Jordan Cooper

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3. Update: New way for skills to count as "Practiced"

This had the opposite of the described effect for my students. They used to try on every question, when they were trying to get a streak of a certain length. Now when they get one wrong, they don't...

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3. 10 in a row

Personal experience: A few years ago when practice exercises were "get some number correct in a row" my students would try to do well on every single question, because even if they got the last one...

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3. After finishing a practice topic, have a do again button.

There used to be a button at the end of every practice exercise that said something like "try again" but they removed it. I used it all the time! And I'm not talking about a "reset" type of button ...

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3. Reading the text for my early readers

This sounds like a good feature. You might not need it, though. Every Windows computer I've owned has had a screen reading preinstalled (I assume for blind or partially blind users) and I would not...

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3. Intuitive explanation of Addition, Multiplication, Division and Exponents

I don't have any help to offer in coming up with ways to teach these intuitively, but I think it would be amazing if it were possible. Got my upvote.

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3. Geometric Series section does NOT BELONG in Polynomial Factorization in Algebra 2

As a teacher who uses Khan Academy heavily for my Algebra 2 class, I share this viewpoint. Geometric series are wonderful, and I suppose the formula contains a piece that is basically a binomial ti...