Organizing Math Intervention Papers: A System for Fluid Groups

Organizing math intervention papers is no easy task.

Especially when our groups are fluid with ever-changing students!

Whether you are a math interventionist, a math coach, or a classroom teacher working with small groups, you will love this simple system for organizing math intervention papers.

Start with Plastic Pockets

The first part of the system features these plastic pockets to store all of our math intervention papers, from scaffolded worksheets, to math mats, to lesson plans:

It sounds so simple, but they really do save a great deal of time.

Each pocket holds LOTS of paper, so you can run off entire sets for your students.

The pockets completely eliminate the need for paperclips, which saves so much time when organizing papers!

There are actually two pockets on either side, which is so helpful in separating activities (or gathering completed papers at the end of a session):

And it gets better.

You can take the pockets to the photocopier and organize your small math group papers as soon as they are printed for instant organization!

Use Magnetic File Holders to Organize Each Group

I could go on forever about how great the plastic pockets are for organizing math intervention papers.

But they can also pile up quickly and will need a place to be stored.

I use these magnetic file holders, one for each math group.

The folders can hold many plastic pockets at once and are the perfect way to avoid cluttering up desks, tables, and drawers.

They make it easy to organize several math intervention activities for a group:

They can also hold other materials you’d like to use for your math lesson (we use highlighters a LOT for rounding to the nearest 10 and rounding to the nearest 100):

The pockets are also perfect for storing math mats and multiples charts for groups:

And they can travel with you, should you need to bring activities to another classroom.

Easy to Edit Math Group Labels

The final piece of this system features labels for our math intervention group labels:

And here’s the key part of the system…

Since our math intervention groups are naturally fluid with students joining (and leaving!) for different concepts, I like to keep the labels fluid as well.

I print each one on cardstock and laminate to create an erasable surface.

Then I use a wet erase marker to record student names (anyone else remember these from your childhood learning on overhead projectors?).

The labels can then be “edited” with new group names, erased with just a bit of water:

Free Labels to Get Started Now

Would you like to get started with this system? I’m sharing a free set of the math intervention group labels, along with other math treats in the Free Resource Collection.

Click below for your free (editable!) set: