by Madeleine Carson, Team Leader

Today, Tenmarks.com is in the news (click here for this morning’s news segment). My City Year Boston team at the Young Achievers School and the students we work with experienced the program first-hand a few weeks ago. In late March, co-founder Andrew Joseph came to the Young Achievers School to show the team how it works and let me say this: if I were a middle school student, I would beg to be part of this program.

How many students would rather play a computer game than finish a math worksheet for homework?  If you said “all of them”, you would probably be correct.  Fortunately, Tenmarks.com has figured out a way to combine the digital world and the academic world in an innovative new online math program called “TenMarks”.  And, even more fortunately, the Summit Partners Team serving at the Young Achievers School got the chance to use this program with the middle-schoolers who attend the after-school Homework and Academic Support Program, known affectionately as HASP.

Corps member Ricky Jenkins navigates his way around tenmarks.com

According to its website, “TenMarks Education was founded by entrepreneurial parents searching for a better way to help students achieve their potential in math, and supplement and enrich their classroom learning.” Students create their own account with the help of an adult who then receives periodic updates and notifications about the student’s progress in the program.  Once students have completed enough worksheets and tests, games become unlocked as a reward.  There are video tutorials should students become confused about a math concept and interactive worksheets to keep students engaged.  It truly is a program that helps students improve their math skills while also helping them forget they are learning!  And who would say “no” to that?