Mathseeds lessons – The Core of the Program
Mathseeds lesson teach core skills with a motivating cycle of teaching and guided practice that actively rewards progress.
Mathseeds lessons begin with a focused step-by-step demonstration of a core math skill.
Students apply each skill to a range of guided practice activities.
- Engaging animated lessons require frequent student responses.
- Immediate feedback ensures student success.
- A range of supporting practice activities build deep conceptual knowledge.
1 Step–by–step demonstrations
Highly effective programs include explicit instruction, exploration, and immediate feedback to engage active learners.
- Funny, playful characters guide learners through the program.
- Complex skills are broken into smaller instructional units.
- Guided practice encourages students to roll up their sleeves and succeed.
2 A wide range of practice activities
Every lesson includes a wide range of short practice activities that reinforce skills through a variety of interesting formats.
- Students build deeper knowledge and synthesize skills.
- Short, brisk activities keeps students engaged and on task.
- Self-paced activities allow students to review, revise, and practice skills.
- Immediate affirmative and corrective feedback ensures student success.
3 Rewarding lessons that students really enjoy
Multi-layered reward system motivates students to keep making progress.
- Students earn golden acorn rewards for every activity that they complete.
- Lesson completion rewarded with the hatching of a new online pet.
- Golden acorns can be traded for games, avatar items, and treehouse decorations.
- Lessons build on a logical progression of skills.
4 Student progress tracking
Sequential map-based format provides powerful visual proof of student progress.
- The placement test places each student at the right level.
- Cumulative assessment charted to standards.
- Built-in assessment with End-of-Map Assessments and Driving Tests.
- Every student makes progress.
5 Useful feedback
Lessons fully support students and provide teachers with useful feedback
- A powerful learning cycle of student–centric learning as well as guided and supported practice ensures student mastery
- Timely feedback and rewards help motivate learners and inform teachers.
- Teacher dashboard reports data in a variety of useful, actionable formats.
“ I love that it caters to each child's needs. It takes a lot for a classroom teacher to design lessons for each individual child, but Mathseeds does it for me!”
