How to Use

We did the work for you. Our experts created a full learning experience that includes: on-line lessons with carefully chosen videos, handouts for your students, detailed solutions for teachers/parents, on-line quizzes with a large question bank, engaging activities, homework, labs, etc.

— If math is not your forte, OntaOnta can help you not only expand your knowledge of the subject, but also give you confidence to teach even the more challenging topics in mathematics.

You should start by asking your child to work on the lessons in an orderly manner. We worked hard to organized material in such a way as to maximize learning through adequate repetition, reuse of, and building on previously learned knowledge.

• Each lesson has on-line content that include examples, practice questions with answers, embedded videos, etc. A student should start with going over the online lesson and then move to printed handouts. We recommend printing handouts and solve the problems on the printed copies by hand. The detailed solutions are provided under 'Teacher: Resources' tab and are accessible to the parent/teacher only. Take a few minutes to check your child's solutions. Do not expect that everything will be done correctly. If you spot that your child makes a mistake that repeats multiple times, direct her/him to go back and redo the relevant lesson. Systematic mistakes should be corrected as soon as possible. Students with gaps in their knowledge should focus on building specific skills and might want to omit the challenge questions until they build their confidence.
• Assessments vs. quizzes: There is a very important difference between the two. Assessments can be done an unlimited number of times to master the skills and prepare students for the final test. For many questions students will get a detailed solution, and can therefore learn through practice. Please encourage your child to redo assessments until she/he is happy with their mark. Quizzes can only be attempted once and a parent can review the results with their child. All online practice, except unit tests and the final exam, are pre-set as assessments. A parent can change them to quizzes.
• At the end of each unit there is a test. The child should do well on the test before proceeding to the next unit.
• If you and your child follow these steps, you should be spending about 5 minutes per day monitoring your child’s progress. We hope that OntaOnta material will be attractive to you as well, and that you might browse through it too.

Each course includes:

• Subscription gives parents/teachers an access code for their students to join the course. Depending on the type of subscription you choose, you will have a set number of students that you can add to the course. Parents/teachers can also add an additional student at US$34.95/child.
• (Alerts) post important messages, reminders, or notifications to the course page for your students to see.
• (Info) gives important information about the course.
• (Contents) shows the main units and lists the lessons included in each unit. Our simple layout will help you navigate the page and easily find the lesson you are looking for. The provided units and lessons follow the curriculum, but also provide additional extensions for parents and teachers looking for enrichment for their children. We suggest following the order of lessons as shown on the Contents page, as each lesson builds on the basics from the previous lesson.
• (Resources) contain solutions for hand-outs, activities, assignments, etc. for parents and teachers. Please do not post the solutions for students as explained in the Terms and Conditions for this site.
• (Students) lists all your students alphabetically to allow you to monitor their progress. You can check an individual student's progress by clicking on their name. Here you will see a detailed progress report with all the assessments the student did in the course.
• (Handouts) are worksheets, assignments, activities, and homework that you can print and give to your students to work on in class or at home. Students should be encouraged to complete as many practice problems as possible. Parents and teachers also have an option to unlock each handout so students can print them themselves. To make it easier for the user, all handouts are pre-set as unlocked to allow students access to the worksheets. Locking this option and only allowing specific worksheets to be accessed can be done by a single click, by pressing the blue (Deactivate) button found when you go to (Handouts).
• (Evaluations) lists all the evaluations per course, or per unit if you are in the unit tab. Most evaluations are pre-set as assessments to allow students to re-take each evaluation until they master the topic. With assessments students also get to see where they made a mistake, and often are offered a full solution to the problem, so they can learn how to solve the question. Parents and teachers can change the type of evaluation to quizzes or tests, and set up the due dates by clicking on each individual evaluation. Remember that quizzes and tests can be attempted only once by students, and only the parent or teacher knows where the mistakes were made.
• (Stats) show a quick graph of students' grades. A teacher or parent can also download a comma-separated values (CSV) report which can be saved as an Excel or PDF file.