Thursday, November 4, 2010

A Question about Adding Courses

Here is a question some of you may have as well.

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Hi There,

I am a mother of one of the HomeSchool
Advantage students. I've been trying to add Dividing, as well as Muliplication to my son's Addition Math Course but it isn't adding it. Can you look into it for me?
-A HomeSchool Mom

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Thank you for your question.

For courses in the same subject (the same row in the assignments table) only one course will we presented to the student at a time. Once a student completes a course, they will progress to the next course in that subject.

For math courses, the lowest numbered assigned course will be presented to the student first. Then, when all of the facts in that course have been presented to the student once, the system will progress on to the next highest numbered course.

In any given subject, like Math, new facts are only presented to the student from one course at a time - the lowest numbered course. You may watch this video for a description: http://www.vimeo.com/14885600

Older students who are simply reviewing material they already may know can use the "Rate a Fact" feature to rate how well they know a more simple fact, like 2+8=10.

"Rate a Fact" is described in this video: http://www.vimeo.com/14880346

If they rate this fact highly, because they already know it quite well, then they can rapidly progress onto new course like subtraction, multiplication, and division.

Older student who are simply reviewing math facts they already know are encouraged to use the "Add More Facts" feature to quickly review and rate the facts (for example facts they may already know in addition), so the system can rapidly move forward to subtraction, and then to multiplication, and then to division.

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