ST Math

[Anonymous]

Is it required for all schools? Does any parent find it useful? I don't, just checking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is it required for all schools? Does any parent find it useful? I don't, just checking.

No it is not required. I worked at a charter where the kids LOVED it.

[Anonymous]

My kid loves JiJi.

[Anonymous]

It's required at my school. My kid liked it in kindergarten, but now that he's in 3rd grade and ST math is still focusing on place value, he's bored. And the jiji animation makes even easy work take too long.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's required at my school. My kid liked it in kindergarten, but now that he's in 3rd grade and ST math is still focusing on place value, he's bored. And the jiji animation makes even easy work take too long.

This sounds like my school. It is now required for h.w. as part of math grade. Student does not like it. It takes forever to finish one lesson and doesn't look like meaningful work.

[Anonymous]

DCPS teacher, I hate it. It does not allow differentiation. The smart kids learn how to game GiGi and the lessons make everyone work on the same skill whether they already know the skills.

[Anonymous]

my kid likes it but it looks pretty dumb to me. not sure what he's learning. I am an educational technology skeptic though

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DCPS teacher, I hate it. It does not allow differentiation. The smart kids learn how to game GiGi and the lessons make everyone work on the same skill whether they already know the skills.

My child's 3rd grade teacher is allowing him to do 4th grade ST math. I'm enormously grateful for her attempt at differentiation, but worry about how much worse it will be next year when he has to do it a second time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is it required for all schools? Does any parent find it useful? I don't, just checking.

No, only the ones that purchase it. Title I schools may be required.

As a teacher I see the usefulness. It does well scaffolding and I can make explicit connections to my lessons. Last year I was just introducing mean median and mode and one of my struggling students proudly explained it and said she learned it on ST Math. Some kids just click through and it never sticks, but for many of my students it has helped with conceptual understanding.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCPS teacher, I hate it. It does not allow differentiation. The smart kids learn how to game GiGi and the lessons make everyone work on the same skill whether they already know the skills.

My child's 3rd grade teacher is allowing him to do 4th grade ST math. I'm enormously grateful for her attempt at differentiation, but worry about how much worse it will be next year when he has to do it a second time.

Weird. Thought it was attached to the child's student number and therefore they cannot go up or down a grade.

[Anonymous]

Ugh. My youngest is great at math but hated that program. Very clicky interface that caused him to have to repeat things constantly even when he knew it. If I had to hear him scream one more time "That's NOT what I clicked!!!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCPS teacher, I hate it. It does not allow differentiation. The smart kids learn how to game GiGi and the lessons make everyone work on the same skill whether they already know the skills.

My child's 3rd grade teacher is allowing him to do 4th grade ST math. I'm enormously grateful for her attempt at differentiation, but worry about how much worse it will be next year when he has to do it a second time.

Weird. Thought it was attached to the child's student number and therefore they cannot go up or down a grade.

It automatically loads the kids into their homerooms but they can easily be moved forward or back.

[Anonymous]

It doesn't actually explain anything. I have seen kids click until they get a correct answer. And sometimes if you accidentally click the wrong thing, you have to start over.

[Anonymous]

Someone must be getting a kickback, because it's a program that has no research support at all in improving math achievement. It does nothing to improve mathematical thinking and it's lazy teaching, frankly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Someone must be getting a kickback, because it's a program that has no research support at all in improving math achievement. It does nothing to improve mathematical thinking and it's lazy teaching, frankly.

I agree.