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You may think that timed assignments can increase math anxiety, but using a timer in your classroom can actually increase math performance in your students. To help prepare students for future testing and provide you with an opportunity to understand your students knowledge, ASSISTments has developed a new Assign Time feature!

The ASSISTments Foundation (ASSISTments) with partners Teaching Lab and WestEd, is pleased to announce our recent award of a five-year $8 million Education Innovation and Research (EIR) Mid-Phase Project grant.

ASSISTments announced the winners of the first MathNet Competition. Three university machine learning research teams to design AI enabled technology to analyze student math work to provide learning insights to math teachers.

Take a look at what’s new! At the end of the year we shared some exciting news about changes we’re making to the student experience, now you can see it for yourself.

In today’s post-pandemic math classroom, teachers are finding ways to help students in showing empathy, maintaining relationships, and making responsible decisions all while teaching fractions. It can definitely be a daunting task but is one made easier with the use of ASSISTments Teacher.

On December 13, 2022, Cristina Heffernan, ASSISTments Executive Director, and Dr. Denise Barrett, ASSISTments Tutoring Program & Partnerships Manager, presented at the Department of Education's Education Innovation and Research Interactive Webinar. Cristina and Denise discussed ASSISTments' work to use our technology platform to support in-school tutoring programs with a focus on COVID learning loss recovery. Watch the webinar replay!

As a high school math teacher, I made a promise to myself that I would always uplift and encourage my students when they struggle. I’d remind them that math is a process and learning is a part of the fun. I’d try multiple strategies and ask them “Where do you think we should start?” to provide them with autonomy in their learning process. As I moved into coaching and leadership roles, I was intentional to bring these practices to the forefront of my teachers and leaders minds. 

2023 is nearly here and we have some cool updates coming! You’ll see some simple changes that make the ASSISTments experience more streamlined and other enhancements that will help you customize the experience for your students.