Speak Agent Gives You the Tools to Implement Middle Grades Math Teaching Best Practices
Math+Language 6-8 is both a teaching tool and a platform for student engagement. It helps students master key academic concepts and develops critical skills such as math communication, modeling, algebraic thinking, and reasoning. How? By seamlessly integrating academic language activities, real-world math stories, reading and writing scaffolds, and tools for students to create and share their own math problems. All Speak Agent content aligns with your existing curriculum. It's easy to implement and has been shown by NSF research to be impactful with a dosage of as little as 30 minutes per week.
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Word Gallery is a great way to visually introduce new math concepts to your class. It works well on a projector or screen sharing in Zoom. Or, students can use it as a digital word wall!
Math reading passages in Speak Agent, such as this Read Along, serve as a focal point for classroom discourse. All student responses are captured in the digital portfolio.
The digital portfolio stores open-ended responses, writing samples, voice recordings, and creative projects.
Diagram It! provides opportunities to review, label, and explain diagrams in writing or recorded speech. Writing and speaking activities in Speak Agent capture student work samples in a digital portfolio, providing actionable data.
Math Puzzle Maker enables students to create math puzzles for their peers to solve. Students can then compare answers with the puzzle creator.
Story-based activities like Tall Tales use context clues to develop comprehension of the material.
Sentence processing activities like Scrambled Sentences build comprehension by breaking mathematical explanations and stories into manageable chunks that students can manipulate.
Vocab Lab presents a short passage that uses a target math term in a real-world context. Next, students combine basic words they have already learned to define the target term.
Modules and Standards
Math+Language 6-8 consists of easy-to-implement modules that are tailored to fit your scope, sequence, and pacing.
View Math 6-8 modules and standards
Program Support
Speak Agent supports ESL, Title I, dual-language, and multi-language math programs. It is optimized for English Learners and other marginalized learners. It uses research-based, multimodal instructional strategies to help students make connections to background knowledge, master complex concepts, and acquire the language needed for self-expression. Students improve their ability to communicate both verbally and in writing with precision and confidence.