DeltaMath Overview

DeltaMath
Overview

Teri Ferguson
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Math Teacher
Moulton Middle School

​Lawrence County Schools
Tech Byte Day ~ June 4, 2024

Experience & Background
Taught Grades 8-12 @ ELHS, LCHS, MMS
14 years in classroom
2 years intervention

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Open Ended

Please enter your school email address. This will help me share resources at the end of the session.

Poll

Which statement(s) apply to you? Choose all that apply.

• I use IXL regularly.

• I use Savvas online assignments regularly.

• I use paper assignments regularly.

• I use DeltaMath regularly.

• None of these.

Poll

Which best describes your experience with DeltaMath? Choose one.

• I use it with my students regularly.

• I have used it with my students before.

• I have heard of it.

• I had never heard of it before I saw the Tech Byte Day schedule.

​DeltaMath Pricing Link

DeltaMath: A Freemium Resource

​Time limits
Problem limits

Open Ended

What is something on your course of study for which you don't have good resources? Please include the name of the course in your response.

Create a free teacher account

• https://www.deltamath.com/teachers-schools

• Click the orange "Create Account" button.

• Register/login with your school Google account

Try joining my class as a student

1. Log out of your teacher account.

2. Click this registration link (specific to my class).

3. Create an account with your PERSONAL EMAIL address.

4. Begin the Tech Byte Practice Assignment to experience the student side a bit. Try answering a question incorrectly every now and then.

5. Each assignment has a unique link if you want to post it on Google Classroom or Schoology.

Weighting

Explore the vast content

• Sign out as a student.

• Sign in as a teacher.

• Browse grade level content by topic--headers are expandable

• Switch to Sort by: Standards--very convenient, not perfect--suggest printing and marking up

Guided & Discovery Questions

• Signed in as teacher

• Sort by: Year/Topic

• Type in search bar "guided" or "discovery"--suggestions if needed...

  • Multiplying fractions w/area model (guided)

  • Finding the mean graphically (guided)

  • Combine like terms (basic - guided)

  • Composition of transformations: Rigid motions (discovery)

  • Transformation of functions (discovery)

Context questions

• Still signed in as teacher

• Sort by: Year/Topic

• Search "context"

• MANY topics that require students to interpret the math in context and practice reading skills in a mastery-based environment.

View data that we generated today

• Problems log

• Grade table

• Individual student page

• Student last action

• Usually discounted after Christmas for the remainder of school year.

• Practice or supplement other curriculum--stick with free.

• High absenteeism or remote learning--videos are worth paying.

• Other deciding factors in favor of paid version

  • Tests

  • Grades automatically passback to PowerSchool via Schoology

  • Printing (useful for tests with resource teacher)

  • Co-teachers

• All of the math content is always available with the free version.

Discussion of paid version

Open Ended

What are you still wondering? What information would you like to have that we didn't discuss today?