“If you want children to really get the benefits of instruction, you cannot take the teacher out.” That’s the core of Dr. VanDerHeyden’s model. In SpringMath, the teacher delivers the instruction and adjusts to the results, and technology is there to help them do that better.
Teachers get instant graph feedback. Incremental rehearsal is built in. Short animated videos, two to five minutes each, cover about 145 skills from numeracy to algebra. They model how to teach each skill, and a substitute or a less confident teacher can show them straight to students. Where the evidence points the other way, SpringMath stays on paper. Students do better working with pencil and paper next to a partner, catching each other’s mistakes and explaining their thinking step by step. “It wouldn’t be that hard to make everything digital,” she says. But every SpringMath decision comes back to one question: what does the evidence say works for student learning?"
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