With Zearn Math, students learn new concepts in two ways: Independent Digital Lessons and Small Group Lessons. When designing our curriculum and testing it with thousands of teachers and students around the country, we learned that some lessons are better suited for Small Group Instruction than they are for Independent Digital Lessons.
This could be for a number of reasons: the lesson was predominantly a review of concepts covered in previous Digital Lessons, the lesson introduced above-grade-level concepts that would be better taught in a small group, or the math concept was more easily understood through the use of hands-on manipulatives during Small Group Lessons.
When students are moved past an omitted Digital Lesson, a card will appear in their Student Feed to let them know that they are skipping a lesson and moving onto the next lesson in the Digital Sequence.
The following Independent Lessons have been omitted from the Digital Sequence. Mission Overviews outline all omitted Digital Lessons and optional Small Group Lessons within a grade:
Grade 1
Mission 1, Lessons: 13, 18, 23, 24, 26, 28, 35
Mission 2, Lessons: 5, 9, 11, 19, 21, 24
Mission 3, Lessons: 3, 8, 12
Mission 4, Lessons: 7, 9, 12, 14, 18, 22
Mission 6, Lessons: 3, 6-8, 10, 17, 22-24, 28-30
Grade 2
Mission 3, Lessons: 18, 21
Mission 4, Lessons: 29, 30
Mission 6, Lessons: 3, 8, 11, 16
Mission 7, Lessons: 3, 8, 11, 16, 18, 22, 26
Mission 8, Lessons: 4, 6, 9, 14
Grade 3
Mission 5, Lesson: 30
Mission 7, Lessons: 3, 9, 11, 16, 20-21, 24-27, 30-34
Grade 4
Mission 1, Lesson: 17
Mission 3, Lessons: 10, 21, 33, 38
Mission 4, Lessons: 11, 16
Mission 5, Lessons: 34, 38, 41,
Mission 6, Lesson: 11
Mission 7, Lessons: 8, 9, 15-18
Grade 5
Mission 4, Lesson: 28
Mission 5, Lessons: 8, 9
Mission 6, Lessons: 4, 11-13, 16, 17, 25, 31, 33, 34