How Math Garden works
A short guide for grown-ups.
For your child
- If you have more than one child, they tap their name under Who's learning?
- The big Keep going card opens the lesson they were working on. For a new learner it says Start here.
- Or choose Book 3A or 3B by page and question, or School worksheets by uploaded page.
- Each lesson works through one question step by step on a whiteboard, with spoken help.
A question gets a check mark only when your child has worked through the lesson steps. Just opening a lesson doesn't count. A lesson that's been opened but not finished shows Started.
Making lessons from homework
- Open Grown-ups. Leave Identify from photo selected, or choose the book or School worksheet yourself.
- Choose The whole page or One question. For one question, write which one in the note, like "question 5".
- Take a clear photo of the whole page, including its title or footer. A printed page number is optional. You can add up to 4 photos.
Your photos are saved as soon as you upload them. You can leave the page. Your uploads shows what's happening:
- Waiting its turn / In line
- Saved. Lesson making hasn't started yet.
- Starting / Making your lessons
- Lessons are being made now. The time depends on the page and the checks needed.
- Lessons ready / Some lessons are ready
- Open them from the upload, or find them in your child's books or School worksheets.
- Which question? / Please take a new photo
- We need something from you. The message says what to do.
- Paused
- Your photos are saved, and the message says why lesson making stopped. It doesn't restart on its own unless the message says so.
- Paused for a review
- Lessons were made, but a person has to check them before they appear.
- We couldn't confirm the result
- Something stopped before we could tell whether lessons were made. Nothing is repeated automatically.
- Saved from the earlier version
- An upload from before the new lessons. The photos are kept. Upload the page again to make new lessons.
Children, settings and records
- Settings for each child: nickname, school grade, math book, edition and current chapter. Add a child is at the end of the list.
- Learning record shows your child's saved lesson sessions, including work from the earlier version of Math Garden. You can save a readable copy or download the data.
- Earlier homework lists homework assigned in the earlier version. It's kept as history and can't be reopened.