iLearn Math (iPASS) delivers instruction and practice, completely automated. It is prescriptive, meaning topics are not manually selected, but rather students are guided to just the what they need to learn starting with the earliest gap in knowledge identified in the placement process. Students begin with Placement Tests, which identify a student's lowest math gap. After placement, students can skip over any content they already know by passing Challenge Tests. When a student does pass a Lesson Challenge Quiz, the student will complete multimedia Lesson Instruction and complete Lesson Practice and Mastery tests. Students advance by challenging past (i.e., skipping) the math they know, and mastering the math they don’t. To read a more detailed description of how iLearn Math works, click the grey bar below to view an expanded description.
iLearn Math is a mastery-based program designed to remediate student gaps at all levels. Students advance through the program sequentially by either exemption or mastery. At every level of iLearn Math, students can exempt content they already know by passing challenge tests.
A level in iLearn Math typically contains two Units. Each Unit has a Unit Challenge Test and a Unit Mastery Test. A Unit has several Chapters. Each Chapter has a Chapter Challenge Test, Chapter Practice, and Chapter Mastery Test. A Chapter has about five Lessons. Each Lesson has a Lesson Challenge Quiz, Lesson Instruction, and a Lesson Practice. Some Lessons also include a Lesson Mixed Practice that covers prior lessons within the Chapter.
At the beginning of each Unit is a Unit Challenge Test. Scoring 90%+ correct on a Unit Challenge Test exempts all content in that Unit and skips the student to the next Unit Challenge Test. Scoring less than 90% correct on a Unit Challenge Test moves the student into the first Chapter's Chapter Challenge Test. Passing the Chapter Challenge Test by missing no more than one (1) question, the student skips to the next Chapter's Challenge Test. Missing more than one question on the Chapter Challenge Test moves the student to the first Lesson's Lesson Challenge Quiz.
Passing the Lesson Challenge Quiz by missing no more than two (2) questions the student will skip to the next Lesson's Challenge Quiz. Missing more than two questions the student begins the Lesson Instruction.
Lesson Instruction is typically three to four pages of brief, multimedia presentations in a "show and tell" format. After viewing Lesson Instruction the student moves into Lesson Instruction Practice. If the student answers two to three questions incorrectly he/she will re-watch the Lesson Instruction and attempt the Lesson Instruction Practice again. When the student passes the Lesson Instruction, he/she will move forward to Lesson Practice.
In Lesson Practice a student must correctly answer a total number of
questions in sequence. The requirement varies by lesson. If a Lesson Practice has six questions, the student must answer at least six questions correctly. If the student correctly answers the first five questions but misses the sixth question, one correct question is deducted and the student has a total of four questions correct and will need to answer at least two more questions correctly to complete Lesson Practice.
Some Lessons include a Lesson Mixed Practice, which mixes questions from previously completed Lessons of that Chapter. Not all Lessons include a Lesson Mixed Practice. On completing a Lesson Practice and Lesson Mixed Practice the student will move to the next Lesson Challenge Quiz. When the student completes the Chapter's final Lesson Practice or Lesson Mixed Practice, he/she will advance to the Chapter Practice.
Chapter Practice is completed the same as Lesson Practice. When the student passes the Chapter Practice, they move to the Chapter Mastery Test. This test allows students to miss two questions. If the student misses more than two questions they do not pass the Chapter Mastery Test, and receive a Focused Review.
A Focused Review is similar to a Chapter Practice, but includes only topics students missed on the Chapter Mastery Test. After a student completes the Focused Review, he/she retakes the Chapter Mastery Test. After passing, they move to the next Chapter's Challenge Test. If the Chapter Mastery is for the last Chapter in the Unit, the student moves to the Unit Mastery Test.
The Unit Mastery Test allows a student to miss two questions. If the student misses more than two questions the student will complete a Focused Review from Chapters throughout the Unit. When the student passes the Unit Mastery, they move to the next Unit's Challenge Test.
Students also periodically complete Cumulative Review sections. Cumulative Review builds retention, and is delivered after some but not all Chapter Mastery tests. Cumulative Reviews include questions only from Lessons the student mastered (not those that were skipped by Challenge).
Students access iLearn Math by going to www.ilearn.com/login. After logging in, students view the Hub.
Click "start." iLearn Math opens and displays to students their current location and activity in the program.
Simply click the play button in the lower right hand corner. If your school has vBook (Review Mode) enabled, you will be able to review content for all chapters and lessons exempted or mastered. Read more here.
The program interface provides important information.
Clicking the "i" button shows the title of the current Lesson.
This section displays the navigation buttons and the current location. The navigation buttons for students are only active during Lesson Instruction, allowing a student to replay a page of instruction, go back to a previous page of instruction then return, etc. The wheel shows progress in the program. As the student correctly answers questions, each wedge on the wheel will highlight blue, showing their progress towards completing the Lesson Practice.
This section shows the student's location. Above, the student is in C.1.1, which is Unit C, Chapter 1, Lesson 1.
When the screen turns red the student can click anywhere on screen within 30 seconds to return to the same page. If there is no interaction in 30 seconds, the student is logged out, and can simply log back in to the program.
The keypad is the on-screen tool for entering answers. Students may use the mouse to click the appropriate buttons to enter an answer. They can also use the computer's keyboard to answer questions. The keypad is not active in Lesson Instruction where attention is focused on multimedia presentations.
Some lessons require students to enter operands, variables, and/or symbols. Orange buttons will display dynamically when needed, to display characters that may be needed to answer.
The calculator is available in only some lessons where instructionally appropriate. We discourage the use of calculators other than the one available in the program.