Please keep the World Of Math or create a replacement for this mission

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Robert Bostrom

21 de fevereiro de 2020 05:46

One of the main motivators that keeps me coming back to this website is this mission specially. It is extremely satisfying to see how many blocks you have filled versus how many you have left. For example, this is what mine looks like:

Seeing that everyday legitimately makes me proud.

With the new system, you lose the ability to really see just how far you've come. Sure, you get percentages based on each specific subject, but you have no sort of visual that shows every individual skill compared to one another in one central place.

This new system is not enough by itself. For example, I usually aim to get 100% on every unit test so I can have the entire unit at level 6 with all skills mastered. However, considering there is still no button to RESET the tests, I won't even bother to continue and restart the test if I make a small mistake early on. This usually occurs when the test is 10+ questions long. With the mission system, I'm able to target the skill that was with the question I messed up on and master it immediately. This gives me the satisfaction of having another block filled, level 6 on the unit, and I'm no longer stressing about having less than 100% on that unit test.

The missions and mastery system work well for the reason above. Since if you master a skill in a mission, you no longer need the unit test to master that specific skill. All the new system is doing is putting far, FAR more importance on the unit tests which is the most stressful part of learning things if you are OCD about having 100% on everything.

If you won't keep The World Of Math or offer a replacement, then I strongly urge you to atleast add a reset button to unit tests instead.

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eva.sevilla

24 de fevereiro de 2020 17:07
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Hi Robert,

Our team completely understands that the World of Math Mission has been an integral part of many of our users' time on Khan Academy. I am happy to say that any progress you have currently made on this Mission will still be viewable on the site even after the deprecation of Missions, so you can always view the progress you have made!

While we do not have an exact replacement for this Mission as of yet, I can assure you that this is something on our team's radar as we do understand the importance that this Mission has for many of our users.

Thank you very much for surfacing your thoughts on the removal of Missions and the World of Math Mission especially. In regards to your suggestion for a reset button, a member of our development team has commented on this suggestion on a community forum post you can find at this link: https://khanacademy.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/115001114611-Reset-Unit-Tests

Thank you again!
alexandra collins

7 de maio de 2020 00:13
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My family has a summer goal of "competing" on our math progress. We were planning to use the World of Math "mastered skills" as our baseline and completion measurements - we aren't sure how else to be fair among members of the family at different levels. Will we still be able to see total skills mastered after June?
Roy

21 de junho de 2020 13:42
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I would also like to add my username to a 'petition' to have a replacement of the World of Math mission. It was one of the best features of the website, especially as a self-learner.
Christopher Daniell

21 de julho de 2020 23:10
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Good Morning Khan Team, I also want to add my voice to the request to bring back the world of math mission.

As someone who has used this mission set up for quite some years i have found it extremely useful for myself and explaining to others about the khan system.

Please re introduce the world of math mission system.

thank you
evanfoss

3 de janeiro de 2021 07:19
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Please bring back the world of math. It had a more natural flow and the way it distributed questions was smarter.
geetus

11 de fevereiro de 2021 00:14
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I'm an adult learner who finished the World of Math mission a few years ago. Came back to Khan today and was disappointed to find that the whole mission system had been scrapped. Please bring it back!

I really liked not having to think about what area of math to study next -- just click one big fat button. It was sometimes very challenging when things were presented out of the conventional pedagogical order but it kept me interested.

Since I finished the mission more material has been added -- I'd like to tackle it in the same way.

And now that I think about it, maybe I should move on (hello, MIT OpenCourseware!) -- however, it would be very nice if you guys added more college-level material.
Martin Currie

22 de maio de 2021 12:31
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As a home education parent, we found the World of Math % value to be hugely motivational, going up 1% there was a big thing to be celebrated. Now it's gone it makes Khan even less self-motivating.
NahATX

2 de agosto de 2021 19:41
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Agreed.

I don't personally miss missions themselves, but I really do miss the 'World of Math' completion percentage. It is a goal of mine to complete all the math on Khan Academy, and the easiest way to track my progress is having one completion percentage for the entire subject. It's very motivating!

Maybe have single completion percentage for each main topic area (math, science, computing, etc.) on Khan Academy viewable on your profile?
carol

20 de abril de 2022 16:48
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