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I just finished up my most successful semester teaching ever, and it's 100% due to Positive Physics!

I am so glad I found Positive Physics! It has replaced my textbook and my students absolutely LOVE it!

My students LOVE Positive Physics. It is the best way to build confidence and have students work toward mastery of these skills!

I absolutely love Positive Physics! I worked on problems for 3 hours last night and didn't get bored once!

I have been using Positive Physics for my Honors and my AP Physics 1 classes for five years and I cannot imagine ever teaching these classes without this amazing tool. The program is quality and students enjoy using it. Some of my favorite features include:

• It grades itself, and I can very easily grab the student scores
• Students get immediate feedback and are given as many opportunities to correct their mistakes as they need in order to learn how to do the problems. This especially helps my struggling students since they are actively learning as they work.
• Students get different numbers in problems. This means that I can let students work together to figure out how to solve problems, but they each have to ultimately do their own work since they all have different values.
• Customer service is excellent. If I email Jack, he usually replies almost immediately and is very proactive at explaining, fixing, etc.
• The cost is almost embarrassingly low. Jack is very motivated to keep the program affordable because he developed it while working at a low-income school. If a school district cannot afford the program, he works with them to find funding. He is an entrepreneur, but I know that this is more of a service to him.

My circumstances are different than most, as I teach honors physics and AP Physics 1 to high-performing high school freshman. I believe that Positive Physics is a big reason that my AP students typically have a very high pass rate (usually about 80%).

I have never used an online source as regularly as I do this one.

Positive Physics is the single best tool to help students learn physics and chemistry, from introductory/college prep level to advanced placement. Students thrive in person and virtually when they work together on the concepts while each using their own given values. Positive Physics has saved us teachers so much prep and grading work, and has benefitted our students thoroughly! 

I just wanted to share that for the first time in many years I get the feeling that I am teaching real physics to my students (including those with serious algebra skills deficiencies) and not having to water down the content!

I am writing to tell you how much both my students and I love Positive Physics. I can't tell you how much we ALL wish there was a site like yours for AP Statistics! Of which 67% are also my AP Physics students. This is because my students truly both understand and feel proficient as Physics students. They are the cream of the crop perfectionists; and I have been teaching for 23 years, so I can assure you that I am not exaggerating. To see my students struggling and exasperated by the disparity between the level of difficulty of our text and AP type questions. I felt the same way and shied away from using resources that demanded a better synthesis and knowledge of AP type questions; in which each unit requires additional practice and knowledge from a unit they have not studied yet. They had begun to think they were doomed and the only hope was a TON of AP practice in a very short time frame. Now, they not only feel successful, but they understand AND can apply their knowledge in a Positive and, for lack of a better word, nurturing environment. They look forward to the next Positive Physics Unit and they are also looking forward to reviewing using all of the Positive Physics units as they begin the countdown to Test Day. Thank you!

This is the best site I have found for actually guiding students through problems. Many of my students have said that it has been really helpful and they feel like they've learned a lot, even learning on their own from home because of this program!

My kids are still being challenged regularly to deepen their understanding of physics. I am so grateful to have such a meaningful tool to use that does not involve extensive planning and developing on my part! I am a big fan of Positive Physics!

Positive Physics has fundamentally improved how I teach and how my students learn. Before I discovered this site I relied entirely on worksheets for practice problems. Students could copy answers from one another, or might accidentally leave questions partly blank, or go in completely the wrong direction while problem-solving without realizing it until the end. The responsibility would be on me to resolve these issues, always at the expense of my time and energy, which would have been better spent helping students. My current students now use a 50/50 mix of Positive Physics along with standard worksheets, and I've observed that these students take greater ownership of their learning than previous groups had. My students can now easily gauge their level of comprehension and how much of their work they've completed (using the percentages) and they can identify exactly which types of problems they need help understanding. The different values for each student holds each of them accountable for their own learning, and the autograding has saved me tremendous time which I'm now able to spend helping students or running labs. Best of all, during group work rather than hearing my students say "What did you get for number four?" I now hear them say "How did you do number four?" which is a HUGE improvement. If I were forced to give up all of my teaching resources except for one, I would keep Positive Physics. When factoring in the Assessments and Extra Practice features, it's absolutely the most valuable tool in my arsenal as a physics teacher.