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3. y-intercept - Is it a point or a number?

I've always referred to them as a single number but I don't see it as wrong to refer to the full point coordinates. It may help students to connect that it's just another point on the line (many of...

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3. Attn: You have severe navigational disorder in the math series:

Agreed. KA serves as a useful tool for me as a maths teacher guiding my students through a somewhat logical sequence of quiz activities (which also mesh with a lot of non-KA learning of maths). Thi...

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3. Consumer Math

Agreed. This is the major omission I have noticed when using KA for my students in Australia. The Australian mathematics curriculum includes consumer maths (including simple and compound interest) ...

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3. Mastery Challenges

I'm pretty sure that this is a feature, not an omission. After the practice set (where you are told which tool to use) the next level of learning is recognising when a particular tool would be usef...

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3. Where is the grid??

Hi Dustin,Thanks for your reply and information.For those who have a very teacher-directed approach, this probably works very well because students only do questions inside Khan Academy when direct...

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3. Can I export Student Status Grid?

For more than a tiny class of students, screen shots are unusable as a way of getting data from the system. What many of us have been crying out for (for years) is what used to be available - a sim...

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3. Where is the grid??

OK, I'll bite - where is this fabled new grid? The only thing I can find is the activity log, which gives an anaemic view of recent activity with no ability to drill down and see more detail:The ol...

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3. Is it possible to have question prompts and answers to be read aloud to the user?

For the text only elements, there are various browser plugins that will read aloud any website (including Khan Academy questions)

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3. Where is the grid??

Thanks Doug Massey. At our school, we're using Mathspace, which also has a similar tool available. Watching Khan Academy pedagogically self-destruct over the last few years has been very sad. They ...

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3. Where is the grid??

Lisa Krueger - this has been in the pipeline for two years now. Is there any sign of it going live?