Proactive Mathematics Intervention, High School (Priming for Success Through Engaging Tasks and Purposeful Design)

Shifting from remediation to preparation so all students can thrive in mathematics

Too many high school students placed in Tier 2 and Tier 3 intervention receive the same instruction—repeated, remediated, and reduced. The result: widening gaps, diminished confidence, and continued barriers to course-level content[EN1.1]. Proactive Mathematics Interventions, offers a transformative alternative. Built on a strengths-based, proactive priming model, this resource helps teachers, coaches, and administrators prepare students who need intervention for what is coming mathematically—rather than reacting to what they missed. By building foundational understandings before new course content is introduced, students arrive at grade-level lessons ready to participate, contribute, and succeed.

Grounded in the leading research in mathematics and special education, this volume provides:

• 30 intervention tasks spanning 81 activities across key high school topics—integers and operations, ratios and proportional relationships, expressions, equations and inequalities, functions, measurement, and data and statistics
• Embedded formative assessment techniques—observations, interviews, Show Me prompts, hinge questions, and exit tasks—to monitor student progress and inform instructional next steps
• Ready-to-use printables, concrete-semiconcrete-abstract (CSA) representations, and bridging prompts that connect intervention directly to classroom instruction
• Practical planning tools and end-of-chapter reflection questions designed to support collaborative team use in professional learning communities

When educators shift from fixing students to fixing the structures that are not serving them, every student gains the foundation to access meaningful mathematics—and the confidence to own it.