What program options are available?

To assign a Program, you must have an XtraMath license. Our free version includes only some program assignments.

With an XtraMath License, educators can tailor fluency practice to meet diverse learning needs by customizing. There are two types of customized options determined by the program length: Adaptive Practice and Placement Quiz.

Choose how your student will practice:

Adaptive Practice refers to the daily XtraMath sessions, which are short (about 10 minutes) and designed for ongoing fluency development. It includes a quick progress quiz followed by personalized practice activities, using spaced repetition to strengthen recall over time. This is best for daily classroom or at-home use to build and maintain math fact fluency.

Placement Quiz is a diagnostic fluency assessment that checks a student's current level without additional practice. It's best for fluency sprints at the beginning of the school year, screening before state testing, intervention planning, and progress monitoring — especially when instructional time is limited or daily practice isn't the primary goal.

To learn more about their differences, click here.

✅ Math Operations – Choose specific operations (e.g., multiplication only)

✅ Problem Sets – Select from Beginning, Regular, or Expanded difficulty levels

✅ Fluency Thresholds – Adjust time limits for answering facts (1.5 to 12 seconds)

✅ Assessment-Only Mode – Assign placement quizzes without practice sessions

💡 Note: XtraMath does not currently support mixed operations within a single activity or allow manual selection of specific facts for practice. Instead, during the first three days of placement quizzes, XtraMath’s adaptive algorithm assesses each student’s knowledge and automatically introduces facts in the correct order and at the right pace for optimal learning.

Custom Program: Adaptive Practice

Math Operations

With a Custom Program, you can choose which operations will be included. The operations are completed one at a time, in order. For example, if you assign Multiplication & Division, the student must complete Multiplication first before moving on to Division.

Available Operation Options:

• Addition & Subtraction
• Addition, Subtraction & Multiplication
• Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication & Division
• Multiplication & Division
• Addition
• Subtraction
• Multiplication
• Division

Difficulty Level

The difficulty level refers to the problem set, which determines which facts will be practiced within each operation, based on the size of the matrix and the range of numbers included. Problem set options are currently:

• Beginning:
  • Addition & Subtraction: Sums up to 10 and their inverse.
  • Multiplication: Starts with 0s, 1s, and 2s, then gradually introduces facts up to 9s.
  • Division: Begins with division by 1 and 2, then expands to simple division up to 9s, reinforcing multiplication as the inverse
• Regular: Covers all facts up to 9s across all operations.
• Expanded: Extends all facts up to 12s across all operations.

For more details, visit our XtraMath Glossary and Icon Guide.

Fluency Threshold

The fluency threshold controls how much time students have to answer each problem before the correct answer is shown. A lower time limit makes the program more challenging, while a higher time limit allows students to focus on accuracy before building speed.

Educators can adjust fluency thresholds to best support student needs, whether providing extra time for early learners or increasing the challenge for advanced students.

Custom Program: Placement Quiz

The Placement Quiz gives educators a quick overview of a student’s math fluency, highlighting strengths and gaps in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division to guide targeted instruction. It works well for fluency sprints at the start of the school year or before state testing.

How It Works:

• Starts with one operation – The Placement Quiz begins with a single operation (e.g., addition). Teachers assign all four operations for 3rd-grade students and up, or just addition and subtraction for 2nd grade and younger students.
• Quizzes only, no practice – Instead of practicing an operation to mastery, students go straight to quizzes.
• Automatic progression – Based on their score, students move through operations in order — addition → subtraction → multiplication → division — with no practice sessions in between.

💡 Best Practice Tips: Once students complete their placement quizzes for each operation, XtraMath provides an initial “fluency score” for each operation, shown in your Classroom Report and each student's Student Report. After reviewing these results, teachers can change the student's program settings to Adaptive Practice and assign the operation that needs the most practice. Choosing the right operation helps build the skills students need for multi-step thinking as the year's math gets more complex. We recommend basing this choice on the student's grade level — follow this link for more on XtraMath Suggested Programs, organized by grade.