NOTE: To implement, participants must have the PALS Math program materials.
Math Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS): Methods for Grades 2-6 was designed to support students' development and mastery of key calculation concepts and applications aligned with the curriculum for grades 2-6. In PALS Math, students work together to learn key concepts and procedures. Designed to supplement your regular classroom instruction, it will give your students a chance to practice what they are learning with a different look, different questions, and novel problems. This course will cover computational skills in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, as well as key concepts and applications across grades 2-6, including area and perimeter, fractions, money, ratios, probability, and more. Repeated scientific evaluations of PALS Math indicate that high-achieving, average-achieving, and low-achieving students, as well as students with disabilities, make more progress in PALS classrooms than in non-PALS classrooms.
- develop a classroom routine that increases your students' opportunities to respond and receive immediate corrective feedback.
- share the research supporting this practice across grade levels.
- confidently implement PALS in your classroom to support students' growth.
- intentionally pair your students for PALS Math using available data.
- train students in how to provide peer-mediated support.
- Grades 2-6 Educators
- Interventionists/Specialists
- Special Educators
- Paraprofessionals
- Administrators
- Instructional Coaches
- Self-Paced
- 3 PLUs