Building Mathematical Structure Intervention Resource
Building Mathematical Structure Intervention Resource
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Notice the Structure: Building Deep Number Sense Through Place Value, Scale & Relational Thinking
This resource is designed for upper elementary and middle school students who can “do the steps” — but lack deep number sense.
If your students:
Struggle with place value beyond memorized rules
Default to additive thinking when multiplication is required
Can compute but don’t understand scale
Struggle with relational reasoning and magnitude
…this resource targets those gaps directly.
Instead of worksheets full of procedural practice, this intervention builds:
✔ Unitizing (seeing 300 as 3 hundreds)
✔ Scaling & powers of ten reasoning
✔ Additive vs. multiplicative structure
✔ Mental math grounded in place value
✔ Relational thinking across operations
✔ Flexible decomposition strategies
✔ Inverse reasoning between multiplication & division
Each activity is designed to push students to notice patterns, explain reasoning, compare strategies, and generalize structure — the foundations of true mathematical understanding.
This is ideal for:
RTI / Tier 2 & Tier 3 intervention
Upper elementary remediation
Middle school number sense repair
Small group conceptual instruction
Students who struggle with proportional reasoning foundations