MATH PRACTICE

PacerMind provides comprehensive educational content and delivers it in an engaging and rewarding manner. Interactive problems, assessments, and lesson suggestions keep students fully engaged throughout the learning experience. Your student will graduate with a deep and conceptional understanding of all of the materials.

• Math Practice offers unlimited questions in 900+ PK-5 skills
• Students work through the curriculum at their own pace
• System automatically suggests the next math lesson based on individual strength and weakness
• Practice questions use colorful images and illustrations to capture the attention of students and help maintain focus
• Students receive immediate feedback and explanations for incorrect answers
• Immediate feedback helps students take real-time corrective action
• Students are provided with a digital scratchpad for work
• Customized learning offers a more engaging alternative to boring textbooks

PERSONALIZED RECOMMENDATIONS

PacerMind continuously tracks student knowledge and skill levels during practice and uses such information to assign personalized recommendations as they work through the curriculum. These continuous adjustments to student needs assure that students always have a clear, up to date, and well-defined action plan to improve their skills, understanding, scores, and mastery of concepts.

• In addition to having a customized learning path, students are free to work on any topic in the curriculum
• Recommendations are assigned based on the student’s progress in practice
• PacerMind provides single click access to personalized recommendations based on the current skill score
• Once a student performs the practice based on recommendations, the action list is automatically updated accordingly

CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENTS

The PacerMind program assesses students’ learning continuously using various automated diagnostic assessments. The program gains a precise understanding of what students have learned as they progress, as well as what topics still need practice. Each assessment consists of 30-50 questions.

• When the student logs into their account for the first time, they will be required to take an initial skills test so that the program can assess their existing knowledge The first time a student logs in their account, they will be required to take an initial skills assessment
• Continuous formative assessments are assigned at regular intervals as students work through the curriculum
• An end-of-year summative assessment helps identify the student’s broad-level understanding of grade-level concepts
• Upon request, additional summative assessments can be provided to parents for evaluation
• Assessment reports display progress by chapter and are designed to identify gaps in students’ learning

SKILLS SUGGESTION

Developed from user feedback, the skills suggestion feature acts as an alternative to searching for and tracking the skills parents would like their children to be practicing. This feature allows parents to take a role in assigning skills for their children to practice. Please note that Skills Suggestion is a great tool for parents who want to add particular material for their students to practice. However, its use is not necessary to receive the full benefit of PacerMind.

• Parents select and assign skills from the curriculum
• Questions are pre-defined, and submissions are graded automatically
• Parents can provide comment and feedback to students on assigned skills
• Students can view their skill suggestions list and select any of their choosing to begin practicing
• The system tracks all of suggested work
• Please note that SKILLS SUGGESTION is an optional feature for parents and student. It is not necessary to use this feature to receive the maximum benefit of PacerMind

MOTIVATION

PacerMind balances learning and play, offering an excellent reward and certificate system to motivate students. Their hard work is rewarded by earning points and certificates, keeping them engaged and motivated.

• Students earn points by answering questions correctly and completing milestones
• Students earn bonus points when they complete all lessons within a unit
• Students receive a certificate for each lesson upon completion
• Earned points can be redeemed for badges at the award center
• Earned badges can be used as profile pictures

ACTIONABLE INSIGHTS

PacerMind provides a real-time progress Dashboard, Gradebook, and Practice Log. These analytics provide insight into where students are performing well, as well as under-performances that need additional practice.

• PacerMind provides multiple reports for students: Practice Log, Gradebook, Problem Areas and Submission Details
• Real-time analytics measure student’s progress and help student take corrective measures
• Dashboard data is updated in real time and provides deep insight on most recent works
• Parent and student dashboards are updated in real-time and provide swift insights about students’ work and progress
• Reports on your child’s progress are sent weekly via e-mail
• A personalized Common Core Standards Alignment report provides insight into your child’s understanding of Common Core standards

MATH COMPETITION

Math practice alone is not enough – students must build their confidence in mathematics for long lasting results, and what better way than putting those new skills to the test in a fun and engaging way? By participating in competitions, students develop interest and confidence in their math skills. Research shows that competition participants tend to get better-standardized test scores. For this reason, we provide a competition component to our curriculum. Participation in our math competitions will help increase your child’s interest, confidence, and prepare them better for real exams.

• We organize friendly online math competitions throughout the year
• Competitions are optional and completely free of cost for subscribed PacerMind students
• In each competition, students are given 20 to 30 questions
• A national leaderboard standing is maintained