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1. Get your students in. Find the rostering and login instructions that fit your setup — Clever, ClassLink, Schoology, or a manual import.
2. Open your reports and click the “Success” button. That walks you through the keys to getting real results with the program — it is the single most useful five minutes you can spend here.
3. Watch a Quick Start video. Start with the 9-Minute Quick Start, then come back for the full training when you have time.

1. Open the “Library” and search for and install “Facts and Fracts.”
2. Choose “Install,” then “Allow and Continue.”
3. Choose your State, District and School. If you do not find your school, do not proceed — email support@edtechgames.com.
4. Launch “Facts and Fracts” from the Teacher Page you added it to. SSO logs you straight in.
5. Students must go to that same Teacher Page and launch it from there.

Select ONE copy of each class you want connected. The system walks you through this:

1. You must have at least one Course created. Select the Course you want.
2. Open the App Center, choose the “Mathematics” category, and select “Facts and Fracts.”
3. Install the Facts and Fracts LTI 1.3 app.
4. The first screen pre-populates your information.
5. Select your State, District and School, then press Submit.
6. Onboarding starts. If you have duplicate classes it helps you keep only one copy of each — most teachers have the same students in a Math class, a Science class and a Homeroom.
7. Do not skip this step. When onboarding finishes, launch “Facts and Fracts.” That is the step that actually imports your students.
8. SSO logs you straight in from then on.

If your district has already added Facts & Fracts, there is nothing for you to install.

1. Open your ClassLink LaunchPad.
2. Launch Facts and Fracts. SSO logs you straight in.

Two things have to happen, and they live in two different ClassLink tools. Do both.

Login without rosters means students arrive to an empty account. Rosters without login means nobody can get in. You need both.

Part 1 — Put Facts & Fracts on LaunchPad (CMC)

1. Add the app.

   Go to Applications → Add & Assign Apps, then click App Library. Search for Facts & Fracts, click Add, then close the slide-over. The app now appears in your application list.

   If you come across the name EdTech Fractions - prod anywhere during setup, that is us. It is the internal name of our OAuth login connection — not a different app.

   

2. Decide who gets it.

   Go back to Applications → Add & Assign Apps, find Facts & Fracts, and click Assign.

   You will see a row of tabs. They are just two different ways of answering one question — who should see this icon?

   • Profile, Groups, User — go by who someone is in ClassLink. For example, everyone with the Student role, all Teachers, or a group you maintain such as “Lincoln Elementary.”
   • Orgs, Courses, Classes, Roster Server — go by your SIS roster. For example, only the three schools running Facts & Fracts, or specific classes.

   Which should you pick?

   • Whole schools are using it → use Orgs and select those schools. Least ongoing maintenance.
   • Rolling out district-wide → use Profile and assign to Student and Teacher. Fastest.
   • Only use Courses or Classes if you truly need that much precision — those change every year, so you will have to redo it annually.
   

Part 2 — Connect us to your roster (Roster Server)

1. Add us.

   Hover over Apps in the top navigation, select All Applications, then click + ADD. Search by NAME or COMPANY NAME for Facts & Fracts, then click + Add.

   This only notifies us that you have added us. No data moves yet.

   

2. Set permissions.

   Choose Rule-Based and limit it to the schools or grades using Facts & Fracts. Full also works, but it shares every student and staff record in the district. Do not use Legacy Custom.

   We need students, teachers, classes and enrollments for the schools you are including.

   

3. Turn it on.

   Flip the Enabled toggle on either the App Overview page or the All Applications page. This is the moment your data actually starts flowing to us.

   

4. Tell us you are done.

   Email support@edtechgames.com. We will confirm your data arrived and finish the setup on our end.

ClassLink also has a short video covering these Roster Server steps: Add Applications — Permission and Share.

How to tell it worked

1. The Facts & Fracts icon appears on the LaunchPad of a test student and a test teacher.
2. Clicking it logs them straight in — no username or password prompt.
3. The teacher sees their real classes and students, not an empty account.

If any of those three is wrong, email support@edtechgames.com and tell us which one. That tells us exactly where to look.

No Clever, ClassLink or Schoology? There are two ways in. Pick one.

Option A — send us your data and we will roster you

Usually the easiest route. Fill in this template: Single School Roster Template, then send it back securely at edtechgames.com/secure.php.

Option B, step 1 — create your account

If your school already has an Admin, ask them to set you up. Otherwise:

1. Go to login.edtechgames.com and choose “Setup Account.”
2. Choose “Educator.”
3. Click “Lookup” to find your school’s 12-digit NCES ID.
4. Fill in the rest of the form using your school email, so we can verify your connection to the school.
5. Click the confirmation link we email you, then log in.

Option B, step 2 — import teachers and classes BEFORE students

1. In the Portal, go to Admin → Educators → Import.
2. Letting the system generate class names from the teacher’s last name is easiest, but you can name them yourself.

Option B, step 3 — import students

1. At the top left, select your school to import several classes, or a single class to limit the import.
2. Go to Students → Import.
3. Paste or type your student data into the table and correct any errors it flags.
4. Usernames must be unique across the entire district, not just the school.
5. Keep usernames and passwords simple. Many schools repeat the username as the password, or use one common password for the school.
6. With no errors left, click “Validate and Import.”

How people log in afterwards

1. Go to edtechgames.com → Login.
2. Enter your district’s NCES number, unless it is already filled in.
3. Enter username and password. Students get these from their teacher.
4. To just demo the game, choose “Play without logging in.”

Create a login link with your district ID built in

In the Portal, go to Menu → Actions → Create Login Link.

Give that link to students or bookmark it on classroom devices. It drops them on the login screen with your district already filled in, so they only type a username and password.

1. On a computer, home is the same as school. They launch it just like at school.
2. On a phone or tablet, they need the app. Download Facts & Fracts from the store. If your school uses Clever, ClassLink or Schoology, do not open the app directly — launch it from there so it gets fresh credentials.

Downloadable PDF for families

1. Open Chrome and go to clever.com/login, or your school’s own Clever page. Log in.
2. Find the Facts & Fracts icon. In Clever it is often tucked inside the “Teacher Page.”
   
3. Click it. The game opens and logs the student in. Give it a few seconds the first time.
4. Start from Clever each day rather than bookmarking the game — that is what logs them in.

1. Open Chrome and go to your district’s ClassLink page. Log in.
2. Click the Facts & Fracts icon on the LaunchPad.
3. The game opens and logs the student in automatically.
4. Start from ClassLink each day rather than bookmarking the game.

1. Open Chrome and go to your school’s Schoology site. Log in.
2. Open the Course your teacher uses and click the Facts & Fracts link.
3. The game opens and logs the student in automatically.
4. Start from Schoology each day rather than bookmarking the game.

1. Open Chrome and go to login.edtechgames.com.
2. Enter your district’s NCES number, unless the link your teacher gave you already fills it in.
3. Enter the username and password your teacher gave you.

Downloadable PDF for families

1. Download Clever from the App Store.
2. Download the Facts & Fracts app. Do not open it — download only.
3. Log in to Clever with the details your school provided.
4. Find the Facts & Fracts icon. In Clever it is often tucked inside the “Teacher Page.”
   
5. Tap it. Clever launches the app and logs the student in.
6. Quit and relaunch from Clever each day for fresh credentials.

Downloadable PDF for families

1. Download ClassLink from the App Store.
2. Download the Facts & Fracts app. Do not open it — download only.
3. Log in to ClassLink. See your district for any specific instructions.
4. Find the Facts & Fracts icon and launch it.
5. ClassLink launches the app and logs the student in.
6. Quit and relaunch from ClassLink each day for fresh credentials.

1. Download Schoology from the App Store.
2. Download the Facts & Fracts app. Do not open it — download only.
3. Log in to Schoology and open the Course your teacher uses.
4. Tap the Facts & Fracts link. Schoology launches the app and logs the student in.
5. Quit and relaunch from Schoology each day for fresh credentials.

1. Download Facts & Fracts from the App Store.
2. Open it. It asks for your 7-digit NCES ID, username and password. The username and password come from the teacher, and you can look up the district ID right on the login screen.

Clever does not make an Android app, so this one runs in the browser.

1. Open Chrome and go to clever.com/login. Log in.
2. Find the Facts & Fracts icon — often inside the “Teacher Page” — and tap it.
3. The game opens in the browser and logs the student in.

Downloadable PDF for families

1. Download ClassLink from Google Play.
2. Download Facts & Fracts from Google Play. Do not open it — download only.
3. Log in to ClassLink and tap the Facts & Fracts icon.
4. ClassLink launches the app and logs the student in.
5. Quit and relaunch from ClassLink each day for fresh credentials.

1. Download Schoology from Google Play.
2. Download Facts & Fracts from Google Play. Do not open it — download only.
3. Log in to Schoology, open the Course your teacher uses, and tap the Facts & Fracts link.
4. Quit and relaunch from Schoology each day for fresh credentials.

1. Download Facts & Fracts from Google Play.
2. Open it. It asks for your 7-digit NCES ID, username and password. Those come from the teacher, and you can look the district ID up right on the login screen.

Every Common Core fraction standard we cover, by grade band. Click any chart to open it full size.

Every TEKS fraction standard we cover, by grade band. Click any chart to open it full size.

Every Arizona fraction standard we cover, by grade band. Click any chart to open it full size.

• Sample 3rd-grade standards questions
• Sample 4th-grade standards questions

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.

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 them, so they will be prepared as soon as our additional curriculum becomes available.

Read the randomized study research results: Whitepaper (PDF).

20 minutes a day for two or three months is the ideal, because momentum helps. But many schools only have 10 minutes a day, and that works just fine — you just have to maintain the consistent schedule for longer.

Your students will all need wildly different amounts of time to finish. Your fastest finishers will be done in a week or two, while your struggling students will need to lock in for a very long time.

That is why it is so important to establish a culture where students are giving it their very best effort, and have mountains of encouragement and support.

The graphs below show it. Each colour is a group of students — the fastest 20%, the next 20%, and so on — and you can watch each group work its way across the hours. The slowest 20% is split four ways, because those students spread out enormously.

Student pre-tests can be very sensitive, so we’ve given you lots of tools to adjust them to the specific needs of your student(s).

Four ways to help:

1. Help them understand why it’s hard

The pre-test is not checking whether a student can get a fact correct, if given sufficient time. It is finding the facts they already know automatically, so the program can skip those and spend the student’s time on the rest.

• Facts & Fracts gives students roughly double the time required for automaticity, so that we can also detect facts that are even close to being automatic.
• It ends itself. As soon as it has worked out which facts the student can skip, it stops and sends them into the game.

2. Students stop it themselves

Once a student starts missing facts, a Stop Pre-Test button appears at the bottom of the screen. If they would rather not keep going, they can click it and go straight to playing instead of waiting for the pre-test to end on its own.

The Stop Pre-Test button, below the sets. Click to enlarge.

3. Turn the pre-test off

If the pre-test itself stresses a student out, you do not have to require it. In your reports, select the student, go to Menu → Settings → Assessments, and change Math Facts Pre-Test from Required to Off or Optional.

One setting per operation: Add/Sub and Mult/Div.

4. Give them more time with the MathFluencyAssessment.org benchmark

The pre-test answers “which facts are automatic?” If you also want to know “which facts can they get right when given plenty of time?”, switch on the Extra benchmark at MathFluencyAssessment.org.

It gives students up to 12 seconds per fact and takes about 5 to 10 minutes. It lives in the same place — Menu → Settings → Assessments — as a checkbox for each operation. Uncheck it to switch it back off.

Checked for Add/Sub, unchecked for Mult/Div.

Open their Map Data. It shows every question they answered and how long it took, so patterns — like missing the same fact on purpose — stand out right away.

Show them their Usage Map, right inside the game. It shows them how their effort speeds them up — or slows them down.

We recommend starting 4th grade and higher immediately. Our research shows they are usually lacking significant fluency and confidence with the most basic fractions concepts. Starting early gives even your struggling students time to master these prerequisite skills before you try to teach them new concepts.

Ninja and Ninja Master are additional difficulty levels built for students who are extremely high-achieving.

Students start to unlock these as they completely pass off individual operations, but they cannot actually play any of them until they have completely passed off all operations at their normal level of difficulty.

• Ninja is very hard. It cuts their total response time down to two seconds.
• Ninja Master is insanely hard. It allows a single second in total, so only a handful of students in the entire country pass it each year.
• Neither should ever be required. They are optional, for fun, for students successful enough to unlock them.
• These are rare and advanced enough that progress does not yet appear in the reports. For now you have to look at the student’s game screen.

If your device is detected using SwiftShader, that usually means Chrome has been set to disable hardware acceleration. It is incredibly rare for this to be disabled these days, but it is possible. Sometimes the student can change the setting directly; often you will need IT to re-enable hardware acceleration.

If you cannot re-enable it quickly, you can sometimes work around it by switching from Chrome to Edge — assuming it is not also disabled there.

To check the setting, copy and paste this into a Chrome tab on the device. You cannot click it: chrome://gpu

On a Chromebook, these instructions appear to be current.

On a desktop or laptop

1. From the upper-right corner of Chrome, 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 let the device use GPU acceleration. In rare cases you may need to go to chrome://flags, search for “acceleration” and enable Override software rendering list.

If the device ends up using the “Microsoft Basic Render Driver,” it means it cannot find or cannot use the correct driver. Performance will likely be poor. The fix is to identify the graphics card the device actually has and install the correct driver for it.

Press the Windows key, type dxdiag and launch dxdiag.exe. Click the Display tab to find the Name of the GPU, then find and install the correct driver. In nearly all cases this should be done by your IT person — it would be unusual for students to have access to these settings.

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