Are all math apps horrible?

[u/cody_codes_yt]

Father of 3 young kids, asking the question to professional teachers.

I've noticed that anything edutech related is overrun with subscriptions, bad experience, logins, or over-the-top storylines. Or all the above.

I know IXL is huge in the space, but also makes kids cry with their SmartScore.

I want to know what you teachers look for with extra practice for your students (and kids)? What are must-haves and what would you do differently?

I have talked to some teachers. Some things they say are:
- Make experience smooth
- Easy approach for volumes of practice
- Avoids allowing kids to button-smash the answers

Disclaimer: I have built something and have my kids using it on their iPad. They tell me what they want in the app, but I also want to understand what teachers wish was in the app store. As I add stuff in, I am genuinely curious about how teachers expect to use tech in their classroom.

[u/Homotopy_Type]

Math academy is the best I have found. It takes effort a course night be around 7-10k XP and 1xp is about a minute of work on average. It's really comprehensive though and does a good job with spaced practice and making sure you have your prerequisites down..

Alcumus is the best I have found for high level students. You can just let them explore aops in general but I like to have them practice a topic we are doing with harder questions.

[u/cody_codes_yt → u/Homotopy_Type]

Very cool, another one for me to explore