Content Update: Summer 2022 updates to 3rd, 4th and 6th grade math courses!
We’re excited to share that enhancements to several of our math courses were released in summer 2022. Edits were made to this content so it better aligns with grade standards, and to make sure students receive the right amount of challenge for their grade level. One consequence of these content updates is that it may impact some of your students’ Mastery percentages.
When we add new or remove old content, student Mastery percentages might change because the overall number of skills available in a course changes.
- For example, instead of mastering 90 out of 100 skills, after an update a student might have now mastered 90 out of 110, reducing their Mastery percentage from 90% to 82%.
- With these specific course updates, we expect that student Mastery percentages will change very slightly.
- The maximum changes are listed below for each course, with the highest possible change in one single course being a 7.8% decrease.
The details about the specific changes to these courses are listed below:
3rd grade
Course: Third Grade Math
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- Maximum Potential Mastery Percentage Decrease: 0.7%
- Removed:
- Exercise: Understand numerators and denominators
4th grade
Course: Fourth Grade Math
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- Maximum Potential Mastery Percentage Decrease: 1.3%
- Removed:
- Exercise: Compare multi-digit numbers word problems
- Exercise: Order decimals and fractions in different forms
6th grade
Course: 6th Grade Math
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- Maximum Potential Mastery Percentage Decrease: 7.8%
- Added:
- Exercise: Analyze relationships between variables
- Exercise: Benchmark percents
- Exercise: Decompose area with triangles
- Exercise: Find percents visually
- Exercise: Interpret fraction division
- Exercise: Meaning of absolute value
- Removed:
- Exercise: Relate fractions, decimals, and percents
- Exercise: Convert percents to fractions
- Exercise: Convert fractions to percents
- Exercise: Convert decimals to percents
- Exercise: Convert percents to decimals
- Exercise: Multiplying decimals like 4x0.6 (standard algorithm)
- Exercise: Number opposites challenge
- Exercise: GCF & LCM word problems
- Exercise: Identify equations, expressions, and inequalities
- Exercise: Area challenge
- Exercise: Volume with cubes with fraction lengths
- Exercise: Data set warm-up
Course: 6th grade (Eureka Math/EngageNY)
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- Maximum Potential Mastery Percentage Decrease: 6.6%
- Added:
- Exercise: Analyze relationships between variables
- Exercise: Benchmark percents
- Exercise: Decompose area with triangles
- Exercise: Find percents visually
- Exercise: Interpret fraction division
- Exercise: Meaning of absolute value
- Removed:
- Exercise: Relate fractions, decimals, and percents
- Exercise: Convert percents to fractions
- Exercise: Convert fractions to percents
- Exercise: Convert decimals to percents
- Exercise: Convert percents to decimals
- Exercise: Multiplying decimals like 4x0.6 (standard algorithm)
- Exercise: Number opposites challenge
- Exercise: Identify equations, expressions, and inequalities
- Exercise: Area challenge
- Exercise: Volume with cubes with fraction lengths
- Exercise: Data set warm-up
Course: 6th Grade Illustrative Math
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- Maximum Potential Mastery Percentage Decrease: 4.9%
- Added:
- Exercise: Analyze relationships between variables
- Exercise: Benchmark percents
- Exercise: Decompose area with triangles
- Exercise: Find percents visually
- Exercise: Interpret fraction division
- Exercise: Meaning of absolute value
- Removed:
- Exercise: Relate fractions, decimals, and percents
- Exercise: Convert percents to fractions
- Exercise: Convert fractions to percents
- Exercise: Convert decimals to percents
- Exercise: Convert percents to decimals
- Exercise: Multiplying decimals like 4x0.6 (standard algorithm)
- Exercise: Volume with cubes with fraction lengths
- Exercise: Data set warm-up
Course: Get Ready for 7th Grade
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- Maximum Potential Mastery Percentage Decrease: 4.8%
- Added:
- Exercise: Analyze relationships between variables
- Exercise: Benchmark percents
- Exercise: Decompose area with triangles
- Removed:
- Video: Dependent & independent variables
- Video: Percent word problem: 100 is what percent of 80?
- Video: Solving percent problems
- Video: Intro to negative numbers
- Video: Number opposites challenge problems
- Exercise: Number opposites challenge
Course: Get Ready for Algebra 1
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- Maximum Potential Mastery Percentage Decrease: 1.1%
- Removed:
- Exercise: Identify equations, expressions, and inequalities
Course: Pre-algebra
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- Maximum Potential Mastery Percentage Decrease: 3.3%
- Added:
- Exercise: Analyze relationships between variables
- Exercise: Benchmark percents
- Exercise: Find percents visually
- Removed:
- Exercise: Relate fractions, decimals, and percents
- Exercise: Convert percents to fractions
- Exercise: Convert fractions to percents
- Exercise: Convert decimals to percents
- Exercise: Convert percents to decimals
- Exercise: Identify equations, expressions, and inequalities
Course: Arithmetic
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- Maximum Potential Mastery Percentage Decrease: 0.5%
- Added:
- Video: Dividing a whole number by a fraction with reciprocal
- Video: Introduction to negative numbers
- Video: Meaning of a reciprocal
- Video: Order of operations introduction
- Exercise: Powers of fractions and decimals
- Removed:
- Video: Intro to order of operations
- Video: Intro to negative numbers
- Exercise: Multiplying decimals like 4x0.6 (standard algorithm)
Course: Basic Geometry
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- Maximum Potential Mastery Percentage Decrease: 0.8%
- Added:
- Video: Area of quadrilateral with 2 parallel sides
- Exercise: Decompose area with triangles
- Article: Surface area versus volume
- Removed:
- Exercise: Area challenge
As always, we are all ears to your thoughts and questions. Please share any content feedback in the Content Requests and Feedback Community Forum.
Happy learning and happy teaching!