One session lasts approximately 8-10 minutes. My students do one session every day. I just love the format of this program.
If a student does not answer the math fact within the allowed time, the answer will faintly appear as you see below allowing the student to answer the math correctly. This helps the student to learn the fact. The keypad to the right can be hidden for students that prefer to use the computer keyboard to answer.
If students key in an incorrect answer, the incorrect answer will show as wrong, as well as the correct answer for the student to enter.
Students can see the ones they've mastered in green and the ones they will be working on next in gray.
In the Race the Teacher session, targeted facts are repeated over and over each time they are answered incorrectly, providing a great amount of repetition for your students.
Students receive feedback throughout their session!
And yes, this free site also provides simple "to the point" class or individual reports. Navigation through the site, printing reports and changing students' program is super quick and easy!
On the individual student report I can see exactly which facts my student needs more practice on. I can see the ones correct, incorrect, and the facts they were timed out on.
Students can also do XtraMath at home and parents can monitor the reports too!
I have Scholastic FASTT MATH available at my school and my students and I still prefer to use this free site! I love the repetition it provides, the teaching of each fact, the reports, the student feedback, the parent involvement, and the simple navigation!!!
Check out XtraMath for your classroom here!
Hi Traci,
ReplyDeleteWe use Xtra Math also, and my kiddos love it as well. I haven't pulled the reports you spoke of, but now I will. Thanks ! Our principal just bought us a trial subscription to Sumdog, another math site, and I've just begun trying it out. Like Xtra Math, students work at their pace. P.S. I love your blog colors!
Susan
1st Grade Grapevine
Thanks for the wonderful piece of post about maths teaching because, now-a-days, the present generation students are showing more interest to be get indulged in suing the social media websites such as: facebook, pinterest, twitter, whatsapp and instagram. whereas, they are getting all their writing works to be completed with the help of online research writing assistance websites as there has been more number of online writing service websites are available, they are approaching any one writing service websites as per their desire. So, now this post will be really helpful for the students to develop their maths knowledge and interest towards this subject.
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