MathBoard App Reviews

My students ENJOY this game. Now they wont leave me alone or allow me to get any work done because they want to play it again and again and again and they are not aware that Im keeping track of their scores. The only drawback is when using a bluetooth number pad. If they realize they have inputted a wrong digit, theres no way to correct it unless we use the <backspace> key on my laptop. I use a Microsoft Bluetooth number pad, and it would be nice if there were a way to erase numbers with it.

Its a nice little app. I use it to teach my son on his math exercises. I wish they could to an update that can let users view solutions on square roots and cubes. 4€ is a bit pricey. Maybe for 1.50€ or 2€ it would be perfect.

I have been using this developers MathFlash on my iPhone for two years. But MathBoard is the next level. Very nice design in chalkbord style. Easy to set up and use. I use it every day. I look forward to the next app by the developer. Perhaps one for algebra?

Neat idea. Kids seem to like it but it asks if you want to allow for negative numbers and then wont let you enter a negative number. Also, there is no "help" section. Has promise, needs work.

I purchased this for my daughter, a first grader. It works well for what she needs. It would be nice to have it break down the errors upon completion of a quiz to walk the kids through their errors so it could be used autonomously. Overall, however, an excellent app and well worth the price as fit & finish are exemplary and it works as stated.

This program is great. I downloaded the free addition version to check it out as the price for the full version seemed a bit high. After using the free version I picked up the full version right away. I am a stay at home dad and am homeschooling my son (5) and daughter (4). I have purchased a few retail software programs but found they didnt provide for the customization that this one does. Some of the retail programs are filled with so much fluff that its hard to actually GET to the actual problems. I believe the kids benefit from the direct simplicity of reviewing problem after problem. Also **thumbs up** to the newest version that allows for student profiles and saved settings, this is a BIG DEAL! Thanks.

This isnt as good as the iPad app...I dont like that theres no way to draw at the bottom of the screen, like you can on the iPad...being able to make sticks or dots, makes it easier for some kids...especially kids with Autism...Thank you so much for the iPad app! Its great!!

NOTE : This review is for the Mac app and the iPad app. Ill note any specific issues for each platform. I home school my 2 boys(6 and 2) and a nephew (8). Ive been writing their math practices over and over on a yellow note pad. Im really tired of writing! It actually becomes taxing to think up different questions all the time! My mind just gets in a trap. MathBoard has saved me from having to do all this writing and wasting paper. The children actually prefer doing the work on the computer / iPad. They get better results as well. Lets face it folks, kids are enamored with technology. If it helps them learn better, Im all for it. Of course, we still work on actual paper as well. iPad Issues : #1No number keys. The child enters the answer by clicking on up and down arrows. I really dont like that. Id prefer the chalkboard area had a number pad. # 2 : I didnt immediately see a way to turn off the sound. The app ignores my iPads volume controls. iPad and Mac Issues: #1 At first I didnt think I could have more than one childs name on the app. It wasnt particularly intuitive that this was possible. However, clicking or tapping on the students name brings up selection dialog to allow adding or selecting students. Overall, Im quite happy with this app. If your children need to practice basic to advanced math skills, this is the app to use. Its not overly boring and not an over-to-top game like most of the math practice apps that do little more than prove your child can pop a bubble or pretend to fly a rocket ship. Well done!

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! Ive had a few students get discouraged after making a mistake and having to rewrite their entire computation to fix it.

Ive 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 theres 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. Im 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, theyre 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 its 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 doesnt include those, but it does include the main thing that I need most: math. And it gets the interface totally right.

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.

i am a homeschool teacher. My five year-old is doing addition, subtraction, multiplication and division by herself successfully using this as a tool.

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.

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.

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.