This guide explains how to teach elementary math to struggling learners, particularly students with disabilities and at-risk concerns. It focuses on instructional strategies and methods and the use of progressions, scope, and sequence in math, drawing on the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics. It outlines the foundations of math education, including the characteristics of strategic vs. nonstrategic learners, long-term planning and assessment, setting expectations, and mastery learning; the importance of instruction and how to interpret and use standards, and evidence-based and supported practices for teaching; multi-tiered systems of support in math; and teaching math vocabulary, number sense, whole-number operations, rational-number concepts and computation, geometry and measurement, and algebra. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)