Math Reading Strategies & Supports

The following are reading strategies and supports that people skilled mathematics use to help make sense of mathematics texts.

• Apply prior knowledge
• Make a table

1. Create an input/output table
2. Create a domain/range table

• Reread
• Ask a peer
• Underline key information
• Draw a star next to questions
• Work on "mini" problems
• Make a list
• Go back in the text to find examples
• Draw a picture