The confident five
Only the sure ones raise hands. The unsure ones become invisible.
PUPILLIVE · FOR EVERY CLASSROOM
“Any doubts?” Forty heads nod. Three weeks later, the unit test disagrees.
Print forty answer cards tonight. In tomorrow’s period, every child answers every quick check at once — no student devices — and the teacher sees who’s lost while there’s still time to re-teach.
Tomorrow, one period: every child’s answer, before the bell.
QUICK CHECK · LIVEClass 6B
Which is bigger: 0.25 or 0.5?
AA · 0.25
BB · 0.5
CC · They’re equal
DD · Can’t tell
Sample · A 11 · B 24 · C 3 · D 2 — re-teach before moving on
names never shown on the board
Is this your starting point?
I’m and what hurts most is
WHAT THE NUMBERS SAY
Nods move the syllabus along. They don’t move the learning.
of Class 6 students knew operations and tables up to 10, nationally, 2024
PARAKH Rashtriya Sarvekshan 2024 (NCERT) · news.careers360.com · PARAKH 2024 Class 6
of rural Class 8 children could do a simple division in 2024
ASER 2024 · asercentre.org · ASER 2024 national findings
of rural Class 8 children could read a Class 2 text in 2024
ASER 2024 · asercentre.org · ASER 2024 national findings
SOUND FAMILIAR?
Doubts don’t vanish. They go home in the school bag.
Only the confident five raise hands. The rest nod, copy the board and carry the doubt home — where it becomes homework trouble, a tuition fee, and three weeks later a red mark nobody saw coming.
The polite nod
Heads nod to keep the period moving. The doubt stays exactly where it was.
The surprise unit test
Where the doubt finally shows up — three weeks too late to catch.
HOW IT WORKS
Ask everyone. See everyone. Re-teach before the bell.
One routine any teacher runs from a phone. The software counts; the teacher decides.
1Ask everyone
A quick question on the board. Every child holds up a printed card, a slate or fingers.
2See every answer
The teacher’s phone reads the cards in seconds. The board shows totals, never names.
3Re-teach on the spot
If most are lost, a fresh explanation. If a few, a huddle while the rest practise.
4Exit ticket
One question before the bell. Anyone unsure appears in tomorrow’s brief.
PupilLiveStill split on the exit ticket? It opens tomorrow’s period, with a new example.
THREE WAYS TO START
Try one period, pilot a grade, or equip every room.
Each way ends in the same place: a teacher who knows who’s lost before the bell. Change your mind any time.
For a teacher or principal who wants to try it tomorrow morning.
- 1Print 40 answer cards on any printer
- 2Open the board on any projector or TV
- 3Run three quick checks in one period
- YOU’LL SEE IT
- Tomorrow’s first period
- WHAT IT TAKES
- Free. Just a printer and a phone.
For schools that want one grade doing it well, with us in the room.
- 1A 30-minute call to pick the grade
- 2One grade set up within five days
- 3Classroom visit day 7, review day 14
- YOU’LL SEE IT
- Day one
- WHAT IT TAKES
- A short paid pilot, credited to year one
For owners who want every classroom running it, without adding to anyone’s day.
- 1We print cards and set up boards
- 2Checks built from your syllabus and papers
- 3A coach sits in, then steps back
- YOU’LL SEE IT
- Week one
- WHAT IT TAKES
- Set-up plus a per-classroom fee, quoted for you
WHAT YOU’LL SEE FIRST
You’ll remember the moment: forty cards go up, and in nine seconds you see the eleven who chose 0.25.
MAKE IT YOURS
Her own best examples, prompted at the right minute.
ONLY AT YOUR SCHOOL
A cue strip in her own lesson style
She shares two lesson plans and one recorded period. The cue strip on her phone then prompts her own examples, questions and pacing — never on the class’s screen. With her consent, edited by her, switched off whenever she likes.
- Her consent first, revocable any day
- Only she sees her cues
- Never used to judge her teaching
12-GATE PLANMs Kulkarni’s cue strip · Class 6 decimals (sample)
- 0:00Her hook: “₹0.50 or ₹0.25 — which buys more?”
- 0:06Her place-value chart, not the textbook’s
- 0:14Quick check: 0.25 vs 0.5
- 0:16If B under 60%: her money example again
- 0:32Exit ticket: 0.7 vs 0.65
Every gate: an owner, a date, a “done means” line.
Your question bank, on the board
Quick checks drawn from your own past papers and worksheets.
Your languages
Board and cards in Kannada, Telugu, Hindi or English.
Your cards, your crest
Answer cards printed with your school’s name and colours.
WHY IT GETS BETTER EVERY TERM
Every period makes the next question better.
Exit tickets feed tomorrow’s brief. Questions that split the room are kept, so your school slowly builds a bank of the checks that reveal the most.
The questions come from your own rooms, so they catch your children’s doubts, not a textbook’s.
- 1Ask everyoneEvery child answers at once
- 2See the splitTotals, never names
- 3Re-teach on the spotBefore the bell rings
- 4Exit ticketOne question, every period
- 5Sharper questionsKept if they split rooms
- ↻ Your school’s bank of telling questions
WHERE IT LEADS
Once you see every answer, you’ll want the reasons too.
When the exit tickets point somewhere new, we put the maths in front of you. Nothing switches on unless you say so.
WHEN YOU NOTICE
The same idea is missed on exit tickets three periods running.
Zero Gap LoopTHE MATHS · AN EXAMPLE
e.g. 10 sections × 6 re-teach periods avoided = 60 periods back a term
WHEN YOU NOTICE
Teachers run five or more quick checks a week but still plan by hand.
PupilTeachTHE MATHS · AN EXAMPLE
e.g. 25 teachers × 1.5 hours × 40 weeks = 1,500 hours back a year
WHEN YOU NOTICE
A quarter of right answers fall apart when the teacher asks why.
PupilSpeakTHE MATHS · AN EXAMPLE
e.g. 12 sections × 40 children × 2 minutes = 960 speaking minutes a week
RUNNING CLASSROOMS IN BALLARI · SINCE 2001
Built by a school that rings its own bell. Our terms.
PupilTree has run classrooms in Ballari since 2001; the software came later. Schools that join now get founding terms, a monthly call with the people building it, and a simple way out if teachers don’t want to keep it.
Founding terms
Founding-school pricing, held for three years.
Stop on day 14
Teachers don’t want to keep it? Stop, and take your data.
Built with your staff room
A monthly call with the people building it.
No teacher league tables
Leaders see school-level use only. Each teacher’s checks stay hers.
WHAT WE’LL TRACK WITH YOUQuick checks run per periodExit tickets acted onRe-teach moments caught in classCards printed versus cards used
QUESTIONS
Questions from the staff room.
Didn’t see yours? Ask on WhatsApp — a person replies, usually within the hour.
Ask on WhatsAppNo. Children hold printed cards or slates. Only the teacher’s phone is needed, plus any board, TV or projector — or none.
How many in Class 6B nodded through decimals?
Print forty cards and run one quick check tomorrow. The answer is on the teacher’s phone before the bell.
No student devices neededNever names on the boardWalk away on day 14