Teachley, LLC

The research team  will fully develop and test a supplemental resource for mathematics teachers and students in elementary school classrooms. U.S. students continue to struggle in mathematics. Part of why U.S. students lag behind in international comparisons may relate to the continued emphasis on procedural learning and repeated practice in mathematics curricula, rather than deeper, more complex mathematical thinking.

This project team will fully develop and test a product for educators that organizes and interprets student solutions in response to mathematical problems. Mathematical problem solving is at the heart of effective mathematics learning because it requires students to think deeply about content and employ higher-order thinking. However, assessing problem solving is difficult. Multiple choice questions only assess the final solution and ignore the process. When students do show their work when ...

This project will develop transmedia kits including videos, games, creation tools, character cards, and comic books to engage and support Kindergarten to grade five students in learning strategies to understand abstract mathematical topics, such as such as on misconceptions related to place value and multi-digit operations. The kits will be a supplemental resource for elementary teachers looking to support instructional practice.

The project will develop a prototype of a formative assessment dashboard for teachers to view, monitor, and gain insight from students' digital work in mathematics to inform instruction.

This project team will fully develop and test Teachley Connect, a platform that syncs a variety of third-party math games to give elementary schools formative assessment data and intervention support. Mobile math games provide opportunities for students to access educationally-meaningful content in and out of the classroom and to supplement instruction. There are a number of examples of math apps that show promise for supporting and assessing student learning in different areas of mathematic...

This project team is developing and testing a prototype of the Teachley Analytics Library, a platform intended to host third party-developed mathematics game apps for students in kindergarten through Grade 8. The prototype will include a dashboard to host games and generate formative assessment data to inform teacher instruction.