But which students need extra practice sessions?\u00a0 \u00a0Under Resources\/Educator Resources <\/a>I’ve created two versions of a\u00a0tool that can help. Whole Class Excel Rocket Math (2 operations in a year) Aimline<\/a>.\u00a0 This is pictured to the right.\u00a0 It is needed for 2nd grade and 4th grade and up when students need to finish one operation and do a second one in a year.\u00a0 The expectations needed to pass two operations in one year are basically that students should pass two\u00a0sets\u00a0each week.<\/strong>\u00a0 If they have studied some the year before, they will be able to pass\u00a0sets in the first operation at a quick pace.\u00a0 For example if they have done much of Rocket Math Addition in first grade, in second grade they should be able to pass those addition\u00a0sets again in a day or two.\u00a0 That will put them ahead of the expectations and they should have a plus by their name most of the year.\u00a0 Conversely, if they are not able to pass sets quickly, (see the students highlighted in yellow) they will get a minus by their name and should start getting extra sessions scheduled daily.<\/p>\n Please note: The pictured EXAMPLE Rocket Math Excel Aimline<\/a> is available from the link or in the Resources\/Educator Resources<\/a> page for you to download.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n Take the blank template and save it for next year.\u00a0 Then fill out one for this year.\u00a0 Look at a calendar and on row 4 enter the month and on row 5 enter the starting day of each week in the school year.\u00a0 so each column numbered 1 through 36 will correspond to a week in your school year.\u00a0 In row 7 you see the green expected set\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>to be passed by the end of that week.\u00a0 At the end of week 1 we expect that students will have at least passed Set A.\u00a0 \u00a0By the end of week 2 they should have passed Set C to be on pace to finish two operations in a year.<\/p>\n Entering student names.<\/strong>\u00a0 Starting in row 10 you enter the student names in column B.\u00a0 This class only has ten students, but I’m guessing yours probably has more!\u00a0 \u00a0Cool thing about excel is you only have to enter those names once.\u00a0 And if you’re really good you can freeze that column so you can easily see it later in the year.<\/p>\n Entering weekly information.<\/strong>\u00a0 Each week grab all the student folders and for each student enter the highest set they have passed.\u00a0 You can see that from the Rocket Chart on the outside of the folder, so you don’t even have to open the folders.\u00a0 If the letter they have passed is equal or higher than the green set expected<\/span><\/strong> at the top of the column for that week, then put a plus by the letter they have passed.<\/p>\n Look at Alvin Ailey at the top of my class list.\u00a0 Week 1 he had passed both Set A and B, so I wrote “B” in his square.\u00a0 I put a plus because it is exceeds the expected level for the first week.\u00a0 By the second week he had also passed Sets C and D.\u00a0 Only up to “C” is expected,\u00a0 so I wrote “D” and also gave him a plus.\u00a0 Alvin is rocking it!<\/p>\n Look at Cindy Crawford a little further down the class list.\u00a0 Week 1 she had passed Set A, so I wrote an “A” in her she got a plus because she met the expectation.\u00a0 But by week 2 she had only passed Set B, when C is expected to be passed, so I wrote “B” in her square, with a minus indicating she is below expectation.\u00a0 Now I highlighted her square yellow, but that’s kind of advanced so you don’t really have to do that.\u00a0 Only Excel experts can do that, although it really makes it easy to pick out who needs help.\u00a0 We can see that Cindy continues to make slow progress and continues to get minuses.\u00a0 She needs to have extra practice sessions scheduled to finish two operations this year.\u00a0 That pace is fine for one operation per year, but not two.<\/p>\n Look down at Gary Grummond.\u00a0 He didn’t pass even Set A by the end of the first week so I wrote “np” in the first square.\u00a0 He continues to make progress the next few weeks, but not fast enough to complete two operations in a year.<\/p>\n Row 8 Fraction of students meeting expectation<\/strong>.\u00a0 \u00a0 After entering all the students for the week you can see how you are doing overall in your class.\u00a0 Make a fraction with the numerator being the number of students who are meeting the expectation over the denominator of the number of students in the class.\u00a0 You want a high fraction nearer to 1.<\/p>\n If that fraction falls below 70%, meaning more than 30% of your class is not on track, then you should institute a class-wide intervention.\u00a0 Either add an extra practice session each day, or\u00a0see if there is room to improve the quality of practice.\u00a0 See\u00a0these blogs and posts about how to monitor for the quality of practice.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/AimlineExcelRocketMath.png\")
<\/a><\/p>\nHow does the Excel Aimline work?<\/h3>\n