Is Brick Math Good for RTI?

by | Mar 7, 2025 | Brickmania Toys

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​We recently had a question from an elementary math teacher in Hawaii who wanted to know if Brick Math was suitable for RTI in grades 1 – 6. It’s a good question, and we thought we’d give everyone more information about using Brick Math for intervention.

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​The program is built on separate math subject matter,  starting with Counting and Cardinality for the earliest learners, and going to Pre-Algebra. You choose the subject(s) that your students are working on. You can go straight through a lesson book from start to finish, or begin anywhere in the lesson book that you choose based on what your students already know. It’s a modular kind of program and very flexible.

​​The brick sets are designed to work for all the subjects in the program. They can be used by one individual student or shared between two students.

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​Teachers often tell us that Brick Math has worked well in an intervention setting because it presents the math in a different way than the students have seen it before. It’s tactile, and it engages students first because they enjoy working with the bricks, but also because it requires them to translate the 3-D brick models to 2-D drawings and then into words.

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​Brick Math Teacher Editions are the lesson books that the teacher uses. The Student Editions are the workbooks that students write in to record their math work, as well as completing chapter assessments. They also include a chart to track students’ progress toward mastery, which is useful for teachers who see RTI students regularly.
The Brick Math curriculum is divided into 13 separate content areas: 
Counting, Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, Basic Fractions, Basic Measurement, Fraction Multiplication, Fraction Division, Advanced Measurement and Geometry, Decimals, Data and Statistics, and Pre-Algebra. 

Students can start anywhere in the curriculum. Brick Math can be used as a complete math curriculum or brought in as a supplement to help students who aren’t having math success with other programs. Check BrickMath.com to learn more!

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