1. Open the "Library" and Search & install "Facts and Fracts."
2. Choose "Install"
3. "Allow and Continue"
4. Choose your State, District and School. Note: If you do not find your school, do not proceed. Email support@edtechgames.com.
   
5. Launch "Facts and Fracts" from the "Teacher's Page" you added it to to view your reports. SSO will automatically log you in.
6. Students MUST go to your "Teacher Page" that you installed it to and launch the app from there.
7. NOTE! This process installs it to your "Teacher's Page," and students will LAUNCH It from your Teacher's Page. However, often both teacher and students are unfamiliar with this "Teacher's Page," so be sure to "Share Page" so that your students will have access to it. (See image below)
   
   
   






Sharing your Teacher Page:

1. You must have at least 1 "Course" created. Select the desired Course.
   
2. Open the App Center. Under "Categories, select "Mathematics." Scroll down to "Facts and Fracts" and select it.
   
   
   
3. Install the Facts and Fracts LTI 1.3 App
   
   
   
4. The first installation screen will pre-populate your information.
   
   
   
5. Select your State, District and School, then press Submit.
   
   
6. This will launch the Onboarding process. If you have duplicate classes, the program will try to help you only select 1 copy of each class. This is important because it helps you avoid unnecessary copies of the same class of students. For instance, may teachers have a Math Class, a Science Class, a Homeroom, etc. And you typically don't want all those identical classes of students.
   
   
7. IMPORTANT!! DO NOT SKIP THIS STEP: When Onboarding completes, Launch "Facts and Fracts." This step is vital because THIS is the step that actually imports your students.
   
   
8. SSO will automatically log you in.
   

1. Install the ClassLink App, "Facts and Fracts."
2. Launch Facts and Fracts from your ClassLink Launchpad.
   
   


3. SSO will automatically log you in.

1. Your school report will quickly show you what Usage, Placement and Progress look like at your school. In the table it will give you detailed information about each class and what the level of mastery is for each individual standard. Each class can be drilled into for even more information. Note that this example shows TEKS standards. The report will show the correct standards for your state.

1. Your class report quickly shows you where each student placed and has progressed to. The table below shows their exact status with each standard.

1. The student report gives detailed information about the student's usage, placement, progress, time spent, time remaining and how much of a grade's fraction conent they typically master per hour. This student had a very long way to go and is a very helpful example of what a student's progress might be like as they master all of foundational fractions.

1. Your class report quickly shows a clear summary of where each student is with the particular operation you are looking at:

Link to Randomized Study Research Results Whitepaper.

We currently cover the Common Core and TEKS fraction standards for 3rd grade and have started rolling out content for 4th grade. 5th-grade will follow shortly after.

For now we have been rather stunned by our initial research results. Nearly all of the students we have assessed so far have shown a tremendous need to review these foundational fractions concepts. As a result, we are very eager to help students truly master these foundational concepts so that they will be prepared as soon as our additional curiculum becomes available?

Examples of 3rd-Grade Standards Questions .

Examples of 4th-Grade Standards Questions .

Hardware

WebGL using Chrome ver 72+
(The slowest chromebook we've found, the Lenovo N22, runs it adequately)
Hardware Acceleration for WebGL must be enabled (it would be very rare for this to be turned off).

iOS: Any iOS 11 device.
That would include iPad 5+ (2014), iPad Air 1+ (2013), iPad Mini 2+ (2013).
(A7+ devices that support apple's "metal" graphics and have a 64-bit cpu)

Android (Samsung Galaxy Tab S3+)

 

URL Whitelisting:

*.edtechgames.com

edtechgames.s3.amazonaws.com

texttospeech.googleapis.com

NOTE: If you have any massively-restricted students, you may also need to whitelist:

    uo60u7qc7h.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com

Naturally, that will depend on how much they currently have to learn. In our research so far students seem to follow a rough bell curve from 1 to 20 hours. So the fastest finishers can (and should) test out in their first session or two, while the deeply struggling students can possibly require 20 hours.

In practice, we've found that schools get the best results if they schedule usage rather intensely, like 30-minutes a day for 2 weeks. Then slower students can keep going for another week or two if they're not finished. Often schools want to squeeze it in here and there, which can take months. But it's difficult to maintain focus for that long. But if you can lock it into a schedule, even once or twice a week, you'll still be just fine. You have have to maintain the scheduling--even for the students that take longer.

We recommend starting 4th grades and higher immediately. Our research shows that they are all usually lacking significant fluency and confidence with our most basic fractions concepts. Starting them early will give even your struggling students to master these pre-requisite skills before you start trying to teach them new concepts.

They can play at home just like they play at school. If they use a login link at school on a laptop or desktop using Chrome? They do it the exact same way at home. If they want to use a mobile device at home, SEE NEXT THOUGH.

To run Facts & Fracts on a mobile device you will need to do the following TWO things:

1. Download Facts & Fracts App
iOS. On an iOS device, students need to download the Facts & Fracts App from the App Store.

ANDROID. From an Android device, students should download the Facts & Fracts App from the Play Store.
Note that Android devices CAN play directly from Chrome logging in manually or using an SSO site like ClassLink, Clever or Schoology. However, on an Android device, performance will be much better if you can use the App.

NOTE!! Do NOT launch the Facts & Fracts app directly. Because you use Clever or ClassLink, you will not have the authentication that will allow you to log into it directly. You just need it in the background of your device so that ClassLink or Clever will have access to it. Clever or ClassLink will launch it and log you in automatically. If you have opened it manually, you must close it before trying to launch it from Clever or ClassLink.

2. Download your Single Sign-On App (like ClassLink, Clever or Schoology)
If your district uses an SSO option like ClassLink, Clever or Schoology, you will ALSO need to download THAT iOS or Andoid App for your device.
(Then you will launch the Facts and Fracts icon from INSIDE that SSO App so that it can log them in.)

In other words, you need the Facts & Fracts App AND your SSO App. And you will launch Facts & Fracts from inside your SSO App.

iOS: ClassLink — Android: ClassLink

iOS: Clever — Android: Clever does not HAVE an Android App, so on Android devices, Clever users will not have to download EITHER App. Instead, they will just use Chrome to go to https://clever.com/login and play the WebGL version.

iOS: Schoology — Android Schoology

 

MANUAL Sign-On
If your district is NOT using an SSO option like ClassLink, Clever or Schoology, you will ONLY need to download the Facts & Fracts App. THEN when it launches it will ask you to login manually. In this case, you will need to get your District ID. You can "Lookup" your district id right on the login page: https://login.edtechgames.com/login

Ninja and Ninja Master are additional difficulty levels that were built for students who are EXTREMELY high-achieving.

Students START to unlock these as they completely pass off individual operations, but they can’t actually PLAY any of them until they completely pass off ALL of the operations at their normal level of difficulty.

• Ninja is very hard. It cuts their TOTAL response time down to just two seconds.
• Ninja Master is INSANELY hard. It only allows a single second TOTAL, so only a handful of students in the entire country ever pass this off each year.
• Neither of these should be required of any student. They should only be optional, for fun, to students who are successful enough to unlock them.
• Note that these are all rare enough and advanced enough that you won’t even be able to see their progress in the reports. Yet. You’ll have to look at the students' game screen for now.

We're not currently aware of any bugs in the game. If you find one please use the in-game bug reporter to send us as much information about it as you can. Thank you!

If your device is detected to be using Swiftshader, that usually means that your Chrome browser has been set to disable hardware acceleration. It's incredibly rare for this to be disabled these days, but it's possible. Sometimes the student has been given permission to easily change these settings directly, but you may need to work with your IT to get hardware acceleration re-enabled.

In some cases, if you can't quickly re-enable hardware acceleration, you can work around it by switching to using the Edge browser instead of Chrome. Hopefully it's not ALSO disabled there.

To CHECK these settings, COPY/PASTE THIS link into a Chrome tab on the device to check (you can't just click it): chrome://gpu

On a Chromebook, these instructions seem to be current: https://support.panopto.com/s/article/Turn-off-Hardware-Acceleration-for-the-Chromebooks

On a desktop or laptop these instructions appear to be current:

1. From the upper-right corner of your Chrome browser, click the three dots icon.

2. Select Settings, then System.

3. Enable Use hardware acceleration when available.

   

   ADVANCED: We have seen cases where even setting that value does not allow the device to use GPU acceleration. In rare cases, you may need to go to chrome://flags. Search for "acceleration" and "Enable " Override Software rendering list.

   

   Enabling this feature will improve performance significantly. HOWEVER, if you have to set this flag, it is usually because the devices correct graphics driver has been corrupted. Reinstalling the graphics device will be a much better solution. To see which graphics processor your device has, Press the Windows button and type dxdiag. Launch dxdiag.exe that comes up. Click on the "Display" tab to find the "Name" of your GPU, then find the correct driver for it and update it. In basically all cases, this should be done by your IT person. It will be a very odd situation where you or students even have access to these settings.

   

If your device winds up using the "Microsoft Basid Render Driver" it basically means that it can't find or can't use the CORRRECT driver. The performance will then likely be pretty terrible. The fix for this is to find which graphics card you DO Have and get the correct driver for it.

To find out your graphics driver, press the Windows button and type "dxdiag". Launch the dxdiag.exe option that comes up. Click on the "Display" tab to find the "Name" of your GPU, then find the correct driver for it and update it. In basically all cases, this should be done by your IT person. It will be a very odd situation where you or students even have access to these settings.