Zearn’s digital lessons build both procedural fluency and deep conceptual understanding while also making sure to provide support as students work through challenging problems. Zearn Math’s design keeps all students on grade level by embedding support within each lesson, unlike other programs that reroute students when they struggle. Each lesson starts with fluency games to practice essential skills. Then, video lessons with on-screen teachers introduce new concepts visually—like slicing oranges to explore fractions—so math makes sense. Each digital lesson ends with the “Tower of Power,” a mastery-based quiz that students must complete with 100% accuracy to move forward. When a student completes a lesson, they earn a badge—marking their mastery of that concept. These badges are visible to students, educators, and families and serve as an easily understood measure of progress across the year’s math content.
Students can track these badges and their progress across the year using the Student Lesson Calendar, which helps them monitor lesson completion and stay motivated toward their goals.
Student Lesson Calendar
The Student Calendar helps students keep track of their weekly lesson progress. When students log into their accounts, they can click on the calendar at the top of the screen to see a two-week view of their progress with Zearn. This lets students look back at (and celebrate!) all of the Zearning they completed the week before. Students can also use arrows to see progress from earlier weeks. Students see a doodle for each day that they have logged into their account and a badge for each lesson they completed on that day. Clicking on the badge lets students learn more about the lesson that they completed.
Students whose school has purchased a Zearn Math School Account will see a bookmark icon next to any completed bookmark lessons and an open book icon next to any completed lessons from the Math Library that were not bookmarked by their teacher.
Digital Lesson Tracker
Zearn’s Lesson Tracker lets students see the progress they’ve made through each Independent Digital Lesson activity. The tracker appears right above a student’s ‘Next Up’ lesson and shows each of the components of the Zearn lesson that they’re assigned to, which activity they are currently working on, and which activities still need to be completed.