For the 2026-2027 school year, Littleton High School has administered a new curriculum for math classes Algebra 1 through Algebra 2, including Honors classes. Many students have their complaints about the new program that students must spend their time on, Aleks. Aleks is a program that gives the student a “knowledge check” at the beginning of the year, and students must complete 40 minutes of Aleks each week with adaptive lessons.
Some students have strong opinions about the new program. While the workbook curriculum itself isn’t subject to many strong opinions, Aleks is widely disliked by the student base.
“Aleks sucks. Other than Aleks, it’s fine,” says junior Jordan Johnson. “DeltaMath was a lot better.”
The most unpopular opinion about this new curriculum is a positive perspective. People argue that it’s good at teaching and that Aleks is beneficial for their learning. However, these people are outnumbered by the people that strongly dislike the curriculum.
Their argument is that Aleks takes up too much of their time, and the wording used in the workbook is very confusing. This argument causes many people to not complete their Aleks work and get worse grades in their math class.
The most popular opinion by far is neutrality over the new system. While people don’t like the workbook, they might find Aleks helpful or they might like the workbook but not like Aleks. A large concern regarding the workbook argues that it has too many terms for the same thing and uses over-complicated methods for simple problems.
Most students at Littleton High School think that the new Aleks isn’t necessarily helpful, but the new workbook has a neutral vibe about it. Some students like it, some don’t, but LHS is going to use it for at least the 2026-2027 school year.
