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Anonymous wrote:Pushed through last night- about a hour and a half of petals, the last portion made you count the individual ones and two wrong and you restart. Not great at midnight. After petals, there are Blocks!!! WTF, back to bob the builder I guess. Well, one level (three sections of blocks later) and I got to the other side and - MORE DAMN PETALS!

This app is supposed to last through the entire school year. That means kids can't just breeze through concepts or they would be running into calculus by January.

But it is starting all the kids in lesson 1 of first grade.

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Anonymous wrote:Pushed through last night- about a hour and a half of petals, the last portion made you count the individual ones and two wrong and you restart. Not great at midnight. After petals, there are Blocks!!! WTF, back to bob the builder I guess. Well, one level (three sections of blocks later) and I got to the other side and - MORE DAMN PETALS!

This app is supposed to last through the entire school year. That means kids can't just breeze through concepts or they would be running into calculus by January.

boring them until they quit out of frustration doesn't seem like the optimal way of preventing a third grader from advancing too far

Anonymous wrote:Pushed through last night- about a hour and a half of petals, the last portion made you count the individual ones and two wrong and you restart. Not great at midnight. After petals, there are Blocks!!! WTF, back to bob the builder I guess. Well, one level (three sections of blocks later) and I got to the other side and - MORE DAMN PETALS!

This app is supposed to last through the entire school year. That means kids can't just breeze through concepts or they would be running into calculus by January.

Pushed through last night- about a hour and a half of petals, the last portion made you count the individual ones and two wrong and you restart. Not great at midnight. After petals, there are Blocks!!! WTF, back to bob the builder I guess. Well, one level (three sections of blocks later) and I got to the other side and - MORE DAMN PETALS!

Everyone needs to complain at Back to School and also email the teacher and cc the principal. Instructional Services picks this crap. Not teachers. Put your kid on Khan. Prodigy was crap and so was iReady.

I want to kick that little penguin off his iceberg and watch him drown.

Anonymous wrote:Why is everything on an app? Are teachers not expected to lesson plan anymore? Or grade work? How kids retain ANYTHING they learn on an app is beyond me. Mine sure don't.

But oddly enough, they can probably tell you quite a bit about Roblox or Fortnite.

Anonymous wrote:Why is everything on an app? Are teachers not expected to lesson plan anymore? Or grade work? How kids retain ANYTHING they learn on an app is beyond me. Mine sure don't.

ST Math is a supplement. I am still teaching and giving assignments.

Anonymous wrote:Why is everything on an app? Are teachers not expected to lesson plan anymore? Or grade work? How kids retain ANYTHING they learn on an app is beyond me. Mine sure don't.

This app is just a math game app, it's not a teaching device, it's only a way to reinforce concepts that the teacher has introduced and a way to occupy time. Remember that FCPS purchased this app as a way to give hybrid students something to do on asynchronous days when they were not in the building. I admit that my younger DS will happily spend more time on a math app than filling out worksheets asynchronously. So I don't think FCPS was wrong in this decision. It's just that things changed.

Why is everything on an app? Are teachers not expected to lesson plan anymore? Or grade work? How kids retain ANYTHING they learn on an app is beyond me. Mine sure don't.

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Anonymous wrote:Teachers can assign content. I assigned content today.

Can you explain this a little more? So you can go into ST Math, and click "subtracting fractions" if that is what your class is learning this week, and then the kids go into ST Math and do subtracting fractions? Because that makes more sense to me.

So each grade level should be assigned a journey. Then the teacher can assign content to the whole class or individual students. Based off our first unit, I assigned an objective. Kids can be assigned objectives of different grade levels as well. There is a place on the login to get assignments the teachers have assigned.

so they didn't tell everyone to start on first grade math, that's just teachers using the default? It doesn't automatically start fourth graders on 4th grade math?

I know there is a pretest cause my students mentioned it when we first logged in. They didn’t mention if the content was too easy like place value.

Did you ask?

the pretest for place value is the only pretest we have seen. my child got all 5 right and is still trapped in petal clicking hell

2nd grade 2 hrs into number lines which is simple matching numbers. It has become a joke in our house, he is eating lunch and just clicking as fast as he can. TWO HOURS of this and no end in sight even though he hasn’t missed a single one.

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Anonymous wrote:Teachers can assign content. I assigned content today.

Can you explain this a little more? So you can go into ST Math, and click "subtracting fractions" if that is what your class is learning this week, and then the kids go into ST Math and do subtracting fractions? Because that makes more sense to me.

So each grade level should be assigned a journey. Then the teacher can assign content to the whole class or individual students. Based off our first unit, I assigned an objective. Kids can be assigned objectives of different grade levels as well. There is a place on the login to get assignments the teachers have assigned.

so they didn't tell everyone to start on first grade math, that's just teachers using the default? It doesn't automatically start fourth graders on 4th grade math?

I know there is a pretest cause my students mentioned it when we first logged in. They didn’t mention if the content was too easy like place value.

Anonymous wrote:Neither of my kids saw these petals. Second and fifth. The second grader is stuck on the glue/estimation though. Is he bad with numbers? No, about average. Is he learning anything? No. Not how to find numbers on a number line, not how to deal with frustration.

Am I furious? No. It's only a couple days in.

I guess your teachers at least tried to assign appropriate level of content.