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Sacred Heart College, Kyneton is a co-educational Catholic Secondary School located in Melbourne, Victoria. One of the College’s core educational values is courage. To achieve this, Sacred Heart focuses on fostering learning environments that build students' personal efficacy, resilience and confidence. 

Sacred Heart has been using Mathspace since 2015. "We wanted to try something 
that would enable our teachers to spend more time assisting struggling 
students, whilst also allowing students at the top end to be extended," 
says Year 7 Leader and Math Teacher, Jamie Walker.

Setting custom tasks for students to explore in class

Jamie Walker explains that he often pre-prepares custom tasks ahead of a classroom lesson. When creating custom tasks, Jamie has the ability to select the exact questions that he wants students to work through.

When Jamie starts the lesson, he explains the concept or area of study to students and then asks them to work on the Mathspace task during class. He encourages collaboration and knowledge sharing in this time.

Jamie says he’s seen first-hand the impact of Mathspace on students' confidence and independence.

Jamie says that Mathspace helps him to instil the school’s policy of "ask 3 before me" in the math classroom. Many of his students use Mathspace's videos and hints for extra support when solving questions.

Jamie says that one of the big benefits of Mathspace for teachers is the data. He says that the data has helped him to better differentiate his students within a classroom. 

After he sets a custom task in class, he'll review each student’s progress from the Mathspace data dashboard. This helps him to identify knowledge gaps at a class level, as well as for individual students. He then uses these insights to shape the next classroom lesson. 

Once he has the data on how students are performing, Jamie will determine which students are struggling and which students are excelling. He then might assign another custom task for struggling students.

For students that are excelling, he will often assign an adaptive task to deepen their understanding.

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How Mathspace has helped to improve student confidence at Sacred Heart College

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How Mathspace has helped to improve student confidence at Sacred Heart College