Overview of support scaffolds for Imagine Math 3+ students

As Imagine Math 3+ students work their way through their lessons, they have various supports at their disposal to help them understand the concepts and solve the problems. Depending upon the lesson component, available supports include math helps and access to the Live Teacher, digital manipulatives, a calculator, and the ability to look up formulas and terms

These tools are found in the right navigation sidebar for students.
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The table below explains each set of supports and when they can be accessed.

Support Details Lesson Component(s)

Math Help

  • Help 1
  • Help 2
  • Live Teacher 
Students read through 2 explanations/examples related to the question they are working on. If they still need assistance after completing both additional helps, they may access the Live Teacher in either English or Spanish
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Guided Learning

Tools

  • Bar Model
  • Number Line
  • Fraction Pieces
  • Fraction Shapes
  • Area Model
  • Base-10

 

 

Digital manipulatives students can use to visualize the problem. 

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Guided Learning

Reference

  • Calculator
  • Formulas
  • Glossary 

Tools students can use to look up information to help them solve the problem.

Calculator:
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Formulas:
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Glossary:
glossary.pngThe text of the glossary is always in English, but the language of the audio portion of the glossary can be changed to Spanish, Arabic, Vietnamese, Haitian Creole, or Tagalog. 

Always available, unless the calculator has been turned off for the class. Turning off the calculator does not turn off the formulas or the glossary.
Language

Toggle that sets the language of the audio snippets in the math problems to English or Spanish.
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Always available. Read more about language support in this article.