Courses Available:
- Precalculus (College Algebra)
- Trigonometry
- Finite Math
- Calculus I
- Calculus II
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- …or just read the blog and join our community of math teachers to talk about math education!
Wait, this is all FREE?Someday I may want to charge a small fee to use the site, but anyone who joins now can have free use of the site for as long as I run it. I have been using it myself for about 3 years now, and I’m hoping to have everything ready for free use by other teachers by January 2025. In the meantime, you can get on the waiting list and I will contact you when registration is open. |
Recent Blog Posts:
- Rearrange Problem Groups in a Problem Set 1/31/2025
- Why Students Don’t Need Passwords on ALOFT 1/30/2025
- Updating a Class List 1/25/2025
- A Unit Circle with Negative Angles 1/17/2025
- How To Show Students How to Use ALOFT 12/30/2024
ALOFT
Beautiful, self-grading homework problems sets that incentivize students to repeat problems until mastery,
freeing up your time to be the best teacher you can be!
How ALOFT Works:
- Pick the types of questions your students should answer on the current assignment.
- When students get a question wrong, they get feedback about how to do the problem correctly.
- Students can repeat the problems as many times as they want, and the best score is kept — but each time the problem will have new numbers or a different form!
- (Optional) You can have the students “show their work”!
Self-grading
Everything is graded for you– just transfer the grades to your gradebook! ALOFT is as lenient or as rigorous about deadlines as you want it to be.
No Student Logins!
Students access their assignments via a link you send them– no more logins and passwords to manage for a class!
So much more!
ALOFT watches for undesirable behavior from students, such as guessing, submitting work at the last minute, and more. It composes an email to the student for you to edit and approve, discussing the strategies for success in the class.
Who made this?
My name is Jon, and these days I teach dual-credit math courses. I’ve been teaching lots of different subjects in both universities and high schools since the mid 1990s. I’m not affiliated with any textbook publisher or anything like that — it’s just me, and I think that I’ve come up with a set of online tools that might help you manage your teaching time and get great outcomes for your students.
What’s the idea?
During the pandemic, I came up with the basic philosophy of how a better approach to teaching high school and 100-level college math courses could work. I spent a couple of years putting together what I’ve come to call “ALOFT”. It centers on coming up with meaningful homework and in-class assignments that produce immediate feedback for students, followed by unlimited opportunities to redo the problems. Grading is completely automatic. There are tons of built-in features to facilitate communication with your students.
“Not another online tool!”
Don’t want another online tool for teaching? Completely understandable! You can still sign up to be a “Colleague”– a free level of membership to participate in online discussions about math, teaching math, best practices, and more!
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