IXL A Better Way to Learn Math
As of Tuesday, April 24, 2012 Holy Family students in grades 5-8 have spent over 2,600 hours doing IXL math homework and have answered over 265,000 math problems.
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Smart Score
IXL tracks your success and computes a score based on your results, which it displays on the screen. This is your SmartScore. SmartScore uses IXL's proprietary scoring algorithm to give you the best possible information on your performance, based on such factors as the number of problems completed, number of problems correct and incorrect, problem difficulty, and consistency.
When you begin working on a skill, your initial SmartScore for that skill is zero. When you answer a problem correctly, your score increases. When you enter a wrong answer, your score decreases. SmartScores cannot be lower than zero or higher than 100.
As you work through a skill and your score rises, the problems become more difficult and your score increases in smaller jumps. Likewise, your score may decrease only slightly if you enter a wrong answer when you begin working on a skill, but as you progress towards mastery, wrong answers cause your score to decrease in larger and larger dips.
If you leave an answer blank when you submit it, the system treats it like a wrong answer.
IXL also rates your score as Needs Improvement (<70), Satisfactory (70-79), Good (80-89), Excellent (90-99), Mastered (100), and Provisional. A Provisional rating indicates that IXL cannot accurately rate your score because you have answered fewer than 4 problems in that skill. If you have mastered a skill, your rating for that skill remains "Mastered" even if you continue to practice it later and score lower.
Practice makes perfect, and IXL makes math practice fun! IXL allows teachers and parents to monitor the progress of thier students and motivate them through interactive games and practice questions. Widely recognized as the Web's most comprehensive math site, IXL offers a dynamic and enjoyable environment for children to practice math. Students who use IXL are succeeding like never before.
IXL provides not only practice, but it helps students, parents, and teachers to evaluate student profiency in the Pennsylvania Department of Education Core Math Skills. At Holy Family School all students in grades 5–8 have access to thier own IXL account 24 hours a day. Mr. Vincent uses IXL to identify problem areas for individual students and re-teach those skills to ndividuals as needed. Ixl proficiency is also used to calculate student progress report grades in conjunction with homework, quizzes, and tests. We encourage parents to support their child's learning by expecting the student to practice at least 25 IXL problems each day at home after school. Additionally we ask that you monitor your child's progress regulary by having them show you their IXL reports on-line.