A family friend of mine sent me an email about this math resource at www.tenmarks.com. I am going to be using this with my blog as a way to check how students are progressing in math and integrating technology. This is free for teachers, and is aligned with State and Common Core Standards. Yay! You type in the names of your students, select the grade level, and then create a label for your class. This allows you to group students as a whole group, or you can differentiate and group students based on skills where they need to spend more time.
I can assign different tasks for students to do, what topic of math to focus on, a subtopic if there is on, and change the number of questions, etc. It grades it for you as the student log on and complete the assignment. I can log on and see the report and what each individual students missed.
One thing I wish it would allow is for you to see the assignment before any students takes it. I haven't been able to find if they have that available. It does however, show you an example question for each strand and topic. You can choose 3 albums (strands/ topic areas) from other grades to include on your page for differentiation purposes. This is great for math centers where students who are on grade level can be working on third grade material, students that need enrichment could be working on upper grades material, and students that need extra help can be working on a lower grades material. They would all be on the same sight and working on the same skill, just differing levels. This would allow the students to work on their level while still working on the same skill.
I think that having this set up in a classroom would be great because each student would be actively engaged in the correct math content they need to be doing. Teachers will also still be available for assistance as well. Is the program also available at home for students to continue practicing or developing skills?
ReplyDeleteAs long as students have access to the Internet, they should be able to use this resource at home as well. However, I would question if that would be best. For students that need extra practice, that's fine. I would wonder if they would get too far ahead on their own though. I want a chance to monitor what they are doing and really making sure THEY are the ones doing the work.
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