eSingaporeMath

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Everything you need for learning and teaching math in Singapore

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What is eSingaporeMath

E-Singapore Math provides students with access to high-quality instructions and a state-of-the-art technology platform that enable them to learn at their own pace and gain knowledge well beyond their grade level. E-Singapore Math curriculum includes over 800 lessons and more than 10,000 exercises and assessments. These resources are embedded into this modern instructional technology that helps motivate young students to achieve their true potential.

The Project

Business Situation
  • Our client is a US-based supplier of school software that enables students of all ages - from kindergarten (grade K) up to fifth grade - to learn math. The teaching system is based on the Singaporean method of teaching mathematics.
  • The client has been running a platform mainly on a legacy system built in Flash. Since Flash developers ceased supporting Flash in January 2021, we were faced with the task of converting the production system (LMS) to HTML. In addition, this had to be done in a very short time. We also had to migrate all the data (training videos, examples and tasks, tests, etc.) to the new format without having access to the data! Another major challenge was to create a website and content (video, images, etc.) for it in addition to the LMS.
  • We also kicked off SEO for this site.
  • The Angular 10 + Node.js technology was chosen for the implementation.
Challenges
  • It was necessary to create an editor for math assignments, an admin panel, an LMS, a site for LMS, and fill the site with content in the shortest terms.
  • We also needed to transfer all existing data to a new format without having direct access to much information - 11,865 tasks were transferred in total.
Technical Challenges
  • The hardest part was making the task editor.
  • There were so many different types of task assignments.
  • It was decided to use CKEditor5 for the editor creation. To implement different types of blocks, 18 custom plugins for CKEditor5 of varying complexity were implemented, from a simple input to the output of division (and other mathematical operations) in a column and other large blocks.
Work process

As a result of thorough work on the project, we got a gorgeous PWA for both desktop and mobile use. All work was completed in time, for which we had to go through hard overtime for 3 months straight.

The new system was tested in beta mode by 700 American schoolchildren. To help with testing, we created a special feedback form for students and teachers to report an issue or error in problems. Thanks to this, we were able to react very quickly and fix bugs.

It is also planned to further develop the project by adding gamification and artificial intelligence, offering topics and tasks for schoolchildren with varying academic performance to pass.

Our SEO specialist has carried out a number of works:

  • Analysis of competitors
  • Implementation of the structure
  • Search for relevant keywords
  • Internal SEO-optimization of site pages
  • Technical SEO optimization of the website

At the moment, much attention is paid to:

  1. Increase the speed of loading pages. Since Google has launched a new algorithm called Core Web Vitals, one of the top priorities has been to improve Largest Contentful Paint, First Input Delay and Cumulative Layout Shift.
  2. Adaptation of the site for mobile devices

After the technical and internal optimization of the site, we immediately see the growth of keywords in the Google search engine.

The Solution

  • We have decided to plan/commit/execute the project in weekly sprints.
  • All the issues we came across along the way were fully described by the business analyst and reported in a Google Document and demonstrated every time we negotiated the workflow with the Client.
  • Extra features were agreed to be compensated additionally.  - e.g.
  • The Fixed Price pricing model was chosen for the project in hand.

Technologies

  • HTML5
  • SCSS
  • Linux
  • Apache2
  • GraphQL
  • NestJS
  • Prisma2 with MySQL
  • Angular 11

Goals Achieved

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Results
Results
  • The PWA was developed at a modest budget and saved up to 75% of the costs of a native app (both development and maintenance).
  • The PWA solution enabled users with various devices use the app simply and smoothly.
  • The app has a user-friendly, simple UX design in the cartoon style.
  • The school app for math education has a smooth user experience on both desktop and mobile devices.
  • The app takes up to 80-90% less storage than traditional apps do.
  • Math Karate PWA has a faster loading time, which reduces server load. The Math Karate is guaranteed not to crash or slow down when traffic is getting intensive.
  • The app can be used for schools, covering many classes and teachers in different classrooms.
  • There are either detailed class statistics or separate statistics for the child.
  • The application supports payments via the integrated PayPal system.

Modern technologies make it possible to apply mobile learning applications for pupils and students of different ages.

Thus, progressive web app mobile learning allows whole classes and even schools to teach and learn quickly and efficiently remotely and offline from any type of device.

If you have an idea to create your own eLearning application - contact us and let’s bring them to life!

eSingaporeMath Features

Multiple user roles

Multiple user roles were implemented, including: administrator, content manager (for the admin panel), parent, child, school administrator, teacher, teacher’s assistant, leader teacher, student.

Adaptive learning

Adaptive learning helps students learn at exactly their level and at their own pace. More about advantages of this feature, you can read here https://esingaporemath.com/adaptive-learning 

Full cycle of learning

For almost all lessons (almost 1000), there is a theoretical part (video) and 2 practical parts (each practice has 5 tasks) + 274 tests to check the material learned (each test has 5 to 45 tasks).

Parent-child roles
for learning at home (parents can buy a subscription through PayPal)
School administrators
can manage teachers
Teachers
manage students and teacher aides
Teachers and assistants
can assign tasks (lessons and tests) to students, check the progress of tasks, track student performance
Greg Soldatenko
CEO, East West Math LLC
Everything was done very well. We established goals and deadlines, which they executed on time or earlier. Inevitably, there were some difficulties and problems that we didn’t foresee along the way. However, Multi-Programming Solutions solved those problems in a creative and timely manner. Additionally, the reviews from our customers were very positive. Some schools used our web app and made suggestions about adding more practices, activities, and games to it, which we’re planning to do in the future. That was very positive and encouraging for us.
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