Addressing Math Difficulties at FCA

Addressing Math Difficulties at FCA

America’s education system suffered a terrible blow when schools switched to virtual learning throughout the covid pandemic. While Frederick Christian Academy was able to put policies and protocols into place that allowed them to open for in-person instruction as of the beginning of the 2020-2021 school year, FCA has not been immune to the effects of covid learning loss. This year we chose to try a pilot program with our seventh-grade students using the IXL Math online learning platform to see if IXL may help to support all our students with their math achievement scores. Correlational analyses on the data showed that math achievement scores correlated use of the IXL program with increases in the students’ math achievement.

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