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ASCEND MATH PARTNER NEWSLETTER

MARCH 2025

Gold Medal 2025

Welcome to the season of recognition!

Your students are making strides in Ascend, and it’s time to celebrate their hard work. The Gold Medal program is designed to shine a light on their efforts and yours.

Gold Medalists will be featured on the Ascend Math website for a year. Plus, you will receive a plaque to proudly display in your classroom or assembly area.

Visit the Gold Medal page and nominate your school today!

Math Fun

Why did pi fail its driving test?

(Answer at the bottom of this newsletter)

Partner School of the Month

Congratulations to Trivium Charter School in California, as our Partner School of the Month for March! Students there have been working to improve their math skills and have made amazing progress!

“The Ascend Math curriculum coupled with strong teacher support in our Math Mastery class has been very effective this year. Many of our students were two or more grade levels behind in their skills at the beginning of the year. Ascend Math has allowed our students to progress quickly by providing streamlined content that targets each student’s needs as identified by the initial assessments. We are excited to have a high percentage of students who are able to return to grade level Math within one school year!” – Mary Beth, Virtual Math Teacher

“The individualized track this program offers our students is exactly what our school program needs to support our unique learners. Being able to customize student paths, even after the screener, is a powerful tool. You can have students review lessons that, as a teacher, you see the student still has a learning gap in. I’ve seen wonderful growth with students who do their weekly hours in Ascend. We have had students show a year’s growth in math in just the first semester alone!” – Wendy, Virtual Math Teacher.”

Congratulations to you all!

Tidbit Tuesday

Ascend Math now offers a weekly series of fun, math-related activities related to current events. These activities offer ideas for project based learning to promote student conceptual understanding and engagement.

Use these activities for entry tickets, exit tickets, extension activities and more! The posts are also all available on our website.

Summer School 2025

Ready to start planning for summer school? Visit our summer school page to view our Summer School Guide, scheduling ideas, and more!

Product updates!

Coming Soon: Study guide markup

One of the requested features in this year’s survey was the ability for students to fill out their study guides without using a third-party program. Students will now be able to type, write, or draw on their study guides within Ascend Math. They will also be able to save or print them out. Check out our Wiki article.

Data Reviews

It’s the perfect time to see how your students have progressed! Contact us for a Data Review session.

A great way to monitor student progress anytime is using the Ascend Math Student Progress Summary report.

Tip of the Month

Our survey resulted in a lot of great feedback. The most common questions asked are answered in our 2025 FAQ document.

Our TidBit Tuesday Posts continue to provide weekly activities designed to promote engagement, collaboration, and critical thinking through fun challenges. Last week, we shared a blog post highlighting the research behind these activities.

Model Educator

The Ascend Math Model Educator program recognizes and rewards teacher and their students who work diligently to achieve growth in math.

Visit our website to learn more and view the submission form.

View Model Educators on the Ascend Math National Hall of Fame Page.

Tell-A-Friend

Know a peer who needs Ascend Math for summer school? Share this link with them to let them know What Sets Us Apart at Ascend Math!

Plus, visit our website and let us know who could benefit from Ascend Math! As a thank you we will send you an “I Teach Extraordinary Kids” t-shirt as a gift.

We would love to help the students of your friends or fellow educators!