Jess Mao

First first-author pub is out! We identified common errors that upper elementary students with math difficulty make on computation and word problems and found little overlap of the same error types (like computation) between the two. @sarahpowellphd @LIMEphd

What a wonderful week at SMU with our LIME students. Here we are with our 6 LIME students who will graduate in 2026!

With our SCALE project, we're working with teachers and interventionists as they use a fraction intervention called Fraction Face-Off. If you support students in Grades 5-8 who need help with fractions, let's talk!

It’s important to monitor the fidelity of classroom instruction to determine if an intervention is working for students as intended. Learn about the foundations of measuring fidelity and access free fidelity monitoring tools on our website: irrc.education.uiowa.edu/resources/apps…

Need math progress monitoring measures? The TIER math measures are available across Grades K-6. And they are available in both English and Spanish. All FREE! spedsupport.tea.texas.gov/resource-libra…

I had the honor to develop this FREE math course about math intervention for the NCII. Module 4 is one of my favorites! Here, we dig into explicit instruction, use of representations, and math language. intensiveintervention.org/instructional-…

@DKThomp @rastokke I would like to see the research behind why this is a good idea.

New SF public school plan would - eliminate homework and weekly tests from counting toward semester grade - allow students to take the final exam multiple times - convert all B grades into As, and all Fs into Cs It’s hard to see the difference between this policy and what you’d get if a bunch of 10yos locked the teachers in a closet and rewrote the rules.

Do you teach middle or high school math? Interested this summer in doing some beta testing about using AI to help with your grading? Please reach out to these UT Austin students who are doing work in this area!

🎯 Speaking of definitions, fluency has a clear meaning—going back to Carl Binder. Fluency is a combination of accuracy + speed = true mastery! behavior.org/resources/214.…

Finished out our first co-teaching of a math methods course on a super sweet note! Couldn’t have asked for a better co-instructor and class @MsHardy123

Yes, we’re coming for math. It needs to be fixed.

Use that data! Find me and the proven practices team at CEC for more!

If you’re going to #CEC2025 next week, be sure to check out these presentations on fraction arithmetic and word-problem solving 😉

I had the opportunity to create 23 FREE and DOWNLOADABLE modules for the teaching of math. Over the next few months, I'll highlight these! First up, place value! Check out these lesson guides, problem sets, and vocabulary cards! buff.ly/4bkxpyQ

Two weeks from today. Join me and my colleague Brad Witzel for a 3-hour workshop at #CEC2025 from 9-12. We'll be talking #math and whole numbers, fractions, and word problems. You have to register for this before the conference: buff.ly/4gSADe9

You can teach the best vocab lesson, but long-term retention comes from retrieval & spaced practice. I’ve adapted @OchreEducation daily review sheet using cogsci staples (spaced retrieval, interleaving) & also word grouping. Now, wouldn’t it be nice if AI could help plan this?

Come chat with me about students’ computation and word-problem solving next Friday 2/7 at #PCRC2025! @LIMEphd

This chart encapsulates today's NAEP Score report. Only high achieving kids are making some catch up progress, the bottom is falling. Read my story: hechingerreport.org/naep-test-2024…

✅ EXPLICIT TEACHING! These one-pagers explore the main advantages of explicit guidance based on research from cognitive science and summarise how to carry out well-crafted lessons using Explicit Direct Instruction (EDI). 🌱 REPOST first and grab free HQ copies from my website: jamieleeclark.com/graphics