Walk-Through Guide

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Create Your Account

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Visit http://successnetplus.com/programs/digits

Click “Register” to access your free demo.

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Enter your information as requested. Use the following access code and click “Register” to create your personal digits teacher demo account.

• Grade6,7,and8demoaccess:IWBmathGR678

Before you begin toexperience digits, you

must create a username and password by

following four steps.

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Your personal digits teacher demo account will be created in just a few seconds. You will receive a confirmation message on the screen along with a confirmation email.

Be sure to note down the username and password you just created; you will need this information to

log in to your digits demo account.

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Now you are ready to explore digitscontent!Gotowww.digitsdashboard.com and log into your personal digits teacher demo account using your username and password.

Create Your Account

Username

Password

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Log OnGotowww.digitsdashboard.com where you can access digitshelpandsupport,viewhelpfultrainingvideosonMyPearsonTraining,andlogintoyourdigits account.

Log on by entering userame and password.

digits Overview Videos.

Access all support and resources at digits Community Connections.

View teacher training videos at MyPearsonTraining.

VisitMyMathUniverse.com,the student portal for digits.

Step 1

Important announcements about digits.

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Log On

Click Pearson Content to access the Library.

Step 2

Create your class here.

Use the drop down arrow in the Library to navigate between grade levels.

Intervention

Enrichment

AssessmentOn Level

Readiness

Folders are Color Coded

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Understanding Program Structure

Inside Each Unit

Teacher Orientation Folder contains important teacher resources.

Unit folders contain On-level and Readiness folders and files.

Inside each topic folder you will find icons that indicate •On-LevelResources•TeachingResources

Open Homework foldersto access MathXL homework files.

Table of Contents

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Understanding Program Structure

Click the + to access the resources in the teacher folder.

Step 3

Click the + on a unit folder to access unit resources.

Step 4

Readiness Assessment screens every student on their understanding of the pre-requisite content for the unit.

digits RTI color key

• Blue – Whole Class• Purple – Differentiated• Orange – Individualized

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Let’s take a closer look at the structure of an entire unit.

Understanding Program Structure

The interACTIVE Learning Cycle provides a simplified view of the program’s instructional pathway with data-driven differentiation and personalization at the unit level.

Units in digits are subdivided into topics. Each topic includes a ReadinessLesson,approximatelysixtotenon-levellessons,aTopicReview,andaTopicTest.

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Understanding Program Structure

Readiness Lesson incorporates differentiated small group work and provides additional instruction according to students’ learner levels.

Teachers can elect to assign enrichment projects to students who demonstrate no or little deficiencies in prerequisites. Projects span the entire unit and focus on higher-order thinking.

Readiness Assessment identifies if each student

needs Intervention or Enrichment resources.

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Teaching a Lesson

Click on the lesson title or choose preview from the drop down menu to view the On-level interActive Lessons from the Table of Contents.

Step 5

After completing the Enrichment lesson...

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DuringOn-LevelLessons,studentsengagewithmathematicalcontent at the start of a class through Problem-Based Interactive Learning. Students work on a real-world problem that enables them to make use of and build on prior knowledge in order to construct new knowledge.

Teaching a Lesson

Click the lesson title or preview to open a lesson.

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Main Navigation Bar enables you to move between the major parts of the lesson.

Secondary Navigation Bar provides quick access to each example.

Left-Right Button enables you to move the screen controls to the left or right side of the screen.

Lesson Navigation

Screen Controls allow you to advance each example or lesson part on your command.

Teaching a Lesson

Theon-levellessonhasthreemajorparts:Launch, Examples, and Close and Check. Simple navigation allowsyoutoeasilymovebetweenthosethreeparts,findaspecificexample,oraspecificscreen.

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Audio Support

Print lesson screen in English or Spanish.

Math Tools more information on Page 15.

Standards covered in the lesson.

Teaching Support notes and links.

Spanish Translation of the on-screen text.

Vocabulary & Key Concepts in both Spanish and English.

Universal FeaturesEvery page has a set of universal features for access at any time.

Teaching a Lesson

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Teaching Support Overview Tab provides information on the objectives,theessentialquestion,thefocusquestion,andauthorintent.

Links torelevantresources,suchastheTeacherGuide,homework,andStudentCompanion pages. Resources can be saved in their native file formats.

Notes Tab gives point-of-use supporttotheteacher,withpacing,suggestedquestions to pose to the class to assess understanding,andmore.

Teaching a Lesson

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Math Tools are virtual manipulatives that enable users tointeractwith,develop,andmodelmathconceptsinreal time. The tools support teachers in constructing and teaching math concepts visually. The tools also support students in exploring variations of a given math concept and deepening their understanding.

To access video tutorials open the help window and select a tool.

Select the tool that you would like to learn about.

Watch the instructional video.

Teaching a Lesson

Click here to access Math Tools.

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The Vocabulary and Key Concepts button opens a new window with the vocabulary and key concepts of the specific lesson that you are teaching pre-sorted into a list. Spanish translation and other search options are built into the window.

Select English or Spanish.

Select a term in the list to view the definition or explanation.

Type or select a different term.

Select a different lesson to view its vocabulary and key concepts.

Teaching a Lesson

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Launch FeaturesThe Lesson Launch feature is designed to engage studentsinmath,drawoutpriorknowledge,andintroduce the lesson concept.

Launch the Lesson.

Maximize white board space

Open a copy of the Companion page and invite students to share their work on the board.

Open the annotated Student Companion page for students to self-check their work.

Step 6

Companion Pages within the student Companion Write-In Worktext provide work space to capture student reasoning. They also contain a Reflect question that either extends the problem or asks the student to reflect on their method of solving.

interActive InstructionClick the lesson title or preview to open a lesson.

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Examples provide explicit instruction of the lesson’s concept and build upon

one another in difficulty and conceptual development.

Each lesson is divided into three examples.

Step 7

interActive Instruction

Click the interactive host button to listen to what they have to say.

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The Key Concept summarizes the content of the lesson to

support understanding.

Click the Key Concept. Step 8

interActive Instruction

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The “Got It?” feature is instructional assessment that teachers can use to determine whether or not the class understood the example. If students are successful with the “Got It?”,theteachercanmoveon.Iftheclassisnotsuccessfulwiththe“Got It?”, the teacher can re-teach the example or make adjustments to teaching the next example.

Model a solution in the open space or on the problem graphics.

or display multiple choice options...

or have students complete the “Got It?” independently on scratch paper and open the solution so students can self check their work.

interActive Instruction

and the correct answer is...

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The Close and Check is designed to bring students back to the Focus Question. Teachers can click on Work It Out to maximize board space forwritingdownclassdiscourseorasummaryofthelesson,open the Companion Page on screen to have students share solutions, or open an annotated solution page for students to self check their work.

Click the Close and Check.

interActive Instruction

Click here to access the Companion Page.

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After the Close and Check students are ready for

Homework and Assessments.

Homework and Assessments

Step 11

Click Preview then select the learner level (G:on/above-level;K:below-level).

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Homework has two parts:One:Lesson Homework includes problems that supporttheinstructionofthecorrespondinglesson.Two:Mixed Review contains exercises that address previously taught content.

Choose an answer format(fraction, mixednumber, exponent,etc.)

Click to access other problems within the assignment.

Hints are provided to assist struggling students.

Video provides a tutorial with an expert teacher to review

the concept at hand.

Students need to click Check Answer, and then Save in order to submit their answer.

Help Me Solve This scaffolds the problem by asking a prompting question at each individual step. Students are provided with instant feedback for each step. When the Helpitemisclosed,theitem algorithmically regenerates with new values for a fresh attempt.

View an Example provides a fully worked out step-by-step solution of a similar problem.

Homework and Assessments

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Homework and Assessments

Homework and Assessments are powered by MathXL® for autograding and other benefits. Printable versions of Homework and Assessments are

also available.

Summative Assessments at the end of a topic and at the end of a unit provide on-going progress monitoring of students’ comprehension of skills and concepts.

Reporting

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Learner levels and settings can be reviewed and modified

through the gradebook.

Whencompletedonline,allhomework,practice,and assessments are automatically graded and tabulated into the gradebook. Once in the gradebook,thedatacanbe sorted and filtered according to your needs.

 

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