It’s better than Sparx Science at least.
This may sound slightly dumb but as a child I always LOVED having homework, I would actually crash out if they didn’t give us Summer Holidays HW, but since I’d come to Secondary School, homework started to seem like a chore. Sparx being the worst one of them all. I had to survive doing Sparx for years (still am guys!! Just writing this in the holidays (explanation for past tense) I’m almost over with it though. Not long to go now, yippee!!).
Maths is okay, but sometimes I’d put it off for so long because I don’t have the time to do it, or I didn’t have enough energy. I’d never forget to do it though, if I did I would get an afterschool.
What I found most annoying were the flash card things they added, they are actual poo.
I think our teachers wanted to torture us, because, even if we’d completed all our set tasks on Compulsory, we still had to do more work if we’d not spent enough time on Sparx, WHICH SUCKS.
So yeah, Sparx Maths ain’t that great.
(Just happy they have more retries than Science)…
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veiltrace
There is no learning involved.
Awful. It is stress-inducing, annoying, and unhelpful. When you get a question wrong, it doesn't even tell you the answer or how you would figure it out. Videos are unhelpful. Bookwork checks have made me waste over 2 notebooks to write down my answers. TWO 150-PAGE NOTEBOOKS. If you don't get 100% on Sparx maths homework, my school punishes you, and this happens everywhere else. A horrible resource that provides no real learning. To make it worse, I cannot even watch the god-awful videos! The speakers have the worst nasal voices, which are extremely annoying to listen to!
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Artem
Sparx math is terrible
Sparx math. First off, you have to complete 100% of all homework to complete an assignment which is terrible and long. Its honestly surprising that school use this for of torture, and the videos mostly dont help. I think that it promotes that you should cheat on assignments as it takes hours for it to complete normally
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Albie D.
This sucks.
I wish I could give -5 stars
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Alex B.
but am i wrong though?
me: types the correct answer
sparx: and i took that personally.
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RedTiger
A lot of things Need fixing Sparx
I feel like Sparx could improve on many things. My main concern is when you get a question wrong 3 times it gives you a new question. Instead, you can choose when you want to switch questions. And the videos don’t have charming voices and don’t even give you the same question that are on the videos. They could at least give a great hint. And also, can you tell me why I have to do 100% of the homework? My parents only had to do 70% of theirs back when paper homework roamed…
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The G.
This website is hopeless
On a website that is meant to help students with math, I can't believe this website can fail at this.
For a lot of students, doing math is considerably hard to understand and different students will take time to fully grasp the idea of certain aspects of math. And from my own perspective, this website does not cater to any form of learning at all. Unfortunately, I'm talking from a student's perspective, so I will get things wrong about how teachers manage the website when they get their hands on it.
Firstly, the questions, every part of it has problems that I generally cannot see whether it is helpful for students. The wording of the question is genuinely so confusing and I have never ever read a question and went: "Oh yea! I totally get this! Time to answer it and be on my jolly way to the next 5 questions I have to do if not my grades would plummet!!!". Also what is the point of putting different sections? Every week there's once and it has 6 parts and the times table, is it supposed to be where you do one section per day? Or do you do everything in a day? The introduction video has never ever mentioned anything regarding the structure of the work given out every week.
Other than that, I cannot stand the repetitiveness of this website, I could count how much times I actually remembered the questions' answers and can answer it based on my memory entirely. Not only that, why are we changing the question every three tries? Is it a standard that ALL students would give up on the third try? Because for me I surely wouldn't give up until I actually got the answer no matter how difficult or easy the question is. At least have a button to try again, I don't want to cancel out my workings just because I misunderstood the horrible wording of this website.
Moreover, the videos that are provided to give a better understanding of the question, it's just utter nonsense and it does not help me at all.
I was on a question once that I could not understand at all, and since I did not know how to do it, obviously I went to the video to see how they would teach me it. Lo and behold! They skipped the part I was MOST confused on, how do you do working and NEVER explain why you did it for??? It's like I'm trying to swim but I don't explain the fact that using your legs and hands propels you forward.
If you think I'm being fussy, I would like you to know I'm an extremely well-performing student and have always gotten 80% above on my math exams and have yet to fail at any.
The REPETITIVENESS is the WORST part. When you think of students doing math continuously, it would prompt you to think that—"Hey! I know how to do this question because SPARX MATH taught me too!". I HAVE NEVER FELT LIKE THAT BEFORE???
I remember getting so mad at Sparx Math I would scream at my laptop every time it changed my question. HOW DO YOU GENUINELY GET A STUDENT TO SCREAM AT THEIR LAPTOP????? AND IT'S NOT EVEN A GAME THAT THEY'RE GETTING MAD AT????
There's so much I could talk about this website but like genuinely if you're a school that wants to implement this into their school system, please, for the love of god, I'm not even religious, just get the students to do worksheets instead, because the worksheet wouldn't change the question and they could ask the internet or teacher to elaborate further on the question. Don't use this, just don't.
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Gerrard A.
most annoying and worst app ever
whenever i try a guestion the question tell me wrong
last time i got asked "what is 200+400"
i put 600 and it told me wrong
i put 700 it says correct
how bad is your maths just generally HOW BAD IS IT!!
you really said 200+400 is 700
never want to do this again