Product Development Updates

• Added some new troubleshooting strategies for odd & even numbers
• Made it possible for families to switch plan-types (with changes taking effect at the end of the current billing cycle)
• Misc bug fixes

• Made a few more improvements to some Kindergarten skills

• Overhauled Grade 2 learning materials: added in-context guides, inline visual fallbacks, and new intermediary skills for more incremental skill-building.
• Numerous improvements to some of our Kindergarten skills
• Misc bug fixes

• New: Educator Dashboard for school-district use.

• Improved overall system performance in both speed and reliability.
• Numerous misc bug fixes

• Ability to reask the same kind of question a learner just answered, when they struggle (to give the learner a chance to apply what the system just walked them through).

• Individual learner sign-in: Families can now create unique PINs for each learner, allowing them to sign in for learning sessions only. By signing in this way, learners no longer have access to account settings, payment information, or other learner profiles.
• Misc bug fixes

• Overhauled Grade 1 learning materials: added in-context guides, inline visual fallbacks, and new intermediary skills for more incremental skill-building
• Numerous misc bug fixes

• Overhauled Kindergarten learning materials: added in-context guides, inline visual fallbacks, and new intermediary skills for better incremental learning
• Numerous misc bug fixes

• Expanded in-context guide coverage to additional math skills

• Enhanced in-context “guides” for rounding

• Numerous bug fixes in our learning materials

• New: Introduced in-context “guides” feature: human-tutor-like commentary, suggestions, and demonstrations, offering increased pedagogical support for learners (initial rollout to select math skills)
• Misc bug fixes

• Created several new troubleshooting strategies to help learners better understand the need for borrowing in subtraction crossing a range of ten
• Misc bug fixes

• Divided several complex skills into smaller, more manageable steps for easier learning
• Implemented new troubleshooting strategies for level 4 & 5 math skills
• Introduced a new skill using ten and one block manipulatives for number building

• New: Added support for "Rekenrek" manipulatives: to aid with addition & subtraction (particularly when crossing a range of ten), as well as develop number-sense more generally
• Misc bug fixes

• Improved the system's handling of wrong answers for fractional addition & subtraction (particular for fractions with different denominators)

• Improved our "need help" feature for questions involving the arrangement of elements
• Small text-to-voice feature improvements

• New: Added Grade 6 core arithmetic support
• Fixed a number of misc bugs

• New: Digital manipulatives: allowing learners to answer questions using blocks, shapes, hops, and more - limited initial integration that will be expanded on over the next few months
• Added a number of new troubleshooting strategies to help learners understand Fractions
• Fixed a few automated email issues

• Added a number of new troubleshooting strategies to help learners understand odd & even numbers
• Misc bug fixes

• Improved core system stability
• Numerous bug fixes

• Improved our procedural sequences for long-division
• Added new troubleshooting strategies supporting long-division
• Numerous bug fixes

• System stability improvements
• Numerous misc bug fixes

• Created some additional socratic explorations of division

• Small improvements to some of our troubleshooting sequences for Grades 1 & 2

• Improved our system's socratic explorations of division
• Misc bug fixes

• Added deeper integration of the workpad answer-input feature into long subtraction
• Numerous misc bug fixes

• Created new nested troubleshooting options for the system to trigger in certain cases when learners need additional help

• New: Parent feature allowing overriding max questions per learning session for each individual learner

• Numerous misc bug fixes

• Improved several of our system's troubleshooting strategies
• Simplified the introduction of repeating decimals
• Misc bug fixes

• Improved the system's troubleshooting for long-subtraction and geometric pattern-detection
• Added interactive aids for finding the lowest value evenly divisable by 2 numbers
• Misc bug fixes

• Improvements to our socratic explorations for rounding

• Added several new troubleshooting strategies for reducing fractions
• Improved the practice sequences for reducing fractions

• New: Input error detection
• Small but important improvement to initial learner-assessment stage
• Misc improvements to several of our content factories
• Numerous misc bug fixes

• Improvements to our new Word-pad question/answer-format

• New: Added 2 new intermediate skills to better ease learners into understanding remainders of division
• Misc bug fixes

• Improved the socratic exploration for remainders of division
• Added Apple Pay as another payment method option
• Misc bug fixes

• New: Work-pad question/answer-format: allowing learners to do their rough work directly on Grokkoli
• Misc bug fixes

• Improvemed several practice activities in kindergarten
• Small tweaks to the order in which certain math concepts are introduced to learners in kindergarten and Grade 1
• Mixed bug fixes

• Improvemed several socratic explorations in Grade 2
• Small adjustments to the placement of certain skills within the overall curriculum
• Improved the "operation build up" troubleshooting strrategy for multiplication
• Mixed bug fixes

• Made the learning-progress screen appear at the begining of new learning sessions when learners missed it at the end of their previous session

• Improvements to Grokkoli's overall management of skill-fluency for learners
• Misc bug fixes

• Improvements to the remediation flows for partial-product multiplication
• Fixed a potential crash on the subscriptions page

• Improvements to the exploration sequences for partial-product multiplication
• Misc bug fixes

• Improvements to the new learning-acheivements feature
• Misc bug fixes

• Misc bug fixes

• New in-lesson learning-achievements feature providing additional encouragement for learners

• Numerous improvements to the generation of incorrect answers appearing as multiple-choice options
• Misc bug fixes

• New math-fact monitor to detect when learners are calculating instead of remembering

• Added 3 new large-number skills
• Misc bug fixes & improvements

• Added 2 new subitization skills
• Small improvements to some socratic explorations in Grades 3 and 4
• Misc bug fixes

• Improved our math-fact reinforcement activities
• Improved some of our Grade 2 practice sequences
• Misc bug fixes

• New flip-card question-format for math-fact memorization activities
• Misc bug fixes

• Added progress-bars for math-fact memorization to Learning-Progress page
• Misc bug fixes

• Improved some of the troubleshooting strategies for learners struggling to recognize odd & even numbers

• Added one more strategy for helping kids memorize their addition & subtraction math-facts

• Improved some socratic explorations in Grades 4 & 5
• Added a few more strategies for helping kids memorize their math-facts

• Streamlined some lessons in Grade 2
• Added some new remediation excercises supporting math-fact memorization activities

• Lowered the incidence of multiple-choice questions appearing during the initial learner-assessment stage
• Misc bug fixes

• Improved question-variety for math-fact practice and reinforcement activities
• Misc bug fixes

• New: Added Grade 5 core arithmetic support
• Misc bug fixes

• Small improvements to our initial learner-assessment
• Misc bug fixes

• Made some tweaks to our monitor looking out for signs that a learner might giving up on trying to answer correctly
• Fixed a bug on the subscriptions page

• Improved some of the troubleshooting approaches for operations involving fractions
• Misc bug fixes

• Made all new lessons skippable provided the learner is able to quickly answer one or more related questions
• Misc bug fixes

• Improved learning-retention checks spanning multiple learning sessions
• Improved the "fraction of numbers" concept exploration
• Reduced the text-heaviness of certain concept explorations in Grade 1
• Misc bug fixes

• Added a new way of demonstrating the equivalence of reduced/unreduced fractions using pies
• Made a small (but frequent) learning-flow improvement
• Fixed an issue affecting new accounts
• Misc bug fixes

• Added new operator-recognition checks
• Added 3 new toubleshooting strategies helping learners recognize & avoid wrong answers that are wildly out of range

• Improved learning-session recap emails
• Misc bug fixes

• Misc bug fixes

• Updated the math-fact memorization activities to no longer block progress through the math curriculum
• Improved troubleshooting sequences for fractional addition & subtraction
• Misc bug fixes

• More improvements to our new concept explorations

• Ongoing improvements to our new concept explorations

• New: "Arrange" answer-inputs: requiring learners to match different selectable options with their corresponding elements on the screen
• New: Short explanatory "video-experiences": generated on-the-fly by our system to better convey new concepts to learners
• These video experience have been added to several explanations belonging to Grades 3 & 4
• Improved question-variety for certain concepts
• Misc bug fixes

• Improved learning-session recap emails

• Improved the overarching sequencing of learning multiplication (with math-fact memorization introduced a bit earlier in the curriculum)
• Improved a few other explanatory sequences (including adding supporting visualizations)
• Fixed a bug involving division questions being presented during math-fact memorization drill even if they hadn't yet learnt basic division

• Improved the overarching sequencing of learning multiplication (with math-fact memorization introduced a bit earlier in the curriculum)
• Improved a few other explanatory sequences (including adding supporting visualizations)
• Fixed a bug involving division questions being presented during math-fact memorization drill even if they hadn't yet learnt basic division

• New: Learning-session recap pages allowing parents & teachers to review all the questions a learner completed in a session (accessible from the "Learning Progress" page)
• Fixed a bug in the text-to-speech feature affecting certain iPhone & iPad devices
• Misc bug fixes

• New: Added a "need help?" prompt that appears for learners after the expected time to answer a question has elapsed
• Made the introduction messages for new skills more child-readable
• Improved some of the wrong-answer options in certain multiple-choice questions
• Fixed some troubleshooting sequences
• Fixed some minor visual bugs affecting new-user onboarding

• Improved lessons for long-arithmetic
• Improved some of the troubleshooting pathways for multi-step questions
• Fixed a crash
• Fixed some bugs affecting new-user onboarding

• Improved the text-to-speech for fractions and mixed numbers
• Fixed some bugs in the speech of several learning-objectives

• Improved the algorithm generating the initial math-skill assessment for new learners

• Improved the variability of math questions variation training
• Added the learning-session options to the text-to-voice feature
• Fixed some bugs inpacting the reinforcement of certain math-facts

• Improved one of the troubleshooting strategies the system employs when learner get multiplication questions wrong
• New: Parents/teachers can now select lessons to add to a learner's lesson-plan on Grokkoli

• Re-enabled the confusion-monitors

• Improved the learning-objectives page

• Improved the learning-progress page (including % completion of the learner's current Grade-level)
• New: Added weekly learning-progress summary emails
• Re-enabled the account-settings page (+ added a global toggle for enabling/disabling all email notifications from Grokkoli)
• Fixed the "blue-block" bug

• Added back lesson-progress & correct-answers to the main questions page
• Added back "take-a-break" prompts
• New: Added Grade-level filters to the learning-objectives page
• Fixed several crashes

• Added back Grade 4 math-content with new support for mixed numbers + better handling of decimals
• Added additional math-content in Grades 1-3 including mini math-fact recall drills
• Improved some of our new troubleshooting sequences
• Overhauled the learning-objectives page
• New: Built input field defaults allowing learners to more easily enter fractions and mixed number answers
• Fixed several crashes

Major (end-to-end) overhaul of our math-tutoring-system

• Improved lesson-order/progression
• Improved question variety
• Improved confusion-monitoring
• Improved math-fact memorization sequences
• New troubleshooting sequences
• Numbers and symbols in math-quesions now subtly animate in sync the voice on audio-play
• Greater system reliability (fewer bugs over the medium-to-long-term)
• Note: Math-content is temporarily reduced from K-7 to K-3 (we plan on adding back Grades over the next 3-6 months)