The Corpus Christi Independent School District (CCISD) requires students, grades 6 through 12, to participate and complete assignments in Mathia. 

Mathia is  sold as “an adaptive 1-on-1 math learning platform for grades 6–12 that mirrors a human coach with more complexity and precision than any other math software. Its AI-driven personalization and coaching support ensure that every student gets the targeted path they need to be ready for end-of-course assessments.”

Mathia is anything but an adaptive learning tool for growing kids. Instead Mathia is a demoralizing program which kills a child’s love of math and further complicates the subject. 

Mathia touts its Workspaces (lessons) as easy to maneuver and teachers advertise lessons as only taking 20 minutes a day working on this website. On average students are assigned 5 to 6 lessons to be completed every week. These lessons have due dates and are submitted as grades into the grade book. The problem with Mathia (Carnegie Learning) is....

• The time needed to complete these workspaces vary widely from 30 seconds to up to four hours - with most taking 30 minutes to 2 hours depending on each student.
• Lessons don’t always correspond to classroom lessons making Mathia irrelevant to the week’s assignments
• Kids are faced with demoralizing lessons and the fear of losing ground on obtaining “green dots” when answering small portions of multi-faceted questions incorrectly. 
• Kids are forced to learn math through this tool via reading only and many are left unsupported at home by parents who are unable or unavailable to follow the lessons to provide support. 
• The time actually needed to complete these lessons are unrealistic and inducing further stress onto the child
• Students still have other homework to complete on top of these repetitive and tedious lessons
• The lessons don't give helpful step-by-step instructions on how to complete certain math problems
• The system doesn’t fully display on a average size laptop and it leaving kids wondering if lessons are missing, unseen or hidden.
• If these lessons aren't completed, it is put into student's grade books as a missing assignment or partial completion regardless of in room assignments completed and status. 
• “End of Course Assessments” = State testing… this program will do little to aid students in committing math concepts to memory for use in state testing. Instead, it continues to polarize students and diminish morale. 

We recognize our students need more tools to learn math concepts, but Mathia isn’t it. We ask CCISD to cease it’s classroom requirements of Mathia at the end of our 2022 first semester. Let’s work with parents and students together to find a more appropriate solution to online tutorials.