Questions that tell you something

What it is

A book can end with practice exercises and a score report. What the questions grade is the curriculum standard the book was built on: the story lends its situation and its cast to dress a question up, and the standard decides what is really being asked. A book built on no standard has nothing to aim at, so its questions ask about the story instead.

What it is for

We keep the first answer. A wrong one stays open until they get it right, and a wrong answer never clears on its own, so almost every finished workbook ends up fully solved. A percentage correct would tell you that every child knew everything. First try is the only number that says what they knew before they worked it out.

How to use it

1. Open Kids, tap the child, scroll to Story Style and turn Workbook on.
2. Tap Save Changes. Books made from then on end with a workbook.
3. Let them answer in the reader. A right answer locks, a wrong one stays open for another go.
4. Open Progress to read the first try score for every subject, every storybook and every practice pack.
5. Tap a book under By storybook for its own page. Once the workbook is finished it carries both numbers, right first try and how many are solved now, and every question with the answer they chose.

What we suggest

Read the two numbers as a pair. First try is what they knew, solved is what they worked out, and the distance between the two is where the teaching happened. A low first try on a finished workbook is not a bad report. It is the reason to hand them the topic again.