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Mathematics
    Elementary Mathematics
        07010000007: Mathematics - Grade 6

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LearnZillion provides students and teachers with visual appeal, accuracy, ease of use and support, and rigor. The content provided for all three grade levels align to the Utah Common Core Standards and each lesson creates a depth of knowledge and understanding. Activities and lessons are engaging and meet students’ needs. LearnZillion provides differentiation along with teacher guides on how to instruct students. The only downfall is the lack of frequent knowledge checks which makes it hard for an educator to check for understanding. Additional formative assessments would have to be implemented.

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Rubric : Mathematics 2025

Compliance with State Law (Required)
Item 3 - Extensive 2 - Adequate 1 - Inadequate 0 - None
Sensitive Materials and Prohibited Submission 53G-10-103, R277-628 This item has not been graded.
Prohibited discriminatory practices 53G-2-103-5, 53B-1-118 and 67-27-107 This item has not been graded.
Maintaining constitutional freedom in the public schools. 53G-10-202 This item has not been graded.
Free from advertising, e-commerce, or political interest This item has not been graded.
Focus and Coherence: Non-Negotiable
Item 3 - Extensive 2 - Adequate 1 - Inadequate 0 - None
Non-negotiable materials must focus coherently on the Major Work of the grade in a way that is consistent with the progressions in the standards. Student and teachers using the materials as designed devote the majority of time to the Major Work of the grade. Supporting Work enhances focus and coherence simultaneously by also engaging students in the Major Work of the grade. Materials follow the grade-by-grade progressions in the Standards. Content from previous or future grades does not unduly interfere. Lessons that only include mathematics from previous grades are clearly identified.
The content provided through LearnZillion Grades 6-8 aligns with the Utah Mathematics Core. Each unit and lesson is linked to specific standards, learning goals, and objectives. Learnzillion provides detailed teacher-facing learning goals that summarize, in teacher language, the mathematical, pedagogical, and language goals of each lesson. They also provide “I can” statements for each of the lessons.
Rigor and Balance
Item 3 - Extensive 2 - Adequate 1 - Inadequate 0 - None
The materials support the development of students’ conceptual understanding of key mathematical concepts, especially where called for in specific standards or cluster headings. Meets Partially meets N/A Does not meet
Each unit provides students with non-optional and some possible optional lessons to support the development of the students understanding of the key mathematical concepts stated in the Utah State Standards. They also provide support for distance and unfinished learning. These lessons go back to the previous year to rebuild or fill in the gaps that may be missing.
The materials are designed so that students attain the fluencies and procedural skills required by the Standards. Meets Partially meets N/A Does not meet
Each unit contains enough lessons to reinforce each skill and learning target to become proficient in each standard. Students participate in activities, practice problems, conversations, and assessments that help attain and reinforce the skills required by the standards.
The materials are designed so that teachers and students spend sufficient time working with applications, without losing focus on the Major Work of each grade. (Are there single and multi-step contextual problems that develop the mathematics of the grade, afford opportunities for practice, and engage students in problem solving?) Meets Partially meets N/A Does not meet
Yes. There is more than enough materials provided to engage students in problem solving. Including, progression of disciplinary language, family materials, unit materials, digital practice sets, digital cool-downs, digital student task statements, extension problems, video lessons, and more.
Standards for Mathematical Practice
Item 3 - Extensive 2 - Adequate 1 - Inadequate 0 - None
Materials address the practice standards in such a way as to enrich the Major Work of the grade; practice standards strengthen the focus on Major Work instead of detracting from it, in both teacher and student materials. Meets Partially meets N/A Does not meet
Each lesson designed by LearnZillion addresses specific learning targets within each standard. They are clearly described at the beginning of each lesson along with student friendly, easy to understand, “I can” statements.
Tasks and assessments of student learning are designed to provide evidence of students’ proficiency in the Standards of Mathematical Practice. Meets Partially meets N/A Does not meet
Yes. Student task cards and activities allow students to demonstrate their level of understanding through multiple ways. There is a lack of small formative assessments. There are two versions of the Check-Your-Readiness Assessments and two versions of the End-of-Unit Assessment. There can be anywhere from 11 to 23 lessons in a unit. To get a good idea of a student's level of understanding, there needs to be more frequent common formative assessments. On the larger units, there is sometimes a mid-assessment.
Materials support the Standards’ emphasis on mathematical reasoning. Meets Partially meets N/A Does not meet
Each unit is embedded with a variety of questions, each at different depths. Students have a chance to show their understanding by completing tasks, explain their understanding by sharing their thoughts with the class, and complete real-world problems.
Access to the Standards for All Students
Item 3 - Extensive 2 - Adequate 1 - Inadequate 0 - None
Support for English Language learners and other special populations is thoughtful (evidence-based) and helps those students meet the same Standards (and rigor) as all other students. The language in which problems are posed is carefully considered. Meets Partially meets N/A Does not meet
LearnZillion has provided Spanish language resources for each lesson. These resources include student task card statements, cool-downs, and practice problems. These are provided in PDF form and can be printed off and provided to students in need.
Materials provide scaffolding, differentiation, intervention, and support for a broad range of learners with gradual removal of supports, when needed, to allow students to demonstrated their mathematical understanding independently. Meets Partially meets N/A Does not meet
LearnZillion has taken into consideration what education has looked like in the recent past and has accounted for it by providing teachers and students with resources from the previous grade that may need to be implemented before a new topic gets introduced. Each lesson has options for differentiation as well as how teachers can provide extra support to students who are not quite there yet. Students can work at their own pace or at the same pace with a teacher.
Design of lessons incorporates strategies such as using multiple representations, deconstructing/reconstructing the language of problems, providing suggestions for addressing common student difficulties, etc. to ensure grade-level progress for all learners. Meets Partially meets N/A Does not meet
Each lesson also provides teachers and students with extensions called “Are you ready for more?” These activities include an opportunity for differentiation for students ready for more of a challenge. Every extension problem is made available to all students with the heading “Are You Ready for More?” These problems go deeper into grade-level mathematics and often make connections between the topic at hand and other concepts at grade level or that are outside of the standard K-12 curriculum. They are intended to be used on an opt-in basis by students if they finish the main class activity early or want to do more mathematics on their own. It is not expected that an entire class engages in Are You Ready for More? problems and it is not expected that any student works on all of them. Are You Ready for More? problems may also be good fodder for a Problem of the Week or similar structure.
Ethnic Studies- (Ethnic studies in core standards and curriculum should be a narrowly tailored incorporation of age-appropriate opportunities that naturally arise through education without pretextual effort in courses, programs, or activities where ethnic studies is not a primary focus. The material should incorporate a curriculum of people and cultures that reflect the state’s various demographics without commentary that seeks to violate the neutrality standard established in codes: 53B-1-118, 53G-2-103, 53G-2-104, 53G-2-105, 67-27-107, This item has not been graded.
Shared Values and Character Traits This item has not been graded.
Assessment
Item 3 - Extensive 2 - Adequate 1 - Inadequate 0 - None
Multiple measurements of individual student progress occur at regular intervals ensuring success of all students. Meets Partially meets N/A Does not meet
Most units only provide a Pre-Unit Assessment and an End-of-Unit Assessment. A handful of the longer units include a Mid-Unit Assessment. There are not enough assessments to measure a student's progress at regular intervals and check for their level of understanding along the way. It is hard to grasp what skills students know and don’t know when only given one or two questions per skill. The assessments are not skill based but unit based.
Assessments measure what students understand and can do through well designed mathematical tasks and applications. Meets Partially meets N/A Does not meet
The assessments provided do measure what skills the students understand in a variety of ways. There are multiple-choice questions, fill-in-the-blank, matching, chances for them to explain their reasoning, create one possible answer to a multiple answer question, and more.
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