Algebro Now Covers All of Middle School

When I launched Algebro in March, it was a 6th grade product. Forty benchmarks, one grade, one test to get ready for. I spent the whole spring saying "7th grade is coming" and the whole summer actually building it, and somewhere along the way 8th grade got built too.

So here is the honest changelog of what happened between the last day of school and now.

7th and 8th Grade Are Fully Live

Everything 6th graders had, 7th and 8th graders now have, with nothing marked beta: lessons for every standard, targeted practice, a 25-question diagnostic that builds a personalized study plan, and a full-length FAST practice test for their grade.

The question bank grew with it. Algebro now has over 22,000 standards-aligned questions covering all 114 middle school B.E.S.T. benchmarks: 40 in sixth grade, 34 in seventh, 40 in eighth. Every question is written to one specific benchmark, which is the whole point. When the diagnostic says your student is shaky on a skill, there is a deep pool of practice waiting on exactly that skill.

The details match each grade too. Sixth graders get the four-function calculator they will have on test day, seventh and eighth graders get the scientific one, and each grade gets its own B.E.S.T. reference sheet, all on screen, just like the real test.

The Practice Test Adapts, Because the Real One Does

Something I have not talked about enough: Algebro's practice test is not a fixed worksheet with a score at the end. It adapts while your student takes it. Get a question right and the next one gets harder. Miss one and it eases off. That is how the actual FAST works, and it is the part that surprises kids most on test day if they have never felt it before. Now they will have felt it, as many times as they want.

Teachers Can Host Live Class Games

This one has been the most fun to build. A teacher picks the standards, starts a game, and students join from their own screens and compete in real time. It runs on its own bank of over 2,200 questions, so a class can play all year without the questions going stale.

If you have ever watched a room full of middle schoolers get genuinely loud about math questions, you know why I built this. If you have not, ask your kid's teacher to fire one up.

A Placement Test From 1st Grade Math to Geometry

Here is an uncomfortable truth about grade levels: plenty of 7th graders are working with 4th grade fraction skills, and plenty of 6th graders are ready for pre-algebra. The report card does not say so. The grade label definitely does not say so.

So Algebro now has a placement test that starts wherever your student is and works out where they actually stand, anywhere from 1st grade math up through Geometry. It reports level by section rather than one blurry overall number, so instead of "behind in math" you learn something usable, like "two years behind on fractions, right on track in geometry."

Lessons for Every Standard

Practice only works if the concept got taught first. There are now over 200 lessons across grades 6, 7, and 8. Every one of the 114 benchmarks gets a lesson, and the oversized ones get several, because "multiply and divide fractions" is really two skills and pretending otherwise is how kids fall through. Each lesson ends with a short exit ticket that checks the idea actually stuck before your student moves on. Bro, the AI tutor, is still built into every practice module for the moments in between.

The Quieter Stuff

A few things shipped without their own announcement post:

• The 10-week summer curriculum launched in May and carried families through the break: review the year that just ended, preview the one coming, 1 to 2 hours a week.
• An early version of 6th grade English Language Arts is live, with reading passages and standards-aligned questions. It is the first subject beyond math, and there is more coming.
• School dashboards grew up: teachers and school admins can now see performance by standard across grades 6, 7, and 8, filtered by time window and category.
• Teachers and parents can sign in with Google, and school setup still comes down to one code from me and one class code from the teacher. Students join with a username. No student emails, ever.
• Algebro can finally send email. Account notifications for the grown-ups, plus an opt-in newsletter for teachers and parents if you want updates like this one in your inbox. Students never receive email, full stop.

What I'm Building Right Now

Custom teacher assignments are next: build an assignment from any mix of benchmarks, hand it to your class, and see results by student and standard. Right behind that is a free progress view for parents of school students, so if your child uses Algebro at school you can follow along at home without paying for anything. Then it is on to Algebra 1 and Geometry EOC prep.

The roadmap has the full list, and I keep it honest. If something you need is sitting in the planned column, email me and it moves up.

Try It

If you're a Florida parent with a middle schooler, the 7-day free trial is the fastest way to see all of this. Your student takes the diagnostic tonight and you know where they stand by bedtime. If you're a teacher or an administrator, schools don't use the public trial: email me at jkorwin@algebro.ai and I'll set your school up directly. Most schools are running the same week.

— Justin Korwin, founder