You can add them one at a time, or in bulk (by copy-pasting from a spreadsheet). You can add more students over time the same way if you need to. Click “Step 2: Click to add your students to your class” on the main page.

Yes, once you’ve been upgraded to the unlocked version (which is still free).

This upgrade happens once you have had a consultation with a Maths Pathway data expert to help unpack and analyse your student data. You can book in this consultation once you’ve gathered some diagnostic data with your students. The consultation has a fee of $327, but there are some limited offers that might allow you to get this for free too! Email partnerships@mathspathway.com if you’d like to find out more.

You hand out printed login cards with all the details they need. It tells them the address of the website to visit. From there, they click on their name, and input the password from their login card.

Yes, once you’ve been upgraded to the unlocked version (which is still free).

This upgrade happens once you have had a consultation with a Maths Pathway data expert to help unpack and analyse your student data. You can book in this consultation once you’ve gathered some diagnostic data with your students. The consultation has a fee of $327, but there are some limited offers that might allow you to get this for free too! Email partnerships@mathspathway.com if you’d like to find out more.

A computer (or a tablet like an iPad) with internet access; and some working out paper and a pen. There is no need for a calculator; one will show up on screen if they are meant to use it for a particular question.

Students can usually finish it comfortably within 30 minutes. Some students may finish a bit earlier than that. They are presented with six sets of questions. Their performance on one set of questions determines which set they’re asked next.

No problem - there’s no need to do it all in one sitting. Students could do little five minute chunks; or even finish it for homework. Whenever students log back in, they pick up where they left off. No progress is lost.

No special setup is required. All these options work at any time. Students can log in at any time and complete some or all of the diagnostic. When they log out, their progress is saved - and they pick up where they left off next time. All you need to do is hand out the login cards and give whatever instructions make most sense for your class.

This would affect how they went through the diagnostic in an unhelpful way. For example, a student who gets several questions wrong in a row may disengage with the remainder of the test, giving incorrect data.

For each student, there is really granular data against about 500 individual learning statements; organised by topic and year level within the curriculum/syllabus. This includes organisation by substrand and content descriptor. The data is also wrapped up into student levels by topic area. These are shown in the videos below.

Reference data from tens of thousands of students across Australia is used. Those students were tested directly on each one of those 500 individual learning statements independently - which takes much longer than 30 minutes. Using this reference data, adaptive algorithms can make excellent statistical inferences like any machine learning or artificial intelligence (AI) computer system.

A student's level is calculated by the sum of the proportions of modules that they have mastered at each level.

For example, if a student has mastered all of levels 1 through 5, half of level 6 and half of level 7, their overall level will be 6 (1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 0.5 + 0.5).

The same rule applies across substrands, strands and the overall level. However, when calculating levels for particular strands or substrands, a constant is sometimes added. This is used where the curriculum doesn't start at level 1. For instance, Real Numbers begins at level 7, so a constant of 6.00 would be added to the above calculation.

Yes, once you’ve been upgraded to the unlocked version (which is still free).

This upgrade happens once you have had a consultation with a Maths Pathway data expert to help unpack and analyse your student data. You can book in this consultation once you’ve gathered some diagnostic data with your students. The consultation has a fee of $327, but there are some limited offers that might allow you to get this for free too. Email partnerships@mathspathway.com if you’d like to find out more.

A 5-10 minute teacher-led activity which is very easy to run with almost no preparation time.

Like the diagnostic, energisers are a small component of Maths Pathway’s full learning and teaching model. Here are some sample tasks, and a video that shows what you get once you’ve upgraded to the unlocked version (which is still free).

Other components of the full model include mini-lessons, module activities, video instruction, peer-to-peer support, regular formative assessments, targeted interventions, student-led reflections, one-on-one feedback interviews, exams, semester report generation, course documentation, and professional development. You can learn more about the Maths Pathway Learning and Teaching Model here, or book a call with our Partnerships team here.

A 20-30 minute teacher-led activity providing explicit instruction to a small group to build a key concept - with data being used to target that small group effectively.

Other components of the full model include energisers, module activities, video instruction, peer-to-peer support, regular formative assessments, targeted interventions, student-led reflections, one-on-one feedback interviews, exams, semester report generation, course documentation, and lots of professional development. You can learn more about the Maths Pathway Learning and Teaching Model here.

Don’t worry - we can still help! You can reach out to us for a free conversation so we can find the best way to help. Contact us here.

This tool is provided by Maths Pathway - a social enterprise started in 2013 by Australian teachers. Maths Pathway partners with over 300 schools around Australia to improve how mathematics is taught in years F-10. You can learn more about our organisation here.

The way schools join this movement is by having a conversation with us about their needs, challenges and aspirations around mathematics instruction in their context, and see if our approach might be a good fit. Quite often it is: one out of two such conversations generally result in the school choosing to take up this approach.

But there’s a challenge in growing this movement: as teachers, we’re all super-busy - and it’s hard to find time to get the conversations started. That’s why we’re providing this free tool. To help teachers across the country understand their students better, and to act as a conversation-starter in some schools to see if there are more people out there we could help with our model.

The Maths Pathway Diagnostic Tool is free, and there is no charge for ongoing usage. At the end of each school year, you may be sent an email asking you to confirm to keep your account into the next year - this is so that any inactive accounts aren’t slowing things down for others. At some point in the future, it is possible that we may need to discontinue hosting/support for the free tool; but there are currently no plans to do so. You can continue freely for the foreseeable future.