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Welcome to Ipê Decode - short documentaries on science, technology and its impact on society.
Ep 01. Why Do We Forget Almost Everything We Learn?
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Will this App change the way you teach Math?
In this short, we look at Math Academy, an AI-powered math platform with content from 4th grade through university-level math. What stood out:
1. The AI algorithm assesses each student's level. It's not a simple math assessment platform.
2. After a miss, it asks if it was a silly mistake, then serves a new variation or a lesson.
3. Students can, in some ways, teach themselves with really great content.
Math Academy is an approved Curriki partner, and we've already given several grants to schools to deploy it.
Full review on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=jircf1…
Read the full review: grants.curriki.org/math-academy/
Apply: grants.curriki.org
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Today we are launching ACT Math Fundamentals on Math Academy (905 topics).
While building it, we uncovered 88 new "missing middle" topics - skills that appear regularly on the ACT but are rarely taught in a standard curriculum.
What's the missing middle? I'm glad you asked...
Most people assume that if a student earns A’s in Algebra, Geometry, and Precalculus, they have been taught all the math on the ACT exam.
Often, they haven’t.
Between standard textbook exercises and the problems that appear on standardized exams sits a large "missing middle": problems where familiar concepts are combined in non-standard ways, disguised in unfamiliar representations, or constrained so that standard textbook scripts fail.
With only about a minute per question on average across the ACT math section, encountering these structures for the first time on test day can kill your pacing. If you spend three or four minutes inventing a method on a few unfamiliar problems in the middle of the section, the clock runs out before you even reach the questions at the end.
Step one of serious test prep is making sure you never have to invent those methods on the spot.
ACT Math Fundamentals spans the entire breadth of the exam - from core algebra, geometry, and statistics up through matrices, 2D and 3D vectors, complex numbers, conic sections, logarithms, and full trigonometry - and integrates all of these "missing middle" skills directly into our knowledge graph.
Students begin with an adaptive diagnostic and work through the lessons untimed (with periodic quizzes to verify retention), first repairing upstream prerequisite gaps and then building fluency across every problem structure the exam tests.
And once students complete Fundamentals, they will promote into ACT Math Prep (launching soon) - a dedicated training ground of high-fidelity practice exams designed purely to master the strict timing of the actual test.
Over the next week, I’ll share a mini-series unpacking what this "missing middle" looks like and why standard curricula miss it.View quoted post on X
They did it, my beamish boys! ⚔️🐉
My 3rd and 6th graders have slain the AP Calc BC dragon and just got their 5s!View quoted post on X
