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As of the fall of 2024, CMCSS has added ExploreLearning's Reflex and Frax tools to all elementary schools' resources. Reflex builds students' addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division fluency skills. Frax teaches fraction concepts, so students can interpret, represent, compare, order, and estimate with fractions. Both K-5 students and teachers will access these tools through Classlink.
What are Reflex and Frax?
What are Reflex and Frax?
Reflex - Student Screen
Reflex and Frax are online math programs from ExploreLearning. Each has its own focus.
Reflex - Building math fact fluency for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division in students is the goal of Reflex.
Frax - Understanding fractions at a conceptual level is Frax's goal.
Frax - Student Screen
All Students and Classes are added nightly through a PowerSchool Sync.
How to Access Reflex and Frax
How to Access Reflex and Frax
Both Reflex and Frax are accessible from the Reflex Button in ClassLink.
In Google Chrome, access Classlink: https://launchpad.classlink.com/cmcss.
Select the Reflex Math (LTI) tile.
1st Time Accessing Either Reflex or Frax
1st Time Accessing Either Reflex or Frax
The 1st time that you access either Reflex or Frax will be different than return visits.
On the 1st Visit, you will come to a screen that urges you to create a login username and password just for these 2 programs.
It is recommended to use your firstname.lastname as the username and an easy to remember password for Reflex and Frax.
Return Visits to Reflex and Frax
Return Visits to Reflex and Frax
During return visits to Reflex and Frax, you will go directly to the Account Home page. Here you can access students and their progress data through...
Reflex
Frax
Individual Classes
Reflex - Assigning Student Work
Reflex - Assigning Student Work
Teachers MUST assign work to students for students to access Reflex and Frax.
After clicking the "Assign Reflex to Students" button, choose a Math class from the drop-down menu. Assignments can be made for both Reflex and Frax. This can be done on the individual student level or ,at the bottom of the screen, as a whole class.
Reflex Assignment Options
Reflex Assignment Options
Reflex has 3 options .
Adding & Subtracting to 10
Multiplying & Dividing to 10
Multiplying & Dividing to 12.
Any of these can be assigned to students.
Frax only has one option that can be chosen, unless Sector 1 has been completed students.
Frax Assignment Options
Frax Assignment Options
Reflex - Student View
Reflex - Student View
Once students have initially logged in, They will choose between Reflex and Frax.
When choosing Reflex, students will Start their activities. Activities include...
Crabby's Fact Fair - Pre-Assessment for Fact Knowledge
Coaching - Fact Fluency Practice
Fluency Development Games - Challenge games to build automaticity
Tokens - As students use Reflex, they earn tokens that can be used to buy in-game rewards. Students earn tokens for Crabby’s Fact Fair, Coaching, fluency games, and for becoming fluent with a new fact or family.
Students can spend their tokens in the Reflex Store, on Reflex Island. Be sure your students realize that the store does not “open” until they receive the Green Light, meaning that they have completed their “Daily Usage Requirement” for that day.
Reflex - Student Data Reports
Reflex - Student Data Reports
Reflex has 4 basic reports...
Group Status - It list the students in the group along with their assignment, initial assessment status, fact fluency percent mastery, fluency gain in the past 7 days, usage level in past 7 days, and last login date.
Usage Summary - This shows a doughnut chart relating weekly usage and average weekly fact gain.
Milestones - This report focuses on students' achievements that are not standard-based, but are points of celebration. Certificates can be printed from the individual version of this report.
Fluency Growth - Shown in bar graphs, pie charts, and line graphs, this report shows the class's aggregate growth from starting fluency to current fluency.
Additional Reflex Tools
Additional Reflex Tools
Student Demo launches a copy to model for students.
Teacher Resources contains 2 parts - Teacher Guide, a detailed PDF, and Reflex Educator Hub, webpage with how-to's and videos.
Help button
Mini Waffle button swaps between Reflex and Frax.
In the Green bar, there are tabs to switch between Class Reports or Individual Reports.
Student Assignments
Student Assignments
Teachers MUST assign work to students for students to access Reflex and Frax.
Frax - Student Data Reports
Frax - Student Data Reports
Select the View Reports tab.
Select Class Reports.
You can view four reports.
Group Status report: view data in real time.
Progress report: Group progress can be tracked as a donut graph or in a table.
Understandings report: The Understandings chart shows the standards that are necessary for learning fractions.
Milestones report: The milestones are for the number of missions completed, number of problems solved, and the number of tokens earned.
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