Educators can monitor ST Math progress by two different metrics, Puzzle Goal Progress, and Journey Progress.
| Puzzle Goal Progress (PGP) | Journey Progress (JP) | |
| Description |
The Puzzle Goal Progress awards kids puzzles for anything they are prompted to play including Bonus Objectives and Assignments and Auto Assignments in the current term. Replayed levels do not count toward puzzle goal progress unless they were assigned by the teacher. |
The Journey Progress feature provides a metric for educators to determine how far a student has progressed this term in their currently assigned grade level journey. Assignments will count toward JP only if they are part of a student's current grade level Journey. |
| How is it calculated? | By taking the total number of puzzles completed in the current term and dividing by the total number of puzzles recommended for that grade. | By taking the total number of levels completed this term in the currently assigned journey and dividing by the total number of levels in the currently assigned journey. |
| What does it look like? |
This number will be shown as a rounded, whole number in percentage form and fraction form. The percentage will go over 100% when students have completed more puzzles than are recommended for that grade. Students can see this number in their account. |
This number will be shown as a rounded, whole number in percentage form and fraction form. The percentage will not go over 100%. When students have completed their assigned journey, a checkmark will replace the percentage. Students can see this number from their account. |
| Benefit of use |
PGP will show how many puzzles a school or a student has completed. The numerator (puzzles completed) can be larger than the denominator (puzzles recommended for that grade); therefore, the percentage could go over 100%. This could be a good metric for schools to use when:
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JP show of how much of the grade-level journey has been completed. This could be a good metric to use when:
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FAQ
Q: Which metric should I use?
A: At MIND, we provide both metrics since we recommend you use them together. Most schools will use the Puzzle Goal Progress for their bulletin boards and competitions since it gives credit to students for all the work they are completing. They also cross check it against Journey Progress to identify any students that are not experiencing enough content in their current grade. Seeing the two numbers next to each other will help tell a more complete story.
Q: Is it bad to have some off-grade-level objectives assigned?
A: In general, we want to get all students to thrive on-grade-level; however, ST Math has intentionally designed functionality to allow educators to customize the experience for their students. There are times when the best thing for a student is to give them some work not on their current grade level journey.
Q: Why are the two so different?
A: For most students, these two metrics will be very similar all year; however, if a student has been assigned many objectives below or above their grade level, the numbers may grow apart. A wide discrepancy between the two would be caused by a student completing a lot of content that is not in their assigned journey. As described above, most often this is not needed, but educators know their students best and have the freedom to have them work off-grade-level when academically appropriate. Similarly, since Journey Progress only reflects work completed in the student's currently assigned grade level, students who have their assigned grade level changed mid-year will see a change in their Journey Progress, but no decrease in their Puzzle Goal Progress.
Q: Why did my student that only worked on-grade-level reach 100% faster in Puzzle Goal Progress than they did Journey Progress? Shouldn’t those be the same?
A: The Puzzle Goal Progress is exactly that - a goal. A number of puzzles was set for each grade level that is how many puzzles a student should be able to finish in their school year, so it is not exactly the same as the actual total number of puzzles for their grade.