Product Development Updates

• 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)