As the school year winds down, it’s time to start thinking about how to support your math intervention students as they transition into next year. You’ve built trust, made progress, and helped your students grow—and now it’s time to ensure that growth continues, even after your formal intervention time ends.
Whether you’re a math interventionist or classroom teacher supporting struggling math students, these end-of-year strategies will help you wrap up intentionally and prevent learning loss over the summer.
Here are three simple ways to set your math intervention students up for success—both now and in the year ahead.
1. Pass Along What Matters
The most powerful way you can support your intervention students in the long term isn’t what happens in your final sessions together—it’s how you bridge this school year into the next.
We can’t control what happens over the summer (though we’ll get to some tools that can help!), but we can ensure that the progress your students made doesn’t get lost in the shuffle. A smooth handoff is one of the best ways you can ensure continued success.
When you’re wrapping up your intervention caseload, consider sharing:
- Any progress monitoring data you’ve been collecting
- A quick summary of what works well for each student (strategies, routines, or tools)
- Other useful insights—math confidence, pacing needs, independence, or even just a heads-up about what motivates them
Even a short paragraph per student can make a huge difference for the teacher picking things up in the fall.
➡️ Need a little guidance on how to wrap up your year with clarity and intention? This post will help:
Your End of the Year Math Intervention Plan
2. Give Families Tools to Keep the Momentum Going
We all know about the summer slide—but sending home a thick packet of worksheets isn’t the answer.
Instead, consider printing and sending home 1–2 game-based fluency activities your students already know and love. These no-prep games can make math feel fun and doable over the summer months—and that can help students return in the fall with confidence intact.
🧩 I recommend sending home a few options from my No-Prep Fact Fluency Games bundle, which includes addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division:
👉 Grab the All Operations Bundle Here
Just print, add a quick note for families, and you’re good to go.
3. Help Families See Math in Everyday Life
Math doesn’t have to be a worksheet or a flashcard. It’s in the lemonade stand your student runs in July… in the trip to the grocery store… in the road trip you hear them talking about on the last day of school.
You can help your students and their families keep math alive over the summer by sharing a few fun, real-world ideas like:
- 🍋 Run a lemonade stand (practice money, pricing, and making change)
- 🚗 Plan a family outing (elapsed time, budgeting, mileage)
- 🧺 Fold laundry and talk about sorting, arrays, or multiplication
- 🛒 Compare prices and estimate totals at the grocery store
- 🧁 Bake together using fractions and measurement
When families realize they don’t need to “teach math” to reinforce math, it opens the door to small, meaningful learning moments all summer long.
Send Home a One-Page Parent Guide
Want to make it super easy? I’ve put together a simple, printable handout you can send home with your intervention students. It includes:
- A short note to families
- 2 easy math games to play at home
- 5 real-world ways to spot math in everyday life
📩 [Click here to download the free printable handout for families.]
You’ve Done the Hard Part. Now Let It Stick.
You’ve supported your students in big ways this year. Wrapping up your time together with intention—by sharing the right information, sending home a game or two, and reminding families how to keep math visible—can help that growth stick long after they leave your group.
You don’t need to do more. Just take a few small, thoughtful steps to carry the momentum forward.
