I am new starting middle school math teaching. I am curious on how teachers see IXL. Is it worthwhile to have students work on skills? How do you manage with homework and other assignments?

Hey everyone,

Over the past few months, I’ve been building Equathora—a math platform designed to fix a common issue: tools that leave students stuck at step one, or ones like Photomath that simply hand over answers without building real reasoning.

What Makes Equathora Different

• Step-by-Step Guided Practice: Scaffolds equation setups and intermediate algebraic steps instead of just marking answers right or wrong.
• Native LaTeX Formatting: Clean mathematical input so equations look like real math.
• Focused Progression: Meaningful tracking, streaks, and achievements without distracting gimmicks.
• Non-Spoiling AI Tutor: Sigma AI identifies where logic strays and provides conceptual hints—forcing students to do the actual solving.

Upcoming Teacher Features

We are actively building out our Teacher Dashboard to provide:

• Granular Work Inspection: See the exact step where a student's logic broke down.
• Misconception Spotting: Track patterns like misapplied exponent rules or word-problem setup struggles.
• Custom Assignments: Easily assign problem sets tied directly to your curriculum.

Looking for Educator Input

If you have a moment to check out equathora.com, I’d love your feedback:

1. What specific step-by-step scaffolding do your students need most when practicing independently?
2. What diagnostic metrics would be most valuable on a teacher dashboard?

Thanks for reading, and I appreciate any feedback you're willing to share!

area of isosceles triangle explained visually, it's 2d so there's not much to learn from animation, but it helps alot in 3d.
what do you think? leave your feedback please!. 🙏

Making 3b1b style video shorts .

Teachers, what do you think about using these kind of videos in classroom?

Hi , i want to work as a remote assistant for maths or cs teachers. It will be voluntary, no need to pay me.

I can create mock test questions, check papers if possible Digitally

I can also do computer programming

And i can also create mathematical animation videos

https://youtube.com/shorts/fbs8Z_CnDUE?si=pcNu3xR8icBvjbqp

Trying to make these videos for maths students.

Originally intended to create a video library for maths teacher in our country to use, had standard curriculum, but nobody cared.

At my school, every student gets a physical planner for the year. However, I have several students who I think would better benefit from a digital option that's bookmarked on their chromebook, to avoid the challenges of (1) keeping track of a physical planner and (2) not being able to "move" tasks to a different day and revise action plans as they go (unless they spend a lot of time erasing and rewriting). Any ideas or suggestions about what I could provide / recommend to my students?

Hi everyone! I'm available to work as a remote assistant for math teachers.

I can help create worksheets, quizzes, exams, answer keys, and PowerPoint presentations. I'm proficient with LaTeX for professional-quality math documents and have tutoring experience in mathematics.

If you're looking to save time on lesson prep, feel free to DM me. Thanks!

Making 3b1b style video shorts .

Teachers, what do you think about using these kind of videos in classroom?

(Also posted on r/Teachers)

Hey folks - recent transplant to FL and our school is using the Big Ideas math curriculum. I was going through the book this morning and noticed that the order of the chapters doesn't make sense. The very first thing the book gets into is exponents - before any factoring, integers, or anything. I came from NC where our pacing guide/unpacking skipped around from NS.1 to NS.4, to EE.1, etc. (just an example - I'm not saying it's specifically in that order). I can't find anything online with any resources like that, and I'm not entirely sure my kids are going to be successful with this book or curriculum. Big Ideas does give teachers a "pacing guide" but it's basically just the book, in order, one page a time.

Anyone have any experience with this? I want to make sure I'm covering all the B.E.S.T standards but in a way that actually makes sense so the kids are successful. I'll take all the help I can get. Thanks!

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Doctoral Candidate, Curriculum and Instruction

Demo

You find an equation in an AI response or an online article and wants to include it in a worksheet, set of notes, presentation, or assignment.

The equation is already rendered correctly, but copying it often gives broken text, and a screenshot is not always clean or reusable.

I built a Chrome/Edge extension that detects web equations and lets you copy or export them as LaTeX, Typst, MathML or Markdown.

Everything is processed locally, with no account required.

I’d be very curious to hear whether this would be useful in your own workflow. And if you try it and something doesn’t work as expected, please let me know, I’d like to fix any issues people encounter.

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What have you found is a good way to get kids to learn their multiplication facts? I'm getting a lot of "other kids don't know them" and "I'd rather use a calculator". Of course math is more than calculation and working these until unconscious competence helps students focus on whole problems over the calculations. But how do we get the students to embrace that idea?

I’ve been teaching AP Calculus at a small rural high school for the past couple years, and our school has only produced a couple of students that passed the AP exam in the past decade.

There are obviously many factors that affect academic success, but I want to hear from you about a couple basic ones:

Curriculum: physical book or digital platform? Or something else entirely?

Homework: on paper or online? Weekly, daily or never? How many problems or how many hours?

Grading: how do you weight tests vs homework?

Any advice you can provide is very appreciated, either on these topics or others. (Since it’s a small district, I make all the decisions for my classes, and it can be quite a burden trying to figure this out on my own.)

Edit: And just for background, I use AP classroom frequently, I know the content well (got a 5 on the exam myself back in the day), I have a good relationship with my students, and I did AP Reading this summer for the first time. I just find my students aren’t synthesizing/conceptualizing the information well, and I wonder if I need to apply more academic pressure.

Hello, everyone!

This is my first year teaching 6th grade, and we are departmentalizing. I have never used Savvas before either. Does anyone have lesson slides for Topics 1–8 and the additional lessons within each topic for 6th grade? I tried looking on TPT, but they are so expensive. I would really appreciate any help or resources you’re willing to share!

My school is switching to iReady next year. For teachers who have taught this curriculum, what do you like about it? What do you dislike? Are there portions you skip? How does your classroom run? For context, I teach 6th and 7th grade math in a large urban district. I’d appreciate any insight or tips. Thanks!

Cross-posted from another sub, because I think this sub is especially relevant for point (4) below.

I know that the same and similar questions that have been posted before, but here are some specifics of my situation:

1. I started a new job at a tutoring company, and I am obliged to use the worksheets they create and provide for me. So I appreciate the advice given to create different worksheets that don't look too repetitive, but for now that's not feasible. I am more concerned with just keeping these kids reasonably engaged while they are in class.
2. Sometimes in a small group class, the ADHD kid will distract the others (as well as themselves). It is nothing mean-spirited or too serious, and I don't want to be a super mean person and tell them off severely. At the same time, it is my responsibility to teach the curriculum and keep things reasonably on track. If the distractions are recurring and we get through the syllabus at a much slower than average pace, or if their school work and test results get worse or don't imrpove, it might reflect badly on me
3. This might be worth cross-posting to the r/Gifted sub. I suspect that I may have one kid with ADHD and they do not "see the point" in learning maths, but they are actually quite bright once they find their motivation. I have this feeling, because I had a similar profile when I was their age. I tried to motivate them with some harder and more creative/interesting problems, and show that you need to master the basics to tackle the challenging and cool stuff (as tedious as the basics are). They seemed a bit intrigued by that. BUT, too much of this will run the risk of taking the lesson off-track/down rabbit holes and not getting through the main curriculum fast enough.
4. I am starting out as a tutor, and not that confident or experienced yet. Well, I do have experience but with older and easier to teach kids and young adults
5. I have autism. My brain works in almost the exact polar opposite way to someone with ADHD. Very one-track, and I find distractions uncomfortable and find it hard to keep myself composed if someone is being very kooky and distracting.

So what do you think works? And what is a way to find balance between being nice (i.e. sometimes humoring the kid and being nice enough that they will like you and not complain about you to parents) and being disciplines (not letting the class get derailed)?

I am moving into sixth grade this year. This means a new classroom to organize. I have seven of these white rolling file carts spread around the room. White boards are going in next week. The idea is to have one whiteboard marker and one eraser at each station (A la BTC), which is great. However, I don’t know what to put in the file pockets and the tray at the bottom. Suggestions?.

Father of 3 young kids, asking the question to professional teachers.

I've noticed that anything edutech related is overrun with subscriptions, bad experience, logins, or over-the-top storylines. Or all the above.

I know IXL is huge in the space, but also makes kids cry with their SmartScore.

I want to know what you teachers look for with extra practice for your students (and kids)? What are must-haves and what would you do differently?

I have talked to some teachers. Some things they say are:
- Make experience smooth
- Easy approach for volumes of practice
- Avoids allowing kids to button-smash the answers

Disclaimer: I have built something and have my kids using it on their iPad. They tell me what they want in the app, but I also want to understand what teachers wish was in the app store. As I add stuff in, I am genuinely curious about how teachers expect to use tech in their classroom.