Realizing a vision
Imagine a comprehensive cloud based teaching platform for mathematics — a resource that enables teachers to seamlessly differentiate instruction for every student and uses an interface totally relevant to today’s students and teachers. That was the vision of the two math teachers behind Math Help Services.
Five years later, MHS is being used across the country to increase mathematics scores. The initial team of two has grown into a worldwide professional team of teachers, academics and programmers focussed on continually improving MHS to satisfy the needs of classroom teachers.
What We Do
MHS gives students and teachers the resources they need to best take advantage of today’s technology.
Platform highlights include:
Curriculum-Aligned Video Instruction:
At its core, MHS is a set of detailed video lessons, perfectly aligned to the teacher’s class curriculum. Each video lesson contains:
- Introductory video instruction
- Walked-through examples
- A set of questions with detailed video solutions and self-testing features
Fast, Individualized Homework Delivery System:
Every topic links to MHS’s huge database of homework questions and, with the click of a button, teachers can assign homework on a topic. Assignments are auto-created and auto-corrected. As soon as the student completes one, the MHS system automatically updates the grades in the teacher’s online grade book.
Math Help 24 Hours a day, 7 days a week:
Every homework question links to a video lesson on that topic, enabling students to get the help they need anytime they need it.
Unlimited Remediation:
Students can create unlimited remediation assignments for any homework assignment. The MHS system not only identifies topics that students struggled with, but also suggests remedial assignments to help them eliminate holes in their math knowledge and improve their grades.
Interactive Workbooks:
MHS creates an interactive workbook for each class curriculum with questions, practice tests for each chapter, classroom investigations to develop inquiry-based learning and practice final exams. Questions link to walked-through video solutions, which can be accessed using the MHS mobile app to scan the links.
Communication Bridge:
MHS creates a communication bridge between teachers and students. Teachers are able to quickly send messages to their whole class, a single student or the student’s parents.
Seamless Digital Distribution:
Teachers can drag and drop their own work from their computer to their MHS account and distribute it digitally to students. No more photocopying or lost assignments!
Ability to add your own videos:
Teachers who make their own videos can upload them into their account and assign them to their students. MHS will track who watched them and who didn’t.
Tracking Progress in Real-Time:
- Parents are an active part of the MHS learning team and receive an email notifying them of their child’s progress whenever an assignment is completed
- Students become more accountable for their learning because parents are notified if their child doesn’t complete their homework, or watch an assigned video
- Teachers receive an email before every class informing them of their students’ progress and who did or didn’t do their homework, allowing teachers to walk into class knowing what issues their students had with the topic
How We Do It
Perfectly Aligned Curriculum
MHS hits 100% of your curriculum expectations. It’s the most perfectly aligned resource available for you and your students. Here’s why: Our first step before we move into a jurisdiction is to meet with local teachers and curriculum specialists. With their help we work backwards from the final exam through the curriculum expectations. This guarantees that we hit all the expectations at the right level and it ensures that we give teachers and students the resources they need.
Unlike traditional resources, Math Help Services can respond in real time to curriculum changes. Additionally, we have the ability to listen to teachers and administrators and respond to their specific needs whenever required. No need to pay for the latest edition of a textbook, Math Help Services updates to your specific needs automatically, free of charge.
Comprehensive Training, Professional Development and Customer Service
We want MHS to work so well for teachers and students that they enjoy using it. We begin by training teachers one-on-one in their own schools to ensure they are comfortable using the system. Then we come back and help the teacher launch the system in the classroom to ensure students know how to get the most from MHS in class and at home. And that’s not all. We come back to the school during the year to meet with the teacher, walk through any issues and listen to suggestions on how to improve MHS.
We are committed to training, supporting and listening to teachers. Ultimately, your success is our success.
