Unlocking Mathematical Potential: Exploring the Features of Carnegie Learning's MATHia
Carnegie Learning's MATHia is an innovative AI-driven math coaching solution designed to provide students with a personalized and engaging learning experience. Rooted in research from Carnegie Mellon University and decades of classroom experience, MATHia aims to make learning meaningful, build confidence, and prepare students for the future. This article delves into the key features of MATHia, highlighting its benefits for both students and teachers.
Personalized Learning with AI-Powered Coaching
MATHia stands out from other AI-based learning programs due to its unique approach to artificial intelligence. It employs machine learning to analyze how students interact with and think about math, going beyond just evaluating the final answer.
MATHia mirrors a human math coach by delivering students real-time feedback and support, with AI trained to recognize why students make the mistakes they do. It helps students understand what they know and why they know it and guides them through their thinking so they get it right next time. This allows MATHia to provide hyper-individualized support, identifying specific areas where a student is struggling and offering targeted assistance. For example, when a student makes a mistake while multiplying fractions, MATHia's AI can pinpoint the exact misunderstanding, whether it's related to common denominators or the difference between multiplying and adding fractions. Giving students conceptual knowledge of where these procedures come from helps them identify and carry out the correct procedure.
Students stay engaged with MATHia’s personalized just-in-time feedback and contextual hints. The Skillometer is another example of how MATHia individualizes student feedback. In this tool, students must master a set of skills to demonstrate proficiency in a particular area. As students solve problems, the AI notes their problem-solving preferences and is flexible enough to support them-though it may steer them to a more efficient method if one exists.
Engaging Instructional Strategies
MATHia features five different instructional strategies that you will experience as you work through the problems. The five types of instructional tools are balanced to make sure you fully engage and develop your math skills.
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- Explore Tools: These tools give you the opportunity to investigate mathematical concepts, search for patterns, and look for structure in ways that make sense to you. These tools also provide optional supports for you as you answer questions and solve problems.
- Animations: Animations provide you with an opportunity to watch, pause, and re-watch demonstrations of various mathematical concepts.
- Classification Tools: Classification Tools allow you to apply your mathematical understanding by categorizing answers based on similarities. These tools also give you a way to demonstrate proficiency in recognizing patterns in problem structure.
- Problem-Solving Tools: Problem-Solving Tools give you highly individualized and self-paced instruction that adapts to your exact needs to deepen your conceptual understanding of mathematics. Through adaptive learning technologies, you engage in reasoning and sense-making.
- Worked Examples: Worked Examples give you a tool that helps you to question your understanding, make connections with the steps, and ultimately self explain.
Real-Time Data and Actionable Insights for Teachers
MATHia provides teachers with real-time data and actionable insights to effectively guide student learning. Effectively guide student learning with MATHia’s real-time data. The Session, Skills, Student Detail, and Standards Reports provide a day-to-day view of student progress, while the APLSE Report accurately predicts how far students will progress by the end of the year.
The platform’s improved design and functionality have made it more flexible and user-friendly, benefiting both students and teachers. LiveLab, our live facilitation tool, provides in-the-moment, actionable data, such as when students are working or idle. Real-time alerts notify you when students need extra support and lets students know when they’ve reached math milestones.
Teachers encounter various situations when students get stuck as they use learning software. Some may seek assistance for minor issues, while others may err on the other side of the spectrum and not request help at all. MATHia helps teachers identify these students. For example, a teacher can see that a student has a life preserver icon by her status-that means she’s experiencing unproductive struggle and needs help ASAP. She likely won’t master the current skills without the teacher stepping in.
Predictive Reporting with the APLSE Report
The Adaptive Personalized Learning Score (APLSE) Report is an AI-driven student report containing data you won’t find with any other online math coaching software. The APLSE Report predicts how students will perform on end-of-course assessments. If a student’s APLSE score is 70% or higher, it can be safely predicted they will pass end-of-course assessments.
Adaptability and User-Friendly Design
MATHia is designed for everyone. With distinct user experiences for middle and high school students, MATHia is a key component of our Middle School and High School Math Solutions. The platform’s improved design and functionality have made it more flexible and user-friendly, benefiting both students and teachers. Math teacher Wagner Pierre draws inspiration from Bruce Lee’s Jeet Kune Do philosophy, which emphasizes adaptability and practicality. He applies the same mindset in the classroom, pairing Carnegie Learning’s Interactive Assignments with MATHia sessions throughout the week.
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Integration and Certification
1EdTech has testing programs that enable products to be certified compliant with specific standards and features of the standards. For technology suppliers, participation in the 1EdTech certification process is the fastest and most cost-effective way to achieve product integrations. For institutions, ensuring that your educational technology tools are 1EdTech certified is the best way to establish a plug-and-play ecosystem, allowing your tools and content to work together seamlessly, giving you more choice, and reducing your total cost of ownership.
Proven Results and Research-Based Approach
Founded at Carnegie Mellon University, everything we do is based on rigorous research on how students learn best and decades of experience putting it into practice in real classrooms. A 2021 study by Student Achievement Partners found that using MATHia in middle school led to better outcomes in Algebra 1.
Building Confidence and Shifting Perspectives
He added that the new tools have not only improved efficiency but also shifted how students view mathematics. “The biggest change I’ve seen is confidence,” Pierre said. Students see their progress toward multiple skills on MATHia’s Progress Meter.
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