Dear Families,
The Zearn online math program is really a strong math support for your child and we encourage its use both at school (in differentiation and extension) and at home (for practice and review).
Some students have devoted quite a lot of attention to practice on the program and I wanted to share some progress notes. In class we have worked through 2 Eureka Units. The Zearn program is aligned to these. There is also some significant correspondence between the number of completed lessons by students and their overall success in math this year.
Of our 27 students, looked at in roughly quartiles, the completion ranges have been between 0-2 lessons (7 students) and 11 - 21 lesson (6 students). The rest of the students lie in the large average range of 5 - 10 lessons completed.
There are 45 lessons available for the combined "Missions (Units)" 1-2. Student didn't begin the program until October 4. To this point I have provided approximately eight 20-30 minute sessions for students to use the program during math differentiation time (the time varied for each student) and the students had the option to do Zearn in our computer lab time for roughly 20 minutes most Tuesdays.
Please ask your child how many lessons they have completed and I encourage you to sit down one evening and see how the program works with her or him. I think a helpful goal would be for students to complete about 2 lessons per week at home. Especially on days there is minimal Eureka math homework, I'd suggest students spend about 20 minutes on the program and balance this with 20-30 minutes of their personal reading. If your schedule isn't full with other activities, Wednesdays would be a perfect day to knock out one lesson anyway.
Kudos to these 7 students for their extra commitment to their math studies using Zearn:
Isaiah, Will, Luke, Julia, Greyson, and Madelyn.
Kind regards,
Mr. Hagstrom
