We know that content knowledge and effective instructional strategies are critical for improving student learning. We also know that “one size doesn’t fit all” when it comes to professional development. In order to help schools and districts maximize math achievement, Scholastic and Math Solutions offer school districts different levels of professional development designed to complement Do The Math.

In designing this program, Marilyn Burns embedded professional learning throughout every module. Each module includes a Teacher Guide that provides all the information needed for preparing to teach the lessons, step-by-step teaching instructions, and guidance for monitoring student progress. Each module also includes the TeacherSpace binder for organizing professional materials and CD-ROM with videos, reproducibles, and professional articles. Finally, each module comes with the appropriate book from Marilyn Burns’ Teaching Arithmetic series.

Program Implementation Support
Scholastic designs half-day sessions to give teachers hands-on support with the components of the program. Sessions can be designed to focus on a particular module or topic, if requested by a school district.



Founded by Marilyn Burns, Math Solutions is one of the leading providers of professional development, and Scholastic is pleased to be collaborating with Math Solutions to offer another level of support to school districts implementing Do The Math. Working with your math standards and the Do The Math program, an experienced team of Math Solutions Education Specialists develops a series or course to address your school district’s specific intervention needs.

Multi-day Immersion Courses
These two day or longer courses narrow into specific Do The Math modules and content, giving teachers a deeper knowledge of the content in those modules as well as student misconceptions. Teachers learn how to maximize the instructional strategies used in Do The Math to help struggling students develop accurate and efficient computation skills, build number sense, and apply their skills and reasoning to problem solving. .

Ongoing Coaching Series
Using Do The Math modules, teachers learn how to develop students’ abilities to think and reason; build students’ number sense, computation, and problem-solving skills; assess students’ understanding; and organize instruction for whole-class, small-group, and individual learning. Teachers strengthen their content knowledge by doing a careful and thorough analysis of students’ misconceptions and typical errors in the Number and Operations strand. Teachers learn specific and intentional teaching solutions, scaffolded and paced for student success and accessible for teachers to use.