MATHletes Challenge 2014: case study & pilot learnings
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#KAireland Camelia Shanahan, PhD Student, University of Limerick Kelly Kirkpatrick, O’Sullivan Founda@on // @MATHletes_ie CASE STUDY
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Case study presentation of lessons learned from the MATHletes Challenge 2014 - the pioneering maths tournament for Ireland using Khan Academy. Includes the need for the challenge, competition structure, participation rates, and preliminary analysis of outcomes. Presented at Khan Academy Symposium, Dublin, Ireland September 27th, 2014. Find other presentations with tag KAireland or follow on twitter at #KAireland
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#KAireland
Camelia Shanahan, PhD Student, University of Limerick Kelly Kirkpatrick, O’Sullivan Founda@on // @MATHletes_ie
CASE STUDY
Why Ireland?!
Irish innova@ons
Irish innova@ons
?
training with/Users/kellykirkpatrick/Dropbox/KK-‐NO Doc Share/MathletesKK/The Finals/GRAPHICS/LOGO FOR BAGS.pdf
Participation #s!
Avg min/MATHletes: 296 (overall) v. 2,370(Ntl finalist)
Easter break
869,100 MIN TOTAL!
334 teachers 276 schools 26 coun5es
3,000 students from 115+ schools
36%
64% primary!
secondary!
5th class 25%
6th class 17%
1st year 22%
2nd year 27%
3rd year 9%
70% new to KA
85% new to KA
Individual v. school participation!Competed Individually! Competed w/ school!
All participants! 7%! 93%!Provincial Finalists! 17%! 83%!
National Finalists! 26%! 74%!
Gender breakdown
Girls!54%!
Boys!46%!
44%!56
%!47% 53%
OVERALL!Provincial Finalists
Na@onal Finalists
1 of 5 na5onal winners
1/3 of top 3 scorers
…were girls
and..
Slide: !Provincial finalists by gender!!National finalists by gender !
5th
Boys 56
Girls 44
6th
Boys 54
Girls 46
Boys 71
Girls 29
1st
Boys 45
Girls 552nd
Boys 42
Girls 583rd
Boys 67
Girls 33 5th
Boys 70
Girls 30 6th
Boys 57
Girls 43 1st
Boys 37
Girls 63
2nd
Boys 43
Girls 573rd
Slide: !Provincial finalists by gender!!National finalists by gender !
TREND
P-‐value = 0.01 < 0.05 R-‐squared = 0.04
P-‐value = 0.00005 < 0.05 R-‐squared = 0.04
Case Studies
P-‐value = 0.0001 < 0.05 R-‐squared = 0.096
Slide: !Need for external assessment pre-and-post for MATHletes 2015!
Impact!
Khan Academy Clubs!v 2.0!
KA users in Ireland 2013-‐ 2014
MATHletes
KA user engagement - US v Ireland!(Feb-May 2013/2014 YoY)!
2x engagement YoY!
January 5th, 2015
mathletes.ie
2015
