Ramp-Up to Algebra students become better learners, because develop the habits of mind and activity that characterize effective learners.

• Ramp-Up students become active learners whose primary focus is doing mathematics.
• Students work individually, in small groups, and intensively with partners every day.
• Students become problem-solving enthusiasts, rarely satisfied with working a problem just once.
• They become mathematical sleuths who let no error stand, tracking errors down to their source.
• They are vocal learners, routinely discussing and sometimes debating their strategies.
• They are productive and contributive learners, asking questions, offering challenges, and connecting related ideas.
• They are academic communicators, using the proper technical terms and definitions to express their reasoning.
• Students become comfortable with expressing mathematical ideas, even when flawed or half-formed.