MATHia
"How is never as important as why."
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A child's math achievement is a strong predictor of future school + career success!
Based on 20+ years of cognitive science research, Carnegie Learning’s MATHia software has shown improvements in students’ standardized test scores and problem-solving skills. The AI-driven personalization helps address individual learning gaps more effectively than traditional methods. MATHia is an AI-powered, one-to-one intelligent math coaching platform offering features such as adaptive personalized learning, interactive lessons, human-like coaching, instant feedback, animations, assistive tools, worked examples, progress meters, embedded assessments, real-time data, predictive analytics, and reporting.
MATHia involves a lot of reading! Research has long linked strong reading skills with improved math achievement—which may seem obvious when it comes to typical math tasks like understanding directions on a test, or parsing word problems, but literacy skills also support and deepen math understanding in unique and powerful ways.
Math is about relationships, patterns, and language. Using continuous data to improve teaching & learning math, the timeline for concept mastery varies from student to student. Many students need multiple exposures over time to new math concepts and skills, before showing mastery.
Teaching is an 'art' (subjective) and a 'science' (objective), so my teacher-created assignments is the 'art,' while MATHia is the 'science' that serves as both an assessment & reteaching tool! MATHia is used for personalized learning by allowing students to learn at their own pace through competency-based progression. Each student gets the support (i.e. hints) to help master the skills.
Since students are being assessed on what they were previously taught, MATHia is effective for “retrieval practice” or “test-enhanced learning,” which is the strategy of using recall for long-term retention. Math is not a spectator sport, so students learn math by applying math in their everyday lives. By relying on multiple sensory pathways (multimodal), this encodes learning material more effectively in the minds of students — leading to more durable memories.
Data is used to identify skill gaps, monitor student engagement, reinforce content knowledge, error analysis, understand student thinking, and collaborate with parents. This is why teachers need to consistently use technology to gather multiple data points about their students’ real-time progress and performance, in order, to adapt lessons to enhance students' learning journey!
In today's economy, math (logical thinking/ability to identify patterns), technology, and innovation are more crucial than ever!
DoDEA MATHia
Sample Login Information:
1. Navigate to https://www.carnegielearning.com/sample-center/
2. Click "Sign in"
3. Enter USERNAME: DoDEAResource
4. Enter PASSWORD: longlivemath
5. Click "Sign In"
6. Click "View Software" (at the top right)
7. Click "Try MATHia"
MATHia progress tracker.pdfResearch shows that regular practice improves learning and retention.
Timely corrective feedback for personalized instruction, when paired with praise for student effort, fosters independence, a love of learning, and improved outcomes.
Clear communication & culture of data transparency are vital to boosting academic performance, creating persistence, and providing actionable student-specific data.
Adding game elements to digital learning technology boosts student engagement, leading to better performance outcome by quantifying skill mastery through game-based learning (GBL).
MATHia allows for both criterion-referenced grading (based on standards) as well as self-referenced grading (through the progress tracker).
Criterion-referenced grading is also referred to as absolute standards grading. Grades are assigned by comparing a student’s performance to a defined set of standards to be achieved, objectives to be learned, or knowledge to be acquired. Self-referenced grading framework (also called growth-based grading), grades are assigned by comparing students’ performance with their own past performance. That way, we reap both benefits: the motivational value of self-referencing and the interpretability of criterion-referenced grades.
Data_Guide_Empowering_K12_Schools_Through_Data_Readiness_-_Final.pdf
Pros
MATHia is a human-like coaching and feedback through continuous monitoring and hints
It adapts to students’ performance for differentiated instruction and predictive analytics
It allows students to progress at their own pace for the purpose of mastery learning, based on two decades of neuroscience research
It provides a variety of questions for data collection, formative assessment, and reporting
It aligns with the prescribed curriculum and textbook to offer a blended learning experience, while offering assistive technology, such as text-to-speech and decoding tools
Cons
MATHia is not free, so it must be purchased by schools or districts
It may be frustrating for students who need faster pacing or more flexibility because mastery is required before progression
It is text-heavy lessons, which can be challenging for struggling readers
It has no remediation or opportunity to make corrections before the system scores performance, while not strongly supporting curiosity or open-ended exploration
It has limited number of hints before the answer is revealed, and some students and teachers feel the hints are not always helpful or clear enough.
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