Find the gap. Fill it. Keep it filled.
Four steps, the same for every child and every subject. Nobody skips one, and nobody moves on before they're ready.
It starts with a short diagnostic.
Your child answers a few questions at their class level. When one trips them up, the next question steps back to the topic underneath it, class by class, until we find exactly where the gap began.
- Short, and nothing rides on it
- Steps back into earlier classes when it needs to
- Ends with a clear starting point
- Simultaneous equations, answered wrong
- Quadratics, not asked
- Word problems, not asked
- Linear equations, answered wrong
- Solving for x, answered wrong
- Place value, answered right
- Fractions, answered right
- Negative numbers, the gap
One missing topic can hold up everything above it.
Topics are built on each other. A child who never quite got negative numbers in JSS1 will struggle with equations in JSS3 and SSS1, however many times those lessons are repeated. So that's where Sopherlo starts.
Place value, JSS1
Negative numbers, JSS1 · missing
Fractions, JSS1
Solving for x, JSS2
Ratios, JSS2
Linear equations, JSS3
Simultaneous equations, SSS1
Taught at their level, until it's mastered.
Each topic moves from a worked example, to practice together, to practice on their own. Hints help them think without handing over the answer. They move on only when they've shown they can do it.
- Worked examples, one step at a time
- Hints that point the way, never the answer
- No moving on until a topic is mastered
- Done: Worked example
- Done: Practice together
- Current step: On their own
- Goal: Mastered
Reviews keep it there for exam time.
Once a topic is mastered, it comes back in short reviews, first after a day, then a week, then further apart. So what your child learned in first term is still there when WAEC and NECO arrive.
- Mastered
- 1 day
- 1 week
- 3 weeks
- 2 months
- Exam
Granular updates, not just at report-card time.
The parent view shows what your child has mastered, what they're working on, and when their next review is.
- Diagnostic doneStarting with negative numbers, a JSS1 topic
- Ada mastered negative numbersMathematics · next: solving for x
- English review on ThursdayAbout five minutes
A few things Sopherlo won't do.
Replace teachers
It works alongside lesson teachers, parents and older siblings, and shows them where to help.
Rush ahead
No skipping to the next topic before this one is mastered.
Hand out answers
Hints help your child think. The answer is theirs to find.
Let's find where your child should start.
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