Florida enVision B.E.S.T. A|G|A

Florida enVision® B.E.S.T. A|G|A combines problem-based learning and visual learning to deepen students’ conceptual understanding. Florida enVision® B.E.S.T. A|G|A is used by classrooms across Florida. Let’s Investigate! lessons provide students with opportunities to take ownership of deeper exploration into problem-based learning.

Florida enVision® B.E.S.T. A|G|A packs a unique one-two punch. Lessons start with Problem-Based Learning (PBL), where students must think critically about a real-world math problem, evaluate options, collaborate, and present solutions. Visual Learning throughout the lesson helps to solidify the underlying math concepts. It’s the best way to help kids better understand math ideas.

The program is made up of the following program components:

• Florida Teacher’s Edition – Available in digital or print, the Teacher’s Edition includes wrap-around pages that provide direct instruction and teaching suggestions to engage students. The Interactive Teacher’s Edition online features annotation models and downloadable lesson resources.
• Florida Student Edition – Interactive Student Edition—available in digital or print write-in format.
• Florida Student Companion – A write-in student worktext that actively engages students with classroom or home lessons and fosters conceptual understanding. This workbook helps students solidify their understanding and record their thoughts, strategies, and understanding
• Florida enVision B.E.S.T. A|G|A Digital – enVision digital courseware on Savvas Realize® includes robust digital tools that give teachers flexibility to use a digital, print, or blended format in their classrooms. Teachers can customize the program to rearrange content, upload their own content, add links to online media, and edit resources and assessments. All program resources, including personalized practice, remediation, and assessments are available in one location for easy lesson planning and presentation.

Students will use technology to interact with text and activities, and they can write directly in their digital Student Edition to make interaction with text more meaningful. Students will engage in activities that will inspire conceptual understanding, classroom discourse, and build their mathematical thinking skills, while learning to formulate and defend their own opinions.

The learning model in the enVision program—problem-based learning, visual learning, and data-driven differentiated instruction—has been researched and verified as effective. Core instruction used for every lesson is effective for developing conceptual understanding.

Florida enVision® B.E.S.T. A|G|A features comprehensive differentiated instruction and intervention support to allow access for all students. The program’s balanced instructional model provides appropriate scaffolding, differentiation, intervention, and support for a broad range of learners, and is designed to facilitate conceptual understanding of mathematics for students at a range of learning levels.

Comprehensive, built-in differentiation resources support all levels of learners, including those with learning disabilities and ELLs, through personalized, adaptive learning.

The program meets various student needs and provides Response to Intervention (RtI) during each lesson, at the end of each lesson, at the end of each Topic, and at any time as indicated in the Teacher’s Edition. A description of RtI tiered instructional resources for the program is included in the Teacher’s Program Overview for each grade. The following are examples of tiered instructional support found online for each lesson.

Tier 1 ongoing Intervention includes the following resources that can be used during the lesson:

• Prevent Misconceptions. During the Understand & Apply, a remediation strategy is included to address a common misconception about the lesson concept.
• Error Intervention (If... Then...). During Practice & Problem Solving, error intervention identifies a common error and provides strategies for remediation 
• Reteaching Set. This set is provided before independent practice to develop understanding prior to practice.
• MathXL® for School: Practice & Problem Solving, during the lesson, includes personalized practice for the Practice & Problem Solving portion of the lesson, along with Additional Practice or Enrichment; auto‐scored with on‐screen help, including Help Me Solve This and View an Example tools, tutorial videos, Math Tools, and one‐click animated glossary access.

Tier 2 strategic intervention includes the following resources that can be used at the end of the Lesson:

• Intervention Activity. This supports teachers working with small groups of struggling students.
• Reteach to Build Understanding. This provides guided reteaching as a follow‐up to the intervention activity.

Tier 3 intensive intervention instruction is delivered daily outside of the core math instruction, often in a one‐to‐one situation. Skills Review & Practice scaffolded instruction can be used for this purpose, for example.

• Variety of Instructional Strategies
• Multisensory instruction is provided in online Explore & Reason/Model & Discuss/Critique & Explain activities that include audio and visual learning
• Virtual Nerd® videos, interactive MathXL for School: Practice & Problem Solving, Additional Practice, Mixed Review, Reteach to Build Understanding, and Enrichment, online digital math tools, and embedded Desmos® interactivities.

Florida enVision® B.E.S.T. A|G|A digital courseware on Savvas Realize® includes robust digital tools that give teachers the flexibility to use a digital, print, or blended format in their classrooms. Teachers can customize the program to rearrange content, upload their own content, add links to online media, and edit resources and assessments. Program resources, personalized practice, remediation, and assessments are available in one location for easy lesson planning and presentation. Contact your Savvas representative to request a demo account.

Integration of Desmos into Savvas Realize® offers a groundbreaking interactive experience designed to foster conceptual understanding through highly visual interactives that bring mathematical concepts to life. Embedded interactives powered by Desmos and animated examples engage students and deepen conceptual understanding. Allowing students to manipulate data and see an immediate effect on graphs, number lines, etc. clarifies concepts as students are learning new content. Unique to Florida enVision® B.E.S.T. A|G|A , the Desmos best-in-class graphing calculator and brand new geometry tools are available to middle and high school enVision students anytime, anywhere, both online and offline through Savvas Realize.