Minutes and Puzzles~ 6 min

Puzzles

Students collect puzzles after they successfully complete a new level, meaning their puzzle count increases as they master new content.

Students can see how many puzzles they've collected and how long they've played this week in their toolbar.

They can also go into their history to see their total puzzles collected and Objectives conquered for the year.

Minutes

Minutes provide a count of how long a student was logged into ST Math, whether from home, school, or wherever logged in. Meeting target minutes is one of the primary goals for a good implementation. By showing the minutes for students, classes, schools, and districts, ST Math allows educators to track how well they are implementing the program.

Class puzzle and minutes are easily accessed on the My Classes page. If you open one of your classes, you can see students' This Week, Last Week, and Average Week minutes and puzzles. You can use the sort feature to sort students by Average Minutes and Average Puzzles. To learn about how to use all the data provided in your Educator Experience, go to the Understanding My Data module in the After Four to Six Weeks Unit.

But generally, how many minutes and puzzles should you expect students to collect?

While research is clear that every minute spent on ST Math is beneficial, try these recommended weekly goals to ensure that students problem-solve all year and cover the critical areas of their grade level,

Daily

Students can click on their name and choose the Progress tab to see their daily minutes and puzzles as well as those from this week, last week, and average and which days they played.

Weekly

Students can also see their weekly progress in the top-right corner of their screens.  This students has played for 58 minutes and has solved 31 puzzles.

When students beat a level, they collect its puzzles.  Here, the student collects seven puzzles:

Just by glancing in the top-right corner, students can track their progress for the current week.  By clicking there, they can get more detail about the previous week and their averages.

Weekly metrics make it easy for you and your students to compare their current week to their typical week, and of course to whatever goals you’ve set.

School Year

Of course, while weekly metrics are great for keeping track of each student’s pace and day-to-day progress, they don’t tell you what the student has done in total.

For that, the student just needs to pick History from the home screen.  This takes JiJi “back in time” to review past accomplishments.  Here, students can see the total number of puzzles collected for the school year, and the total number of Learning Objectives that have been completed.