McIntosh: The teacher has access to something called 'Coach Mode,' and it allows us to go in and see a variety of things. McIntosh: And I can see where they're proficient, where they're not. So, it really changes the dynamic between the teacher and students in the classroom. The teacher's working with the students that he or she needs to be working with at that time, and other kids for the most part are engaged in doing what they're doing. And then after that, you raise your hands. So, you have three opportunities to try and help yourself. So, it basically says, 'Beginning by moving the Y term in the second equation to the right side of the equation.

It's not uncommon for a problem to be broken down into five or seven or eight steps, with some brief explanations about what each step is. When they're in KHAN, basically a problem is presented, and they can choose to watch a video or, more often what they'll do is choose to see Hints. There's a model on the board for them to sort of follow talk to each other if they need a little bit of help ask me if they need a little bit of help. We started out with some relatively easy problems, systems of elimination, so it's 0.5. McIntosh: These are primarily sophomores who have taken algebra before and did not pass. If you can do that one easily, if you finish that, move on to Elimination 1.0. What we're using KHAN for basically is, it's a way of reengaging them in the math.

But more importantly, they come to us with some poor math habits. McIntosh: For whatever reason, kids come to us with some significant gaps in their math.

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