Hegarty Maths is a fantastic online software that allows
pupils to practice maths from home, at school or even on holiday. All you need
is the internet and a device (laptop, computer, tablet, mobile phone) to access
it. The Hegarty Maths website has videos and quizzes for the majority of the
secondary maths curriculum. The videos ‘teach’ a topic area, which is followed
by a quiz to assess student understanding. The website will mark the answers to
the quiz as the students’ progress through the exercise and students are able
to flag any problem/ questions to discuss with their teacher.
As part of weekly Maths homework, all pupils are required to
watch a video on Hegarty Maths on a particular topic area, as directed by their
teacher and to make some notes. This forms part of the ‘flipped learning’
pupils are expected to do each week, where they will make ‘flipped learning
notes’ on a topic before that lesson is taught in class. The notes give pupils
some prior understanding of lesson content before the lesson is taught in the
classroom and these notes are to be handed in to the class teacher on homework
submission day. An example of the template for the flipped learning notes is
below and ensures that pupils have at least two mathematical examples to refer
back to, to assist them and as a point of reference. Once the flipped learning
notes are completed, pupils are then asked to do the quiz on Hegarty Maths.
All students are expected to spend 30 minutes on Maths homework
per week. Teachers are able to monitor how the pupils are doing with their
Hegarty Maths tasks (they can see how long pupils have spent watching the
assigned video, how long they spent answering questions on the quiz and how
they performed in the quiz) alongside identifying if there were any questions
in particular which posed any difficulty.
The link below will answer lots of FAQs for parents https://help.hegartymaths.com/help/parents-and-guardians
Here is a link to a home support guide https://hegartymaths.com/files/student-guide.pdf
Logging on:
Visit the site: www.hegartymaths.com
To log on, students need to use their first name, last name
and date of birth. If this is the first time visiting the site, students will
be prompted to create their own password. Only the student will know this
password. If they forget it, they will have to ask their teacher to reset it.
Click on ‘Existing Users’ then ‘Student Log in’.