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Smartick
Pros: Well-designed lessons build concepts carefully.
Cons: A 20-minute practice session could seem long for younger users.
Bottom Line: This math platform has quality lessons with a good balance of fun and learning.
How Can I Teach with This Tool?
Once the initial assessment is done, Smartick suggests a lesson to help get things rolling, so teachers can use this as a weekly homework assignment without worrying that kids and families will get in over their heads. Users have access to all carefully scaffolded mathematics lessons, and teachers can use these to boost daily lessons with tutorials that allow for success and conceptual understanding of foundational concepts or to help anyone catch up who has been absent. The daily 20-minute adaptive practice might be best saved for a session that can be monitored by an adult, as this is when the program doesn't offer much in the way of a lesson, assistance, or hints. Kids who aren't ready for the content or who aren't engaged can get pretty frustrated if they continually get questions wrong. Incentives are built into the program, and teachers can reward students' hard work with time in the "gym" or the shop. There is even a messaging platform, so parents and teachers can send messages to encourage their kids along the way!
Learning Rating
Fun program, more like playing a game
If your child is like mine and enjoys Minecraft or Nintendo's Animal Crossing, then he/she will love Smartick program. The more you work on the program, more "ticks" you receive. With that ticks, kids can purchase items to furnish their own house. It is such a fun feature that keeps motivating my child to do the program daily. My child did the program every single day for the last one year (that never happed with any other program).
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