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OpsCore S.T.E.A.M.

Taught to grade level. 
Met where they are. 

A Texas TEKS-aligned classroom platform for Grades 3-8 that feels like a game console to the child and runs on the STAAR calendar for the adults. Mathematics and Science today, with Technology, Engineering and Arts to follow.

Rational numbers: classify, compare, order 

TEKS 6.2B · 6.2C · 6.2D · Grade 6 mathematics · STAAR RC1

Forty-eight seconds, one classroom.

Real children and teachers moving, cut with the running product.

One engine, five subjects.

Each letter is a subject module on the same instruction, mastery and reporting engine. A district adds a subject; it does not buy another system.

MBuilt

Mathematics

Merla Math. Grades 3-8 against the Texas mathematics TEKS: 313 standards, 549 skills and a K-8 prerequisite graph behind them, with a game in every lesson.

SBuilt

Science

Grades 5-8 and Biology against the Texas science TEKS: 122 investigations in a virtual lab, 366 questions across 20 units, and 36 pieces of lab apparatus that react to what the student does.

TComing soon

Technology

Planned. Not started, and not sold as though it were.

EComing soon

Engineering

Planned. Not started, and not sold as though it were.

AComing soon

Arts

Planned. Not started, and not sold as though it were.

The room it has to work in.

Thirty children, one adult, a period that ends whether or not everyone got what they needed.

A Black woman teacher crouching beside a Latino boy to look at his tablet, with East Asian, white and Black classmates working on tablets around them.
Thirty children and one adult. The platform decides who she should be crouching next to.
A South Asian man teacher at a wall display showing a math game, with young children of different backgrounds on a rug raising their hands, one girl wearing a hearing aid.
The opener runs on the board for everyone, then splits by what each child already knows.
A Black man teacher helping middle-school students of different backgrounds who are working on laptops at their desks.
Four years later, same engine. A thirteen-year-old is not shown an eight-year-old’s screen.

Inside a lesson. Four moves, every time.

Every lesson runs the same loop, in every subject: find out what the student knows, show them, let them play it, then check it the way STAAR will.

Two boys and two girls of different backgrounds playing a warm-up game on tablets, glowing game tiles floating above the screens.

A warm-up that decides the route

The lesson opens on a quick game that works out what the student already knows, then sends them on: skip ahead, learn it, or fix the earlier skill first.

Two boys and two girls watching a floating animation of fraction bars for one half and one quarter placed on number lines.

Worked examples that move

Animated walk-throughs with checks for understanding partway through, instead of a solved example on a page or a video nobody pauses.

Two boys and two girls of different backgrounds placing glowing numbered blocks on a grid to design a bedroom in a game world.

Practice is a game

Every lesson carries a real game, and the mathematics is the move: placing a block means deciding where the number belongs. Every unit adds an arcade.

The STAAR-style check.

Questions written to the STAAR format and tagged by reporting category and TEKS. A right answer pays out XP toward the student’s rank; a wrong one gets a hint from the crew and another go, never a red screen.

Try it. Two real Grade 6 items; nothing you answer is recorded.

STAAR-styleRC1TEKS 6.2B

Which number is farthest from zero?

Mia

Take your time. Read-aloud is on every screen.

+0 XP
Boys and girls of different backgrounds in safety goggles, one girl using a wheelchair, measuring plant growth at a lab bench with digital readouts.

In Science, step three is an investigation.

Students run it in a virtual lab with apparatus that reacts to what they do. Every run is recomputed on the server, their claim and evidence are graded, and their written reasoning goes to the teacher’s grading queue.

122 investigations · Grades 5-8 and Biology

Three people have to be right about this.

The teacher

Opens it before school and sees who needs them today, with the reason beside each name. Thirty children, one period, and a list that is already sorted.

The campus and the district

Sees which grade is slipping and which campus is off pace against the STAAR calendar, while there are still weeks to do something about it.

The child

Gets a console they would choose to play, read aloud when they need it, and is never told they are behind in a number.

What S.T.E.A.M. does, in every subject.

Every module runs on the same engine, so these hold in Mathematics and Science today and in each subject that follows.

Adaptive without demotion
Instruction meets the student where they actually are, and the enrolled-grade requirement never comes off the table. Scaffolding back is targeted remediation that returns them to grade level, not reassignment to a lower one. A child is never shown a grade-level number for their learning level.
A pacing rail, not a percentage
Progress runs against a calendar built backward from the STAAR date, so a teacher reads "13 points behind with 38 days left" instead of "61% complete".
STAAR tutoring hours, counted for you
For every student who did not pass STAAR, it tracks the accelerated-instruction hours Texas requires, by subject, and proposes tutoring groups of children stuck on the same skill.
Every adaptive decision is explainable
A teacher can ask why a student was routed somewhere and get the misconception, the skill and the evidence behind it. In Mathematics, 512 catalogued misconceptions sit under that answer.
Science that is graded on the work
Every lab run is recomputed on the server, the student’s claim and evidence are graded, and their written reasoning goes to the teacher’s grading queue instead of being guessed at by a machine.
One sign-in, licensed by subject
A student signs in once and switches between the subjects their school has. A district adds a subject to the same roster, mastery model and reports; it does not buy another system.
Read-aloud on every screen
Grades 3-4 may not read fluently. Directions and screens can be read aloud on every screen, in every subject, not only the ones that remembered to support it.
Rostering, not typing
Classes arrive through district rostering rather than being keyed in by a teacher in August: OneRoster, Clever and ClassLink are the paths built against.
Built for the room it runs in
Chrome on Windows and macOS and iPad, mouse, keyboard and touch all first-class, touch targets sized for eight-year-olds, reduced motion honoured, and never red on a child for a wrong answer.

Play is the practice

Every lesson carries a real game, every unit has an arcade, and the mathematics is the move the game asks for. Children do not need to be bribed into a quiz.

Grade level is not negotiable

Adaptivity routes a student to the skill blocking them, then brings them back to the grade they are enrolled in. Nobody is quietly moved down a year.

Built to be read aloud

Read-aloud on every screen, touch targets sized for eight-year-olds, reduced motion honoured, and never red on a child for a wrong answer.

Not priced yet.

S.T.E.A.M. is not priced while the first module is still being built. Tell us your grades and how many campuses you are covering, and we will size it with you when it is. No placeholder number, no list price that moves later.

Straight answers.

What is actually built?

Mathematics, Grades 3-8, and Science, Grades 5-8 and Biology: the curriculum, lessons, items, games or labs, mastery model and teacher screens. Technology, Engineering and Arts are planned and marked coming soon wherever they appear.

What does S.T.E.A.M. mean here?

The platform a district buys. Each letter is a subject module on the same engine: one roster, one mastery model, one set of reports. Students see the subject they are in rather than the platform name.

Which grades and which standards?

Mathematics covers Grades 3 through 8 against the Texas TEKS, with 313 standards and 549 skills mapped and a K-8 prerequisite graph so remediation can reach below grade level without moving the student there. Science covers Grades 5 through 8 and Biology against the Texas science TEKS.

What do students use it on?

Chrome on Windows and macOS, and iPad. Phone layouts are out of scope on purpose: this is classroom work, not a phone app.

Does it replace the teacher?

No, and it is not designed as though it could. It decides what a student should do next and tells the teacher why, so the adult in the room spends the period on the children who need them.

What does it cost?

Pricing is not set yet. Tell us your grades and campus count and we will work it out with you rather than putting a placeholder number on a page.

Bring us one grade level.

We will walk a unit end to end: the warm-up that routes a student, the game they play, and what their teacher sees on Monday morning.

Enquire about S.T.E.A.M.
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