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IXL is personalized learning! Trusted by over 1 million educators and parents, IXL is proven to accelerate student achievement. And with the award-winning IXL app, students can master skills anytime, anywhere!

See how IXL meets the unique needs of over 14 million learners (and counting!):

SUPERIOR SKILL-BUILDING
With IXL's full curriculum of over 8,000 skills, students of all levels can learn the exact topics they need, whether they're reviewing past concepts or exploring new territory. Immediate feedback and step-by-step answer explanations help students work through their mistakes and make lasting progress. Plus, question difficulty adapts to challenge students at just the right level and help them grow.

MATH MASTERY
With IXL's preK-12 curriculum, every learner can excel in math! From skip-counting with pictures to graphing quadratic functions, students interact with dynamic problem types that bring each concept to life. And with unlimited questions to explore, students can practice as much as they need to master each skill, and never see the same problem twice.

LANGUAGE ARTS LEARNING
IXL's preK-12 curriculum helps build strong readers and writers! From comprehension to composition, IXL breaks down each concept into highly targeted skills that help students grow from where they are. Fun and relevant questions engage students as they learn new vocabulary, correct grammar mistakes, analyze text, strengthen writing skills, and more.

SCIENCE, SOCIAL STUDIES, AND SPANISH
Build knowledge across all core subjects! With comprehensive curriculum in 2nd through 8th grade science and social studies, students can learn exciting and relevant concepts about the world around them. And with foundational Spanish, students can get started on the path toward Spanish fluency!

REAL-TIME DIAGNOSTIC
IXL's Real-Time Diagnostic pinpoints each student's current knowledge level in math and English language arts. As students answer questions, they'll discover more about themselves, and reveal personalized recommendations on the best skills to learn next!

IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE
Interactive features, from drag-and-drop questions to graphing tools, allow students to engage with the material in new ways. With handwriting recognition, students can easily write in math answers with their fingertips. On iPad, students can work through each problem by writing on their screen-no scrap paper needed! Plus, colorful awards highlight students' accomplishments and make learning fun!

PROVEN RESULTS
Research has shown that IXL improves student outcomes more than any other product or method. IXL is trusted by over 700,000 teachers worldwide!

ACTIONABLE ANALYTICS
View reports on all progress on our website! Tackle any trouble spots with specific insights and clear next steps. And celebrate reaching each new milestone with an official certificate!

Practice 10 questions each day for free. Become an IXL member to get access to a fully personalized learning experience with comprehensive curriculum, meaningful guidance, progress tracking, fun awards, and more!

IXL is kidSAFE certified and COPPA-compliant. For more information, please visit:
Privacy Policy: https://www.ixl.com/privacypolicy

The Scratchpad is now available while answering questions in the Diagnostic arena!

Let me explain

As a student I think ixl is not very fun only because when you get a question wrong it sets you back more points than when you get one right. It's still a good learning app exept for when it makes me cry out of flustration because of how it's set up. Most teachers assign and encourage children to use this app because of the education that it offers. Yes it does offer good help and practice but is still quite annoying when I get one wrong and it sets me back even more points. I have heard from so many other kids that they dislike ixl because of the way it's set up. This can often effect how long your child spends on the app trying to get a perfect score. They can stay up hours just trying to get that score, and in my opinion I think that ixl needs to be changed in a way that children are not staying up so late trying to get a good score and instead only spending so much time on the app. If ixl could make it so that when you get a problem wrong it demotes you the same amount of points as it would when you get one right. I think this would help so many children and parents not stay up late and still be able to practice. I don't know if this function was on purpose and the ixl company had a reason for this, but almost every person I ask gives me an explanation on why they dislike ixl.
,sincerely an IXL user

confusing!

I'm a student in 3rd grade and my parent is encouraging me to use this app I think it is fine but it's confusing to navigate through the app. IXL doesn't give any instructions at all of how to use this app. My second complaint is that the "recommendations" part is weird! I did a course to see what level I'm at and it put me to 5th doing things I don't even understand and never learned in 3rd grade at all! Some of the past reviews say that it's a stressful app and one of them said there kids came home in tears because it put their level down low? I really don't think that's how a kid should feel after a math app. If you've had these experiences try "Zearn" or "Kumon" because in both of those apps it doesn't make you feel bad or mad or sad. If you've ever had a bad experience with this app try those apps they are better. I hope the owner reads this and tries to find a way to make a better experience in this app. I am not trying to spread hate into this app I'm just trying to make it better but so far none of the reviews have a developer response and I really hope someone reads this and does something about it. Please don't take this as a offense.

-just trying to make math
A better and funner thing.

Too hard on kids

I am a parent and a teacher. I really like the concept behind IXL and find the choices of skills very thorough. It is a great learning tool in many respects. My kids used to love it because they would get stars they could click on for prizes.
The problems come in when a child gets something wrong (or simply puts in a comma for a number like "1,000" when the app is designed to expect "1000"). IXL will mark them wrong and take them back at least 10-20%, after which they can only get back extremely slowly. My daughter has sat at the computer in tears and bawled about how "mean" it is.
Due to all the frustration, complaints, and tears from kids and parents, my children's school stopped offering IXL this year and switched the it subscription over to Prodigy. I actually switched my own kids over to Time4Learning to practice because it is much less harsh. It will tell them what they got wrong and explain the reason without expecting them to do a huge portion of the lesson all over again to regain their points.
I would encourage the people behind this app to seriously consider revamping how they tackle "wrong" answers and typos. I get that a kid can need a little more practice, but when it sets them back so terribly far, it takes all the joy of their successes away form them and leaves them devastated. Not good:(!

The developer, IXL Learning, indicated that the app's privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.

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The developer does not collect any data from this app.

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English Language Arts and Math Essential Standards

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The Arizona Department of Education (ADE) requests input and feedback from educators and the public regarding the identification of Essential Standards. These Essential Standards will receive heightened emphasis and reporting within their standards groups, or “clusters” through the annual Arizona Academic Standards Assessment (AASA) exam, beginning in the 2025-2026 school year. BACKGROUNDBeginning in November 2024, ADE organized an effort to identify Essential Standards for the annual AASA exams for grades three through eight.

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(Adopted December 2016)

The Arizona Mathematics Standards define the knowledge, understanding, and skills that need to be taught and learned so all students are ready to succeed in credit-bearing, college-entry courses, and/or in the workplace. The Arizona Mathematics Standards are the foundation to guide the construction and evaluation of mathematics programs in Arizona K-12 schools and the broader Arizona community. These standards were adopted by the Arizona State Board of Education in December of 2016.

Connections for Success (CFS) was developed after House Bill 2135 was passed in 2021. CFS focuses on high school math standards, specifically Algebra 1, Geometry and Algebra 2. Each document highlights a standard cluster and its vertical alignment to prior and upcoming standards.

Grades K-5 Standards

*New Updates to the Standards Docs - July 2018 | Intro. to the Arizona Mathematics Standards | Glossary

The Arizona Mathematics Progression Documents are a great place to start with curriculum mapping and scope and sequence. Please also reference the major and supporting content emphasis documents. These documents provide information that will assist you in how much instructional time you should spend on different clusters of math content and each grade or in each high school course.

Even though the Arizona Mathematics Standards have been reviewed and revised in 2016, it is suggested that you still utilized Common Core math support documents to assist with planning, curriculum design and professional development. Please make sure that you are analyzing the Arizona Mathematics Standards for alignment to the Common Core Math Standards. There are some differences between the Common Core and the Arizona Mathematics Standards. But support materials are still beneficial in planning and in getting to know the content standards.

Here are additional reliable and valid progression documents to assist your planning.

Progression Documents for the Common Core Math Standards The Common Core State Standards in mathematics were built on progressions: narrative documents describing the progression of a topic across a number of grade levels informed both by research on children's cognitive development and by the logical structure of mathematics. These documents were spliced together and then sliced into grade-level standards. Progression documents can explain why standards are sequenced the way they are, point out cognitive difficulties and pedagogical solutions, and give more detail on particularly tricky areas of the mathematics. Progression documents should be useful in teacher preparation and professional development, organizing curriculum, and writing textbooks. Progressions documents also provide a transmission mechanism between mathematics education research and standards. Research about learning progressions produces knowledge that can be transmitted through the progressions document to the standards revision process; questions and demands on standards writing can be transmitted back the other way into research questions.

*Please contact Eboney Mckinney for an accessible version.

Grades 6-8 Standards
(adopted during the Fifty-third Legislature Second Regular Session, 2018)
Notify Parents if students were not proficient on the statewide assessment for Math.

HB 2477 requires LEAs to provide parents with written notice that includes:

1. What the student's mathematics deficiencies were on the statewide Math exam and;

2. How those deficiencies are being addressed through services provided to the student which could include supplemental instruction and any supporting programs designed to address the student's specific mathematics deficiencies. LEAs are required to provide notice to parents regarding the Spring statewide assessment results by the first half of the second quarter of this school year if students scored in the minimally proficient or partially proficient range on statewide Math assessment. LEA's can identify how below mastery on the scoring category is being addressed through Tier 1 (first instruction), Tier 2 (supplemental instruction), and possibly through supporting programs which could include but is not limited to after school tutoring.

The ADE Assessment and K-12 Standards Team have created a sample letter that you can customize with your school letterhead and site-specific supplemental instruction and/or supporting programs specific to the individual student. Understanding in Mathematics when a student understands a mathematical concept, they move fluidly between the concrete and abstract. There is evidence they are able to make sense of and justify mathematical connections. Evidence of understanding includes connections among:
♦Verbal or written reasoning ♦Pictorial representations ♦Real-world application ♦Procedures/Computation
*New Updates to the Standards Docs - July 2018 | Intro. to the Arizona Mathematics Standards | Glossary *Please contact Eboney Mckinney for accessible versions.
The Arizona Mathematics Standards are:

Focused in coherent progressions across grades K-12

Aligned with college and workforce expectations.

Inclusive of rigorous content and applications of knowledge through higher-order thinking.

Research and evidence-based.

The Arizona Department of Education K-12 Standards Section is providing planning guidance regarding the major and supporting clusters found within the Arizona Mathematics Standards, Adopted 2016. The Math Workgroup has made changes to the content emphasis documents (below) based on what we have learned since 2010. Please consider the following designations when planning an instructional scope for the school year. The ADE is suggesting instructional time encompass 70% for Major Clusters at each grade level/course.
6-Algebra 2 AZ Mathematics Progression Documents
Thank you to the East Valley Mathematics Leaders Group and the Peoria District Math Team for completing the Arizona K-5 Mathematics Progression Documents. The East Valley Math Leaders met throughout the 2018-2019 year to complete the work on the 6-Algebra 2 progression documents.

The Arizona 6-Algebra 2 Progression Documents are in first draft! These progressions are living documents and will be updated when feedback from the field has been reviewed and agreed upon. The Arizona 6-Algebra 2 progression documents are one way to look at the progression of standards across grade levels and courses. The specific pathway that was utilized in these progressions is a progression around and through Number sense. Number Sense is the "big idea" across all the progressions. Number Sense then has pathways into Statistics, Expressions and Equations and Proportional Reasoning. Proportional Reasoning is giant and has pathways into Functions, Probability and Congruence/Similarity.

Please open the Progression document then click the link on each of the progressions to see how content progresses from 6th grade all the way through to Algebra 2.

*Please contact Eboney Mckinney for an accessible version.

Grades 9-12 Standards

*New Updates to the Standards Docs - July 2018 | Intro. to the Arizona Mathematics Standards | Glossary
High School Placemats
Thank you to Ryan Carle-Ogren from Sahuarita High School for completing the Arizona High School Mathematics Placemats.
6-Algebra 2 AZ Mathematics Progression Documents
Thank you to the East Valley Mathematics Leaders Group and the Peoria District Math Team for completing the Arizona K-5 Mathematics Progression Documents. The East Valley Math Leaders met throughout the 2018-2019 year to complete the work on the 6-Algebra 2 progression documents.

The Arizona 6-Algebra 2 Progression Documents are in first draft! These progressions are living documents and will be updated when feedback from the field has been reviewed and agreed upon. The Arizona 6-Algebra 2 progression documents are one way to look at the progression of standards across grade levels and courses. The specific pathway that was utilized in these progressions is a progression around and through Number sense. Number Sense is the "big idea" across all the progressions. Number Sense then has pathways into Statistics, Expressions and Equations and Proportional Reasoning. Proportional Reasoning is giant and has pathways into Functions, Probability and Congruence/Similarity.

Please open the Progression document then click the link on each of the progressions to see how content progresses from 6th grade all the way through to Algebra 2.

The Arizona Department of Education K-12 Standards Section is providing planning guidance regarding the major and supporting clusters found within the Arizona Mathematics Standards, Adopted 2016. The Math Workgroup has made changes to the content emphasis documents based on what we have learned since 2010. Please consider the following designations when planning an instructional scope for the school year. The ADE is suggesting instructional time encompass 70% for Major Clusters at each grade level/course.
*Please contact Eboney Mckinney for an accessible version.
Math Resources

Achieve the Core has a Coherence Map for mathematics from kindergarten through Algebra 2. Standards relate to one another, both within and across grades. The Coherence Map is an interactive website that illustrates the coherent structure of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics K-High School. This site provides one representation of how the standards are connected to each other and is derived from this wiring diagram. A great video is linked to the site that illustrates the importance of coherence in mathematics. The Coherence Map shows the connections between common core state standards for mathematics.
Math Resources
Math Partnerships

ADE has officially partnered with the Center for Recruitment and Retention of Mathematics Teachers (the CRR) until August 31st, 2024. Because of this partnership, all Arizona Educators are able to participate in free math professional learning opportunities through the CRR. Use this link to register for a session today!

**The views and opinions expressed in any third-party resource do not necessarily reflect those of the Arizona Department of Education (ADE) and do not imply an endorsement by ADE.
Fourth Credit High School Guidance and Standards

The development of the fourth credit guidance and standards began in January 2017 under the guidance of the Arizona Department of Education. A statewide committee of high school mathematics teachers, district Mathematics Specialists and Professors and Mathematicians from Institutes of Higher Education reviewed research and other state standards to create the general guidance and standards related to fourth-credit mathematics. The Quantitative Reasoning and Precalculus Standards are also aligned to the high school Plus Standards. Standards outline what a student needs to know, understand, and be able to do by the end of each grade. Standards build across grade levels in a progression of increasing understanding and through a range of cognitive demand levels. Standards are adopted at the state level by the State Board of Education (A.R.S. §§15-701 and 15-701.01). Arizona retains authority to approve and modify academic standards; there is no federal law requiring the adoption of specific standards. The fourth-credit standards for Quantitative Reasoning and Precalculus are not board adopted since fourth credit mathematics courses are a local control decision.

These documents represent guidance only for schools and districts. It is a local control decision what courses are offered in a four-credit mathematics pathway.

Fourth Credit Math General Guidance (Sept. 2018) Arizona Precalculus Standards (Sept. 2018) Arizona Quantitative Reasoning Standards (Sept. 2018)
*Please contact Eboney Mckinney for an accessible version.
Summary of Revisions & Planning Documents

Archived Newsletters
2022
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Contact Information: Eboney McKinney, Director of Math and Ed. Tech | Phone: 602.364.4030

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Explore this research-based framework for creating inclusive classrooms that cater to all learning styles. The CAST website offers practical guidelines and tools to get started.

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Differentiated Instruction Strategies: Tiered Assignments - TeachHUB

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