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Question from the Field:
What online math practice or supplemental programs do you use in your school? Why did you choose them?
1. Twin Ridges
While there are many programs out there, we have liked Math U See to help parents who feel like they cannot explain math to their kids. The parent and the student can watch together and repeat it. It is a manipulative based set of lessons with work book. Not standards based, but thorough.
2. Golden Eagle
We just started using Ascend Math this year. The program starts with a diagnostic test, then places the student in an appropriate level. Students take a pre-test on each unit assigned, and are able to skip ahead if they pass the pre-test. Each unit has a video lesson, practice problems, and a post-test. Immediate feedback (in the form of hints, related problems, and full solutions) is available if students need help. This seems to be working well for our students - for elementary it can be used as a comprehensive math program or a supplement to other math they are doing
3. Circle of Independent Learning (COIL)
COIL is currently using ALEKS Math on-line --it is web based so it is easily accessible from several computers a family may have, it is easy for the Advisory teacher to access student data and monitor time spent on learning and best of all, the cost is reasonable!
4. Diego Hills
We are currently using Revolution K12’s CAHSEE 380 prep course. We had a handful of students use it for
CAHSEE prep in March and many of them passed as a result. We are very satisfied with this program.
5. CORE @ The Camptonville Academy
We have found ALEKS Math to be largely ineffective, and we have tried to move away from using it. STAR scores should lack of progress with students using

ALEKS, even when they were in a math lab setting with support available. The great thinking behind ALEKS is an assessment that creates an individual course of study for each student. The big weakness is lack of instruction...students must be motivated to read to gain math instruction.
Teaching Textbooks has become more popular, but we don't have enough history with it to give it a solid recommendation. What we do like is that it is homeschool friendly and provides more audio/visual math instruction.
IXL is a great online math practice program. It is not a full curriculum, but again, a great practice program. (ixl.com) Students are motivated with it, and it is a good way to fill gaps and make "drill and kill" fun.
KhanAcademy videos are being utilized more often. We share the the CAHSEE
Math release questions to all of our 10th graders, and give them a link to the Khan videos that go over every problem.
6. CORE Butte
Here are the supplemental programs we are using for math.
We choose these because the kids like to do them. Sometimes we have prizes attached to levels of learning. Parents need to guide students to the correct areas to practice the type of math they are working on in their regular math text.
Whole School
IXL.com - Practice
BrainPOP - Educational
Education City - Practice
Scantron Skills Connection - Practice guided by teacher
Timez Attack www.bigbrainz.com Times Tables instruction and practice. New, they now have addition
Individuals
Math is fun www.mathisfun.com
Khan Academy xtramath www.xtramath.com
Math TV
AdaptedMind online tutoring (cross between IXL and Khan Academy)
Alek - we didn't like this program, Because the parents can not track what the students are doing
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