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Gonsalves, Philip
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Kravin, Drew
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Strategic and Intensive Mathematics Initiative - Phase 2 (SIMI-2)

The Strategic and Intensive Mathematics Initiative is a partnership among:

  • Alameda County Office of Education Educational Services Division
  • Alameda County Office of Education Student Programs and Services Division
  • Hayward Unified School District
  • Alameda Unified School District
  • California State University East Bay

SIMI-2 provides summer institutes and classroom coaching support for Grade 3 through 7, and is funded by a grant from the California Mathematics and Science Partnership of the California Department of Education. It is a replication of the initial SIMI grant, which supported Grade 5 through Algebra I in the same partnership of districts.

  Resources for Teachers


Grade 3:

Addition Using Number Lines and Partial Sums

Addition Using Decomposition

Subtraction With Regrouping

Ordering Numbers

Comparing Numbers to 10,000

Prime Numbers - "Flying Primes"

Grade 4:

Subtracting Large Numbers

Find Factors of a Number

Number Lines with Fractions

Placing Fractions on a Number Line

Two-Digit by Two-Digit Multiplication

Area of Complex Figures

Least Common Multiple

Grade 5:

Identifying GCF

Prime and Composite Numbers

Prime Factorization & Exponents

Converting Improper Fractions to Mixed Numbers

Multiplying Whole Numbers and Fractions

Multiplying Fractions

Introduction to Decimals

Adding Decimals

Converting Decimals to Fractions

Introduction to Division with Multi-Digit Divisors

Adding Integers

Adding Integers with Number Lines

Subtracting Integers

Area of Triangles

Area of Parallelograms

Grade 6:

Ordering Fractions & Decimals

Ordering Integers on a Number Line

Subtracting Mixed Numbers with Regrouping