To assign activities in MATHiaFlex, you must first have a class created. You may assign activities in two ways - directly from a resource on your Resources page or by searching and filtering for specific activities in the Assignment Library.
There are a variety of activity types that you may assign to students. Assigned activities are completed digitally within MATHiaFlex. You may assign any activity (or group of activities), regardless of level or grade, to any class, group, or individual student.
MATHiaFlex Workspaces
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Concept Builder |
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Students engage with a variety of instructional strategies—explore tools, animations, classification tools, and worked examples—to develop their understanding of math concepts. In each Concept Builder, students encounter a set number of problems and move on after they complete all of the given problems. |
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These workspaces provide students with essential learning opportunities to prepare them for the Mastery workspaces that follow. These workspaces provide a fixed number of problems that introduce students to concepts. |
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Use them prior to mastery workspaces as an introduction to the learning that follows. Concept Builders that occur at the end of a Unit make important connections and/or summarize the learning from the previous workspaces. |
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Mastery |
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Through adaptive learning technologies, students engage in reasoning and sense-making. As students work through Mastery workspaces, they are both developing and demonstrating their knowledge. |
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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. Students move on when they have mastered all of the skills in a workspace or when they reach the maximum number of problems in a workspace without demonstrating mastery on all of the skills. |
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When? |
Mastery workspaces should be assigned to students in addition to Concept Builder workspaces. In MATHia, a mastery workspace gives students problems that let them demonstrate the mathematical skills they are learning. To complete a mastery workspace students must work through an indefinite number of problems until they have shown mastery of all the skills in the workspace. Unlike in a Concept Builder workspace, students will not necessarily complete the same number of problems in order to complete the workspace. |
Content Related Assignments
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ReadyCheck |
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ReadyCheck is a brief, formative assessment created to support student readiness by assessing prior-grade standards prerequisites to gauge learning gaps or unfinished learning. |
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Why? |
Teachers may then use readiness data to determine instructional planning and scaffolding strategies and assignment of content in MATHiaFlex without redirecting valuable class time towards remediation. ReadyChecks help teachers meet students where they are so they can jump into teaching on-grade-level content right away. |
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Teachers should assign ReadyCheck assessments at the beginning of each Module. |
Teacher-Created Assignments
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FlipGrid |
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Flipgrid is a free video discussion platform from Microsoft that helps educators see and hear from every student in class and foster fun and supportive social learning. In Flipgrid, educators post discussion prompts and students respond with short videos, whether they are learning in class or at home. |
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With Flipgrid fully integrated into Passport, you can create and save activities for future use, tag the activity to a specific level and unit, share your activity with other teachers, and assign the activity to students with a specific due date. Some programs also have pre-created Flipgrid activities. |
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Use as a lesson opener, closer, formative assessment, summative assessment -- the possibilities are limitless. Flipgrid provides the flexibility to hear from each individual student at any time during their learning journey. |
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Custom |
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These are teacher-created activities that allow you to share resources with students, create short-answer response activities, or allow students to upload different types of files for projects, presentations, etc. |
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Custom activities provide you with the flexibility to personalize your lessons and activities by sharing resources with students, creating short-answer response activities, or allowing students to upload responses in a variety of formats for projects, presentations, and assignments. |
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Use as a lesson opener, closer, formative assessment, summative assessment -- the possibilities are limitless. |
Activity Bundles
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MATHia Unit |
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A MATHia Unit is a Carnegie Learning created collection of workspaces that are curated to address a broader concept than an individual MATHia Workspace. Workspaces within a MATHia Unit are placed in coherence order to ensure students are learning the concepts in Carnegie Learning’s recommended order. |
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MATHia Units curate MATHia workspaces for you, which makes it easier and saves time for teachers when making content assignment decisions. |
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When you see MATHia Units in your Content Library, the units will always appear in coherence order. We suggest assigning the units in the order they appear to ensure students are learning concepts in Carnegie Learning’s recommended order. |
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Teacher-Created Bundle |
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A bundle is a collection of activities combined into one assignment. Bundles can include various types of activities for the students to complete in a prescribed order if you choose. |
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Teacher-Created Bundles allow you to organize the Carnegie Learning activities, your Flipgrid activities, and your Custom activities in a single assignment. Teachers have the option to turn on auto progress within Bundles, requiring students to complete the activities within the Bundle in the prescribed order. |
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Use a Teacher-Created Bundle when you would like students to complete a collection of activities as part of a single assignment. |
You can access your Content Library at any time to browse or create activities or bundles of activities to assign to your students. This is the hub for browsing, creating, managing, or assigning activities of all types.
Use the filters to narrow your search parameters. Type part of a title in the Search bar if you know the title. You may preview activities by clicking on the title. You may click the plus + to add activities or bundles to your Assign Cart, and you may click Create Activity to create a Custom or Flipgrid activity.
