There are two types of workspaces in MATHia: Mastery and Concept Builders.
In Concept Builder workspaces, students engage with a variety of instructional strategies to develop their understanding of math concepts. These workspaces provide students with essential learning opportunities to prepare them for the Mastery workspaces that follow. Concept Builders that occur at the end of a Unit make important connections or summarize the learning from the previous workspaces. In each Concept Builder, students encounter a set number of problems and move on after they complete all of the given problems (workspace is Completed). Most Concept Builder workspaces do not have a step-by-step problem.
Mastery workspaces provide students with highly individualized and self-paced instruction that adapts to their exact needs to deepen their conceptual understanding of the mathematics. Through adaptive learning technologies, they engage in reasoning and sense-making. As students work through Mastery workspaces, they are both developing and demonstrating their knowledge. Each step in a problem aligns with one or more skills, creating a given set of skills for each workspace. As students work, MATHia estimates their knowledge of each skill based on whether they complete steps correctly on their own, by using hints, or after making errors. Students move on when they have mastered all of the skills in a workspace (workspace is Mastered) or when they reach the maximum number of problems in a workspace without demonstrating mastery on all of the skills (workspace is Not Mastered).
