaming: “Silly Numbers”: transforming partial sums to standard numbers
2-digit subtraction with and without renaming
Readiness for subtraction with renaming: “Reverse Silly Numbers”: transforming standard numbers to partial sums

Place Value Mat #3: 3-Digit Number Concepts for 2nd Grade and Up
Used for teaching the concrete and semi-concrete concepts of:

Place for hundreds, tens and ones
3-digit place value
3-digit subtraction with and without renaming

Place Value Mat #4: 2-Digit Addition Concepts for 1st and 2nd Grade and Up
Used for teaching the concrete and semi-concrete concepts of:

Addition without renaming for first grade
Addition with renaming for second grade and up

NEW! Place Value Mat #5: 3-Digit Addition Concepts for 2nd Grade and Up
Used for teaching the concrete and semi-concrete concepts of:

Addition without renaming for second grade
Addition with renaming for second grade and up

NEW! Place Value Mat #6: 2-Digit by 1-Digit Multiplication for 3rd Grade and Up and 2-digit column addition for 2nd Grade and Up
Used for teaching the concrete and semi-concrete concepts of:

Partial products (Advanced Silly Numbers) for third grade and up
Single-digit multipliers for 2-d x 1-d for third grade and up
Column addition with (and without) renaming for second grade and up

NEW! Place Value Mat #7: 3-Digit by 1-Digit Multiplication for 3rd Grade and Up and 3-digit column addition for 2nd Grade and Up
Used for teaching the concrete and semi-concrete concepts of:

Single-digit multipliers for 3-d x 1-d for third grade and up
Column addition with (and without) renaming for second grade and up

Click on the Place Value Mat images above for enlarged views.

The 4 Operations Place Value Mats are exclusively available to course participants who have completed Making Math Real: Kindergarten (1a, 1b, 1c) and/or Making Math Real: The 4 Operations & 400 Math Facts (full set).

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Products aligned with the Fractions course:

Fractions I, the first book in the Making Math Real Fractions Books series, presents the essential foundational structures that directly support all future fractions applications across the grades, which include the concept-applications of fraction magnitude, sequencing, generating equivalent fractions, simplifying equivalent fractions to lowest terms and the basis for the successful integration of the four operations with fractions. Fractions I has two sections, the first presents the four concepts of fractions: 1) Parts of a Whole 2) Parts of a Group 3) Parts of a Segment 4) Parts of a Cup; and the second section presents the comprehensive sequence and increments for transforming lowest terms fractions to equivalent fractions and simplifying equivalent fractions to lowest terms.

Fractions I provides:

Concept-applications for developing fraction number sense
Perceptual bases for the comprehension of numerator/denominator relationships of 3-dimensional, 2-dimensional, and 1-dimensional fraction models
Conceptual and mathematical bases for classifying fractions as equivalents or lowest terms
Essential foundational preparation for addition and subtraction with like and unlike denominators
Essential foundational preparation for cross-simplifying fractions in multiplication and division
119 pages of comprehensive leveled practice
Extensive mixed practice throughout
Teacher answer key for every page
Ideal for classroom or private practice

Fractions I for guided application is exclusively available to course participants who have completed Making Math Real: Fractions, Decimals & Advanced Place Value.

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Fractions IIA is the second book in the Making Math Real Fractions Books series, and is the first part of presenting the guided applications of the 4 operations with proper and mixed fractions. Fractions IIA continues the concept-applications presented in Fractions I that specifically support addition and subtraction of proper and mixed fractions with like and unlike denominators: students’ applications of generating equivalent fractions with least common denominators. In support of the challenging applications of addition and subtraction with proper and mixed fractions with unlike denominators, Fractions IIA provides structured practice for the successful integration of all four phases of concrete to abstract.

Fractions IIA provides:

Guided concrete to abstract practice for singular structure for generating equivalent fractions with like denominators across all three denominator relationships
Levels I – IV of renaming in addition and subtraction for mixed and proper fractions with like and unlike denominators
Concrete to abstract practice for transforming mixed fractions to improper fractions and improper fractions to mixed fractions
Extra section for addition with 3 or more fractions with like and unlike denominators
141 pages of comprehensive leveled practice
Extensive mixed practice throughout
Teacher answer key for every page
Ideal for classroom or private practice

Fractions IIA for guided application is exclusively available to course participants who have completed Making Math Real: Fractions, Decimals & Advanced Place Value.

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Fractions IIB is the third book in the Making Math Real Fractions Books series, and is the second part of presenting the guided applications of the 4 operations with proper and mixed fractions. Fractions IIA, the first part of the 4 operations with fractions presented addition and subtraction with proper and mixed fractions; and Fractions IIB completes the progression of the guided applications of the 4 operations with multiplication and division of proper and mixed fractions. A major focus of Fractions IIB is the concept-application of cross-simplify, a powerful algebraic math tool that is invaluable throughout higher mathematics as well as in the mathematical applications within chemistry and physics. In addition, Fractions IIB provides comprehensive mixed practice synthesizing all 4 operations of proper and mixed fractions.

Fractions IIB provides:

Complete practice applications for developing cross-simplifying and extra simplifying of proper and mixed fractions
Extensive section for synthesizing the 4 operations with proper and mixed fractions
Guided practice for why, in dividing fractions, the divisor is transformed to a multiplier
Excellent preparation for algebra readiness
115 pages of comprehensive leveled practice
Extensive mixed practice throughout
Teacher answer key for every page
Ideal for classroom or private practice

Fractions IIB, version 3.0, is only available to course participants who have completed Making Math Real: Fractions, Decimals & Advanced Place Value.

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Celebrating 25 Years! NEW Product in the Series: Making Math Real is pleased to announce the publication of Fractions III: Comparing and Ordering Fractions, which continues the Making Math Real Fractions Books Series including Fractions I, Fractions IIA, and Fractions IIB. This new book is the culmination of many years in the making. It provides comprehensive coverage and systematic incrementation for both mental and mathematical applications for developing the essential fraction number sense for understanding and applying fraction magnitude, and is divided into two sections: SECTION 1: The Four Styles of Comparing, Ordering, and Rounding Fractions Mentally, and SECTION 2: The Eight Levels of Comparing and Ordering Fractions Mathematically. These two sections provide:

Most efficient structures, mental and mathematical, for all categories of fraction comparison
Complete concept-applications for developing fraction number sense*
Developing numerator/denominator relationships: the perceptual basis for understanding, applying, and classifying fraction magnitude by respective categories
Excellent preparation for algebra readiness
Highest order development and applications of mental flexibility and detail analysis

In addition, Fractions III: Comparing and Ordering Fractions includes:

181 pages of the specific incremental and systematic sequences for developing mental and mathematical applications for comparing, ordering and rounding fractions
Comprehensive leveled practice
Extensive mixed practice throughout
Teacher answer key for every page
Ideal for classroom and/or private practice

* Fraction-related applications present one of the largest domains in the K-12 development of mathematics, as fractions are included within the scope and sequences of every grade spanning kindergarten through calculus; and according to research, fractions and their applications, especially the comprehension and applications of fraction magnitude, have remained at an 80% failure rate nationwide for decadesª.

ª Hard Lessons: Why Rational Number Arithmetic Is So Difficult for So Many People Robert S. Siegler and Hugues Lortie-Forgues, Current Directions in Psychological Science, 2017, Vol. 26(4) 346–351.

NEW! Fractions III: Comparing and Ordering Fractions is exclusively available to course participants who have completed Making Math Real: Fractions, Decimals & Advanced Place Value.

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This exciting book provides the most detailed, incremental, and comprehensive problem sets in history, enabling the educator to maximize prescription for all students:

159 pages of intensive prescriptive practice for all students
Continues the full integration and application of levels I – VIII of whole number long division
Provides every kind of divisor to dividend relationship
Special added feature: extensive practice section for transforming decimal divisors
Teacher answer key for every page
Ideal for classroom or private practice

Decimal Long Division: Levels I-VI with Single and Double-Digit Divisors is exclusively available to course participants who have completed Making Math Real: Fractions, Decimals & Advanced Place Value.

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Whole Number and Decimal Place Value (“Whole Cakes and Pieces”) White Boards* for all grades, 3-12, provide mental organization and structure for:

Increasing and decreasing decimals by powers of 10
Multiplication and division with decimals
Standard form, word form, expanded form, and exponent form practice and connections
Fraction-decimal-percent conversions
Scientific notation
Decoding and encoding positive and negative exponents
Fraction-decimal-exponent connections

* Available only for course participants having completed Making Math Real: Fractions, Decimals & Advanced Place Value

Advanced Place Value through the Billions White Boards* for all grades, 3-12, provide mental organization and structure for:

Development of place and place value for large numbers
Increasing and decreasing whole numbers by powers of 10
Standard form, word form, expanded form, and exponent form practice and connections
Scientific notation
Decoding and encoding the powers of 10 exponent system

* Available only for course participants having completed Making Math Real: Fractions, Decimals & Advanced Place Value

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Products aligned with the Kindergarten course:

The mental organizing structures to cross place value landmarks (tens) while counting forwards or backwards
The essential processing foundation for automaticity with the addition and subtraction facts
Mental flexibility (set shifting) and sequential processing

In addition, The Base 10 Puzzles provides:

269 pages of intensive and prescriptive practice
Complete sets of blank templates to make your own puzzles
Assessment data for measuring executive function, working memory, number sense, sequencing, and numeration
Ideal for classroom or private practice

Note: The Base 10 Puzzles replaces the previous version of 100 Chart Puzzles.

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All the MMR Place Mats are:

Color-coded, laminated and ready for immediate use
Ideal for the classroom or private practice
Perfectly sized to fit the base-10 blocks
Designed to teach the concrete and semi-concrete codes of place, place value, and addition and subtraction with renaming
Available separately or as a complete set

NEW Place Mat #1a: 2-Digit Number Concepts for Kindergarten: Sized for Unifix Cubes
Used for teaching the concrete and semi-concrete concepts of:

Place for ones and tens
2-digit place value

Place Mat #1b: 2-Digit Number Concepts for Kindergarten: Sized for Base 10 Blocks
Used for teaching the concrete and semi-concrete concepts of:

Place for ones and tens
2-digit place value

NEW Place Mat #1c: 2-Digit Number Concepts for Kindergarten and Up
Used for teaching the concrete and semi-concrete concepts of:

Comparing 1 and 2-digit numbers

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Making Math Real Finger Counting Cards for Kindergarten.

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Products for Games & Color-Coding:

Introducing our newly designed, extra-durable Making Math Real blank-on-one-side playing cards for making prescriptive math games:

Perfectly sized to kids’ hands, double-coating for durable and long-lasting use, easier to shuffle, retains and preserves permanent marker ink
Available to everyone — no coursework necessary to purchase these useful cards!
Box of 450 blank cards: only $40 plus tax, shipping & handling

Learn to make math card games: Join the Making Math Real: Games! course to learn how to make, apply and play high interest games to support the multisensory structured methods of Making Math Real.

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Full Catalog of the Blackline Master Binder Series

About The Worksheet Masters Series: Making Math Real has published 17 prescriptive and fully incremental support materials for your professional use. These materials are highly specialized and require specific Making Math Real course instruction in how to use them correctly. Consequently, they are only available to course participants in-serviced in their use. The Guided Application Worksheet Masters and the Symbol Imaging Worksheet Masters are ideal for supplementing any and all textbooks. These materials provide the MMR course participant with specific and prescriptive practice designed to maximize student success, retention, and concept-procedure integration. All problem sets have been carefully designed to include all content combinations, configurations, increments and levels to ensure maximum connection and comprehension.

FOR COURSE PARTICIPANTS ONLY: Making Math Real has published a series of prescriptive and fully incremental support materials for your professional use. These materials are highly specialized and require specific Making Math Real course instruction in how to use them correctly. Consequently, they are only available to course participants in-serviced in their use.

SYMBOL IMAGING WORKSHEET MASTERS: All of the following support materials are only available to course participants who have completed the course, Making Math Real: The 4 Operations & The 400 Math Facts. Multiplication Part A and B are available to course participants who have completed the course, Making Math Real: The 9 Lines Intensive. (Click on covers for pop-out Table of Contents)