United StatesMathBoard® is a highly configurable math app appropriate for all school aged children. Beginning in kindergarten, with simple addition and subtraction problems, through elementary school where learning multiplication and division can be a real challenge. MathBoard will allow you to configure the app to best match the abilities of your individual child/student. More than just standard drills, MathBoard encourages students to actually solve problems, and not just guess at answers. This is done by providing multiple answer styles, as well as a scratchboard area where problems can be worked out by hand. Students can also turn to MathBoard's Problem Solver for further help. This powerful teaching feature walks students through the steps required to solve addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division equations. Additionally, the included quick reference tables serve as a valuable learning tool. MathBoard features Math Activities. These activities include Find the Sign, Equality/Inequality, and Match Math (a memory game). Each activity is based upon the current settings level, so the difficulty will vary based on the student’s knowledge. FEATURES: - Random equation generation for Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, Squares, Cubes, and Square Root problems. - Number ranges are configurable, including the ability to require certain numbers to be in each problem and the ability to omit negative answers. - Number and order of displayed digits can be limited, allowing for equations to conform to certain learning levels (e.g. 2 digit numbers over 1 digit numbers). - Generates simple equations, as well as single step algebraic equations. (e.g. 6+x=12; x-8=2; 5x=25). - Intelligent problem and "wrong answer" generation makes guessing more difficult. - Includes both multiple choice, as well as, fill in the blank style questions. - Activities and quizzes can be timed, either as a countdown timer or elapsed time. - Equation configuration settings can be saved for future use as well as shared with others. - Multiple student profiles are supported. Includes the ability to save, review, and share the results for activities and quizzes with others. - Problem Solver will outline the steps needed to solve addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems. - In addition to standard drills, activities are included (Find the Sign, Equality/Inequality and Match Math). - Quick reference math tables for counting, addition, subtraction, and multiplication.
Poor Organization of Multiplication Activities
This is a poorly presented set of math activities. On the multiplication the multiplier is written in two digit fashion muliplying a single digit on top. This is awkaward for a student who is learning to carry the number. I deleted mine It was a waste of $4.99.
United StatesTime Settings Won’t Keep
This is a great app! But I lowered my approval because the time settings won’t retain my chosen setting (I tried to mark a countdown of 1 minute 20 seconds, and it keeps revertting to the previous setting, despite saving by clicking the OK button) and also because new interface is not as intuitive as I would desire. Fix the settings and I will give it four stars, and update the interface and it will be 5 stars.
United StatesFor Speed Memorization
As an accountant I work with numbers all day and this is a great app to refresh my mental arithmetic. However,an additional functionality in the preferences that would allow a user set an arbitrary time limit per problem would be awesome. For example, a set of 30 problems with only 2 seconds to solve before the program moves on to the next problem. When you get better you could set it down to 1 second. That would allow the user to know which problem sets he or she truly has memorized, and allow the user to focus on the weaker areas. Just spitballin.
United Statesawesome
i am a homeschool teacher. My five year-old is doing addition, subtraction, multiplication and division by herself successfully using this as a tool.
United StatesNo natural way to solve problems in the Mac version
The Mac version is hindered by the way answers are entered using the keyboard. The natural way of solving aditions or subtractions is to start from the lowest denominator digit to the highest. In this app, answers are entered from highest to lowest. This makes it very hard for a child to work the problems without the aid of paper and pencil.
United StatesMathBoard beat the rest of them
I've just spent about 90 minutes and $10 downloading and trying out apps to help my boys (6 and 9) learn math. Many were just awful. This one is the one that I will keep and use. The problems are clear, the controls are robust, and there's enough history and statistics. I like how I can very carefully tune what will go into a quiz. I like the full screen nature of it. I like how I can have multiple "students", whose scores and histories will be different. I'm a bit of a nut about user interface, and out of all the math apps I tried, this is the ONLY one that allows logical use of the keyboard. On multiple choice questions, you can press "a" to answer "a". On fill-in-the-blank questions, you can type in "27" and hit enter. This is really valuable. Very few math apps allow ANY use of the keyboard at all. Many of their mouse interfaces are awful. This app gets it right. If I have any criticisms, they're mild. The settings are global to the whole app, not per-student. One of my boys is doing addition, the other is doing multiplication. I have to change settings each time one of them sits down. Some apps have a game-like earning mechanism. Over time the student gets some points, tokens, etc. for doing lots of problems. I like this aspect in some games because I see my boys respond to it. They want to earn high scores and advancements. Likewise, I think it's cool to have benchmarks and/or high-water marks in the stats. Things like "your average time" or "your best time" or "your best score" etc. Letting them compete against their personal best is good. This game doesn't include those, but it does include the main thing that I need most: math. And it gets the interface totally right.
United StatesGreat Practice App!
This app is just what I was looking for as a way to help students fill in holes in their computation understanding. The Problem Solver feature does a nice job of breaking the computation algorithms down (and by place value!). The only complaint that I have is that there is no way to erase a mistake without erasing all of your work when using the chalkboard feature. Please put in an eraser! I've had a few students get discouraged after making a mistake and having to rewrite their entire computation to fix it.
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