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Pros: Vast skill list and mixed review helps make "I forgot" a thing of the past.
Cons: Games are basic; without explanations, kids must depend on teachers to relearn forgotten material.
Bottom Line: Since there's little help offered, it's best used for in-class practice to see how much students remember.
Get More Math's message tool is a terrific vehicle to praise students for their hard work by sending messages of encouragement, or even to reward students with extra game credits to promote perseverance. The flexibility to assign point values and set daily goals is great. If teachers can assign low points to skills and create a short practice set, it can be used as a warm-up or pretest. Assign point values a bit higher in a practice set to encourage in-class practice or use fewer questions with even greater points as a ticket out to quickly see who has mastered the day's lesson. As there isn't a hint or help feature, students should be assigned work only after the lesson has been taught; teachers should be cautious about assigning a practice set or mixed review as homework.
Get More Math is an adaptive practice program that attempts to keeps skills fresh. Teachers can view and assign work from a comprehensive skills library covering grades four through algebra and geometry. In the Assigned Work mode, students are challenged to answer multiple-choice and constructed-response questions while they work toward the daily goal and earn points. Students can use the "raise your hand" function, and, once notified on the dashboard, a teacher can invite a student to join for help -- or send off a message that gives a student a little nudge.
Students continue to earn points after the teacher has clicked the class over into Mixed Review mode. Students must prove they've retained previously taught content to earn their points for game credits. Teachers can also view the time since the last correct answer was given -- as well as the current question for each student -- and easily decide when to intervene.
Get More Math's winning feature is the Mixed Review section. Students won't be able to forget material if regularly assigned in Mixed Review to practice current topics as well as review old skills. But be warned: If students haven't yet mastered a topic, this activity shouldn't be used as-is without a teacher present to help reteach and intervene when students get stuck.
Get More Math covers a wide variety of skills and offers several different question types, so teachers don't have to search out multiple resources for mainstream kids. The game credits are a good carrot, and the games provide healthy brain breaks, but because they're fairly basic, the games won't necessarily drive student engagement. Accessibility items for kids with language or vision needs aren't present.
Learning Rating
This program is amazing!
Get More Math is a spiraling program that helps all student grow throughout the school year. I have seen huge confident boosts in my students because they are able to practice concepts until they reach mastery. This program is amazing!
I absolutely love this teaching tool. Our 5th grade students completed over 222,000 extra math questions using this program. GMM allows teachers to turn on certain standards or TEKS as they teach concepts throughout the year. This program spirals learned concepts throughout the school year so students don't "forget" the things they learned at the beginning of the school year. As the end of the school year approached, we didn't have to go back and review old concepts. Everything was fresh as the day it was taught.
If students start to struggle with a question, they have a hand button they can push and this will go directly to the teachers computer. I am able to see the exact question the student is struggling with. I am able to send them a message directly to their screen or I can get up and go help them. While they are waiting, they can continue working on different questions. No just sitting and waiting on the teacher to show up...huge bonus.
Students are also able to earn points as they answer questions correctly. After earning points, they earn game credits that allow them to play a short game and then back to work they go. Teachers can limit the amount of game choices as well so students aren't wasting time. Students can only roll over three game credits a day. No collecting credits and then spending a day of playing games all class.
My math students had a huge success with GMM this past year. The 5th graders at my school had 61% mastery on the Texas STAAR this year. We were second highest in the district for mastery.
This program also allows you to differentiate. I am able to make different groups for students with different abilities. I had sped students that were working on the same program at their level. To everyone in the room, all students were working on the same thing. They had no idea that students around them were on lower or higher level concepts. ALL students are able to use this program and feel successful. Daily goals can be set as well. I would set an obtainable goal each day and as kids reached their goal, I would give them classroom cash.
My students enjoyed this program and I am over the moon that my PTO is willing to pay for it again this year.
I had a student that did not pass the 3rd or 4th grade STAAR test, but did pass the 5th grade STAAR. I think this program played a huge part in her success because she was able to practice skills over and over again until she became confident in her knowledge.
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