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Sparxmaths Solver | Removes Bookwork codes | SparxSolver

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Sparxsolver.

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Welcome to SparxSolver , a Free browser extension designed to assist you with your sparx maths homework. Before using this extension, please read the full terms and conditions here .

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🎬 Autosolve

Installation, statistics starting from: 15/11/2023, 👏 acknowledgements.

• Bookwork-code bypass
• Stores answers (so you don't need to write them down)
• Automatically highlights the correct bookwork check answer

These instructions explain how to Install SparxSolver browser extension on your computer.

Download the Extension:

• Visit the Latest Release page.
• Download the extension.zip file.

Extract the Zip File:

• Unzip the downloaded file to a location convenient for you, such as your desktop or documents folder.

Open Your Browser:

• Launch your browser.

Access Extensions:

• Navigate to chrome://extensions/ .
• Navigate to edge://extensions/ .
• Navigate to opera://extensions/ .

Enable Developer Mode:

• In the Extensions tab, toggle on the "Developer mode" switch in the top-right corner.

Load the Extension:

• Click the "Load unpacked" button in the top-left corner.
• Select the folder where you extracted the extension's source code.
• Click "Open" to install the extension.

Verify Installation:

• The extension should now appear in the Extensions tab.
• Refresh the Sparxmaths website to see the extension in action. (If website is already open)

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

• Thanks to Glitch for hosting the " sparxmaths.glitch.me " website
• Thanks to Shields.io for providing the status badge in this README
• Thanks to Caio Rordrigues for Bookmarklet Maker
• Thanks to all contributors who have helped improve this project

THIS PROGRAM HAS NO CONNECTION WITH SPARXMATHS. SPARX MATHS IS OWNED BY SPARX LTD.

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For Secondary schools, Sparx Maths delivers personalised intelligent maths practice, that is proven to boost grades.

1 hour of Sparx Maths a week significantly improves student grades.

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Rewards and Sanctions

Students XP points will also be celebrated in assemblies:  

The tutor group in each year group with the highest average XP will be celebrated 

The highest earning XP point scorer in each year group for the preceding week will get a lunch jump pass for that week  

Sparx Maths Parent Video

Sparx maths at poltair faqs.

Why Sparx Maths?  

Sparx is a research driven homework programme which has been proven to positively and significantly impact progress.  

What is the deadline for Sparx homework?  

Tuesday at 7am, though we recommend students having attempted all questions by Sunday evening, as this allows them time to come along to the Sparx Support session on Monday to get support with any questions which they are finding challenging 

How do I login to Sparx?  

Visit https://www.sparxmaths.uk/student and type in the school name. The only option which will be available will be to “Log into Sparx using Microsoft”.  

Use the school login details- the same username and password as would be used to login to a school computer.  

Reminder, the second part of the school email address is: @poltair.cornwall.sch.uk 

Once you have logged in on a device once, it will remember the details.  

Why does the score need to be 100% 

Each Sparx homework is bespoke to the student- Sparx is always collecting data about the working speed and level of each students and tailors the homework to suit their needs.  

Achieving 100% builds confidence in Maths, and there is lots of support to help students get to 100%.  

What is included in each homework?

Consolidation of current learning 

Retrieval of skills previously identified as needing improvement 

Times tables practice 

What is bookwork? 

Students are required to write bookwork codes and full workings for their homework. Maths teachers will check this bookwork to make sure that students’ mathematical communication is clear.  

Students will be intermittently asked to do bookwork checks, meaning they will need to give the answer to a previous question, and it highlights the importance of writing down the workings.  

There is more information about bookwork here:  

https://support.sparx.co.uk/docs/what-are-bookwork-checks   

What support is on offer for students?

Each question has a 1 minute video associated to it which talks through a similar question 

We offer Sparx Support sessions 3 times a week where students can come along and a Maths teacher will help them with the questions  

The Arc is open during break and lunchtimes  

Homework club runs after school 

When/where are the Sparx support sessions? 

Monday 

Tuesday  

Thursday 

Break 2 in W4.  

There will be a Mahs teacher present who will help the students understand questions that they have not been able to answer with the videos.  

When should a student come to a Sparx support session?  

Once a question has been attempted and a video has been watched. Sparx will prompt students to “Seek help from your teacher” and at that point they should bring their bookwork along to a support session and get help.  

Does a Sparx support session last for all of lunchtime 

Yes, but a student does not need to stay for the full session- they can drop in and seek help as they need.  

How can students have their lunch if the support session is during breaktime?  

Students are welcome to eat their lunch during the support session.  

What is XP?   

XP stands for Experience Points. These are earned whenever any tasks are completed on Sparx Maths. The more Sparx you do, the more XP you earn.  

What are XP Boost and Target?

Compulsory homework is the only homework which students are required to complete. However, Sparx generates two extra Homework tasks each week for students that wish to go above and beyond, and earn themselves some extra XP!  

XP boost is further consolidation of current learning and Target homework is designed to challenge students.  

What is Independent Learning?

There is a library of over 20,00 questions which students can access at any time. Each set of question had a code, and students will receive these codes after they complete assessments and in relation to their lessons.  

Students can use the Independent Learning section of Sparx to practice questions at any time. It is a good way to revise for assessments and to consolidate learning.  

How are parents/carers involved in Sparx? 

There is a parent portal which can be accessed at any time.  

Parents/carers also receive an email 3 days prior to the deadline with an update on how their child is progressing.  

Where can I learn more about Sparx?  

There is more information on the SparxMaths website here: https://support.sparx.co.uk/docs/sparx-math-homework-for-parents   

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• 5 . Behavioural insights
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• 7 . Supports teacher workload
• 8 . Community

Quality pedagogy enables powerful learning. We thoroughly research, design and test all of our systems to ensure they enable high-quality and impactful learning. Using observations and feedback from teachers, we continually iterate and improve on all Sparx systems so that we stay at the forefront of education.

High expectations can lead to higher outcomes. We want all students to experience success and strive to be the best they can be so we always set a high and clear standard of 100% completion for all students, and we provide the necessary support that teachers and students need to achieve this.

Exceptional content drives genuine learning. Our team of subject-specific content designers use years of experience and billions of data points to create world class content that prompts deep thinking and provides a balance of challenge and support for all learners.

Success is a journey, not a destination. Teachers and school leaders are supported throughout their whole Sparx journey by our School Success Team (who are themselves ex-teachers and school leaders). Working with their dedicated coach, schools experience a smooth implementation and impactful continued usage of Sparx systems. We provide the highest quality service to all our schools, treating them with compassion and respect to support them towards their goals.

Impactful actions that are clear and easy get done. We embed carefully thought-through techniques into all Sparx systems to reduce hassle and encourage high-impact behaviours. These include:

• sensible time-saving defaults for teachers;
• simple, clear expectations and messaging;
• student rewards that promote habit-forming behaviour;
• parent communication that supports the learning process at home.

We don’t design tools to be deployed infrequently, for a small number of classes, or by a teacher in isolation. We design systems that enable efficient and effective whole-school impact. As part of this, we always establish a continuous and collaborative relationship with senior leaders in all schools we support.

Teachers’ time is precious! We carefully design our systems, to reduce unneeded teacher workload whilst critically ensuring that student learning is high-quality. Examples of things we automatically do for the teachers and schools we work with include: contacting the parents with homework status updates each week, personalising the practice to meet each student’s need, providing insightful whole-school reporting and trends.

Everyone can learn and improve with the help of a strong support network. We invest in establishing communities within and across our schools so teachers, school leaders and Multi-Academy Trust leaders can learn from and be inspired by each other.

Baseline Assessment - Part Two

Y7 sparx maths baseline assessment - national results and insights.

Do you want data-driven insights into the knowledge of Year 7 students nationally at the start of their secondary school journey? If yes, then read on!

In September 2023, approximately 60,000 students from 400 Sparx Maths schools across the country sat the Year 7 Sparx baseline assessment and used the accompanying QLA and bespoke follow-up work.

In this blog, we’ll delve into the findings from this assessment, highlight key takeaways and suggest how they could help with teaching in the initial phase of Year 7. We’ll also take a brief look at some of the amazing follow-up work available to students and teachers who used the assessment, and explain how you can get involved next year.

What was the aim of the assessment?

The main aim of the Year 7 Sparx baseline assessment was to help teachers identify and close gaps in their students’ knowledge from Key Stage 2. Teachers could then use this insight, and the supporting follow-up work, to help students build the secure toolkit of skills required for further teaching in Year 7 and beyond.

We designed the assessment to cover the following key units, which we feel underpin many other areas of maths and are important prerequisites for the topics generally covered in Year 7 schemes of learning:

• Place Value
• Subtracting
• Multiplying
• Negative Numbers
• Area & Perimeter
• Prime Numbers & Factors

With almost 400 schools sitting the assessment and inputting their data into the QLA, we were able to provide each school with a comparison of how their school performed compared to the national average, and more specifically how they performed in each unit and on each question. This allowed schools to identify their relative strengths and weaknesses, in turn informing teaching and guiding focussed CPD.

At a national level, there were many interesting insights. The national average mark was 35.78 out of 60, and the distribution of marks can be seen in the graph below.

However, the most interesting insights come when we delve into performance across the different areas of maths and across particular questions.

Looking first at the unit level, we can see that performance was quite varied across the different areas of maths.

High performing units and questions

It is reassuring that most students performed well at core number concepts such as place value, adding and subtracting, but these results suggest that further time may need to be dedicated to other areas of number, such as multiplying and fractions.

At a question level analysis, four of the top seven best answered questions were on adding and subtracting. Interestingly, students performed well on problem solving questions on these topics, such as finding missing digits in a given column method. This question is not necessarily a straightforward problem to solve, but students got an average of 0.81 marks out of 1, indicating that students have confidence in this area.

However, from the questions shown above we found it surprising to see that students performed better on the subtraction question than they did on the addition question. Typically we’d expect to see the opposite result, with students being more fluent at adding. Could it be that students were paying more attention to the harder question on subtraction and therefore were at a lower risk of making a mistake?

Low performing units and questions

Looking more deeply at the individual questions asked in the assessment, many of the questions that were answered less well appeared later in the paper, but a few stood out earlier on, particularly those on area and perimeter.

It’s clear that this area of maths really challenged students, suggesting that time should be given to recap concepts taught at Key Stage 2, such as finding the area and perimeter of a rectangle, before introducing new concepts in Key Stage 3.

Question 7, about the area of a square, was one of the questions with the lowest average performance, with the mean mark being 0.9 out of 2.

Initially we thought that students may have been getting confused due to the shape being a square and only one side being given, rather than the rectangles students may be more used to seeing. However, from looking at the data from Sparx Maths Homework where this question has been attempted over 154,000 times, we believe there may be a more prominent misconception. The most common incorrect answer is 20cm², which is likely to have been reached by students who are finding the perimeter rather than the area of the square.

We also looked into the data on Question 3, which asked students to find the area of a rectangle. Again, students performed less well than expected on this question.

In Sparx Maths Homework, this question has been attempted 260,000 times and the most common incorrect answer given by students is 10cm², which we can assume has been reached by finding the perimeter. The second most common incorrect answer was 5cm² which we believe is reached by adding together the two given side lengths.

The data from the assessment and Sparx Maths Homework strongly suggests that students are confusing area and perimeter and do not have a deep understanding of these concepts, meaning that students are likely carrying deep-rooted misconceptions into their secondary maths journey.

Another question that caught our attention was Question 31, finding the perimeter of a compound shape.

In Sparx Maths Homework, this question has been attempted 123,000 times and the most common incorrect answer is 23cm, indicating students may have overlooked one of the 5cm lengths. But which one? Further analysis into our shadow questions revealed that finding the missing length by subtraction was the most common difficulty experienced by our students. This is helpful information to have when teaching this topic as particular emphasis can be placed on combatting this challenge.

The other questions which were answered least successfully were from a range of topics in the later part of the paper, as expected. We designed the assessment in such a way that all students could achieve some successes, but also in a way that even the highest attainers had a level of challenge.

The question with the worst performance was Question 29 on finding equivalent fractions. Although it’s a problem solving question, the low performance still surprised us.

However, when we dug into the Sparx Maths Homework data of over 205,000 responses, we could see that students are quite successful at finding the denominator of the middle fraction. The issues arise with finding the numerator in the final fraction. The two most common incorrect numerators given were 6 and 12, both likely reached by multiplying the numerator of the middle fraction, 3, rather than the numerator of ⅕, showing that the unusual layout has a significant impact on student confidence with using an otherwise familiar method.

For a detailed breakdown of the national performance data by question, please see the appendix to this blog.

Turning data into action

In addition to the national comparison report, we also provided Sparx Maths Homework schools who used the baseline assessment QLA with access to a brand new feature, Fix-up work.

This new feature provides practice to every student focussing on the fluency questions they didn’t get correct in the assessment. By providing every student with a bespoke task of shadow questions, complete with support videos, students can quickly revisit the assessment and fix-up key questions.

For teachers, the insights page gives an opportunity to dig into the problem solving questions that students found particularly challenging. This is a great way to provide whole class feedback and to engage the class in what can typically be a challenging lesson to deliver!

What’s next?

In conclusion, the Year 7 Sparx baseline assessment isn’t just a test; it’s a dynamic tool that empowers teachers and ensures students are well-prepared for the mathematical journey ahead. By embracing the insights it offers, schools can guide students toward mathematical success.

If you didn’t get a chance to be involved this year (and even if you did!) we’d love for you to be involved next year. But, if you don’t want to wait until September 2024 to get these data-driven insights into your students’ performance then read on.

For the current (2023/24) academic year, we have designed termly assessments to accompany the Sparx Maths Curriculum. For Years 7 to 9 these assessments are supported by a revision programme for students, involving fluency questions for each unit studied, as well as opportunities to practise problem-solving questions. After the assessment, QLAs and fix-up work will be available. For Year 7, we will also be providing reports.

For the next (2024/25) academic year, we plan to make assessments, revision, follow-up work and reporting available for all year groups.

National question performance

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