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Saurav Kumar, Assistant Professor at the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, is revolutionizing how Numerical Methods is taught to civil engineering students at Arizona State University. By integrating adaptive learning into a flipped classroom model, Kumar personalizes the learning experience to meet diverse student needs. Using the adaptive platform RealizeIT, Kumar tailors content based on individual student performance. “Instead of just watching a video and coming back to class, students follow a personalized learning path,” he says. “Depending on how they answer questions, they either get more material to improve or are allowed to move forward, creating a unique learning tree for each student.” This approach helps address gaps in knowledge early, particularly in a math-heavy course like Numerical Methods. One of Kumar’s Teaching Assistants, Gregory Wood, commented, “Adaptive learning gives us a good picture of what topics are most troubling to students....