Welcome to another new school year! We are excited and honored to work with you and your students again this year. Here is a quick video that highlights some of the improvements that we have made over the summer.
Thank you for your thoughtful feedback and insights which helped us make Woot Math a stronger platform for the math classroom. If you have any questions, please let us know. We are here to help. And best of luck on another new school year!
While Woot Math was designed for classroom teachers to reach more students, we also have a lot of homeschool parents that want to use Woot Math (after all, you are teachers too!) Here are a couple of strategies for implementing Woot Math with your children at home.
Adaptive Learning
Woot Math’s Adaptive Learning content can help you address gaps in foundational topics like fractions. This instructional content is delivered with an adaptive engine and has been shown in two randomized controlled trials to deliver a 2X increase in learning.
You can review Woot Math’s scope & sequence here. To just use Adaptive Learning with your children, you can filter by the Adaptive Learning content. Simply check the Grades 3-7 filter as shown, and only the Adaptive Learning content will be shown.
Once you assign your first Adaptive Learning assignment, it will appear on your child’s dashboard. As your child completes Adaptive Learning assignments, the next appropriate one will automatically open (in the READY FOR MORE area) as shown below.
Quizzes, Exit Tickets, Warmups and More
Woot Math also provides K-12 quizzes, exit tickets, warmups and more. These formative assessments are not part of the adaptive progression of Woot Math, so new ones do not get automatically assigned like the Adaptive Learning lessons. Rather, think of them as homework, quizzes, or even tests.
Using the same filtering as shown above, simply filter by grade, number of tasks, or topics to select the desired content. You can preview, copy, and even modify them to customize them for your needs, and then make assignments to your child. Two examples of this are also shown above on the student dashboard (the two white tiles labeled WARMUP). These are all FREE, and available to everyone with a Woot Math account!
Getting Started
If you would like to get started with Woot Math, please check out the interactive PD for quick videos to get you started. There are also lots of additional resources on the resource page. While many of these are designed for teachers in a classroom, they will be just as applicable for homeschool parents!
Adaptive Learning provides research-based content to help your students master critical concepts with a proven personalized learning platform. In our most recent NSF-funded research (a randomized control trial with 27 teachers and 526 students), the use of Woot Math’s Adaptive Learning platform resulted in students learning TWICE as fast as they did in business-as-usual conditions.
Select your grade to view the topics and details. A PDF is also available for download which includes all of the topics as well as related standards. You can download that here.
When running a quiz, exit ticket, warmup or poll in your classroom, you can generate automatic grouping based on the current question or task. To do that, first select Show Results from the teacher-led poll (note that you do not have to reveal the answer to show results).
Then select Assign Groups, and Woot Math will automatically generate student groups using the response data from the current task.
At the bottom of the screen are controls settings for the group size and formation (random, homogeneous, heterogeneous or custom legend if available).
Grouping is a quick way to help further differentiate in real-time based on results from the current question or task posed to students. Want additional grouping functionality? Please let us know! Want to learn more about implementing formative assessment in your classroom? Read more here.
When either creating a quiz, exit ticket, warmup or poll, or running one in real-time with your class, you can generate bookmarks to store either exemplar work or student work for later. You might want to bring up samples of good work, or common mistakes, for classroom discussion. Creating a bookmark can help make this easy in the classroom.
Anytime you are viewing a student response, you can always generate a bookmark in the top left-hand corner, as shown here.
Selecting Bookmark this answer will allow you to give your bookmark a title and save it for later use. In this case, we’ve titled it Good work shown.
Once you have bookmarks, then you can display them in your classroom, or review them offline. To view them, select display results, then click on the bookmarks tab. This will display all of your bookmarks, and you can select any of them for projection to your class.
Bookmarks are a quick and easy way to facilitate classroom discussions around mathematics. Woot!
When creating or modifying a quiz, exit ticket, warmup, or homework/classwork, you can optionally specify a custom legend. The custom legend is a powerful tool for real-time formative assessment.
With a little bit of pre-planning, you can anticipate common ways in which your students will respond. When they respond in one of the expected ways, the software will automatically highlight these as different colored tiles.
To create your own custom legend, you can enable it when you create or modify a task. Enable the option Add a Custom Legend for Student Work, and then specify any anticipated student results.
Select the button to enable it. Once you do that, then you will see the following:
You can investigate student responses not only from the answers they enter, but also from the work they show on the scratchpad.
The custom legend is evaluated from top to bottom. For example, in this case if a student responded with the correct answer (½) but also typed 8x on the scratchpad, their response (colored tile) would be color-coded as the correct answer (purple). To display the results of the custom legend, simply select the title of the custom legend from the drop-down in the response legend while running a poll.
The student work will be color-coded based on their results and the custom legend you setup, as shown below.
With a little bit of pre-planning the custom legend can be a powerful tool to help you run real-time formative assessments in the classroom. Want to learn more about formative assessment strategies? Read more here.
For the new school year, we’ve changed the name from Adaptive Practice to Adaptive Learning. But don’t worry, it still includes the features you have come to know and love (fractions, decimals, ratios, rates and proportions, negative numbers, and more!)
Why the change?
We wanted to better align the name with the program’s innovative approach to delivering a personalized sequence of instructional content to every student. This award-winning, research-backed program ensures all students have the foundation they need to succeed in math.
Another critical benefit is that it now better delivers research-backed content – what you need when you need it. Regardless if you need Adaptive Learning or rich math tasks for an exit ticket, you can now find and manage your content more quickly and easily!
What changed?
Adaptive Learning can now be assigned by unit (or book). The new assignments are more like traditional assignments, you can specify an end date, view progress towards completion, etc. And if you are using Google Classroom, those assignments are now also available there.
Students also have a new student dashboard which gives them agency over their learning. They can choose which assignment to work on, view their data, updates, and your feedback.
How do I use the new Adaptive Learning?
On your teacher dashboard, you’ll now see a Content tab. Under the Content tab, Explore Content is where you can browse all of the content available for you to use, which includes both Adaptive Learning as well as formative assessments (quizzes, exit tickets, warmups, and more). Make an assignment to your students, and that assignment will appear on the student dashboard for them to complete.
The Adaptive Learning units are indicated in blue with Adaptive Learning as the tag (show here are Making Sense of Fractions and Fractions on a Number Line). To view all of the Adaptive Learning units, you can also click on the Adaptive Content filter.
You can easily assign these units to your students by hovering over the desired unit and selecting Assign.
Assignments
Once you make an Adaptive Learning assignment, your students will login to their student dashboard to complete their assignments. Your students can log in to the student dashboard from the Woot Math homepage, or directly at https://www.wootmath.com/student
As your students are working through their assignments, you receive real-time reporting on their progress. New Adaptive Learning content will continue to open as they complete their current assignment. You can view their progress from the Assignments and Analytics tabs.
What if I need more information?
An interactive PD is available that will walk you through various aspects of using Woot Math in your classroom. For additional information, there is also a Teacher User Guide, or contact us with any questions, we are always happy to help!
When you connect your Woot Math account to Google Classroom, Woot Math can use your roster from Google Classroom so you do not have to manually setup classes. To learn more on this process, please go here.
This process will sync all of your Google Classroom rosters into Woot Math, so you can use Woot Math with any of the classrooms that you’ve setup in Google Classroom. Occasionally you might like to exclude or selectively import classes setup in Google Classroom into Woot Math.
Unfortunately that is not yet possible (although we are working on it!) So for now, if you’d like to use Google Classroom with Woot Math, you’ll have all of your Google Classrooms also listed in Woot Math. Don’t worry, Google Classroom is still in charge of your roster, so if you want to make any changes, just make it in Google Classroom, and it will be automatically updated in Woot Math.
There are a variety of ways to play as a student.
Formative Assessments
To run a quiz, exit ticket, warm up, or formative assessment as a student, you can:
Adaptive Learning
To run an Adaptive Learning as a student, you can:
To run an assignment as a student, you will first need to create a sample student account. To do this, create a new student called Teacher from the Manage Roster tab on the teacher dashboard. You can either add the new student account to an existing class, or you can create a new class and then add a new student to the new class.
Woot Math relies on connections to the below servers. We use secure connections over HTTPs, port 443, but we recommend also opening port 80 to allow redirects from HTTP.
