Maths Sparx LearningReviews of maths.sparx-learning.com

"The worst form of torture known to mankind"

Not gonna goon, The sparx creators are chud femboys, but what do i know, im just a girlllie, go off divaa

Its so incredibly bad and this is the worst and it sucks so so so much worst mistake ever

I am a student. Maths used to interest me before Sparx Maths became the primary maths homework. My decline can be summarised to a few reasons. - Sparx approach to learning is completely opposite to what every teacher, mentor, and peer will tell you. In their flawed opinion, to do maths and "learn" means getting everything right. They encourage an idea that one hour of learning is enough but this is not enforced by them and biased teachers will still give you a negative point or detention if you struggle to do one question and spend over even 80 minutes "learning." - When you do need help, just "go to their videos." Oh I wish it were so simple but the videos are often a complete and utter deviation from the subject. This is most common in the niche and difficult subjects in which videos are needed most! - The algorithm encourages failure, not difficulty. After years of use, you realise that students who need most help are given minimal help from videos and no guarantee of help from teachers. As well as this, students such as myself who are higher level are given the hardest topics. However, these topics can only get so hard and often just push the limits of one question which in some cases is just too difficult and others, it is just a long chore containing no aspect of exam-style multi-step questions. What more? When questions are genuinely difficult, those are ones with the worst and most useless help videos in existence. - After three (used to be two) attempts of a question, you get a new one of the same topic. If you have ever done maths or learning in general, you'll understand that this is a stupid and pointless decision. Whether I just want to understand what I did wrong in a question or mistyped my third attempt at an answer, this just adds extra burden, wastes time, and has no logical reason behind. It is about as effective to learning as is knocking yourself out with a hammer repeatedly. I cannot bear it and there is a reason why they raised it to three max mistakes. Because it was an illogical policy to begin with. - If this doesn't already sound like a scandal, here come Bookwork checks. Bookwork checks are my favourite way to torture myself. If you do not use a browser extension; literally made by us teenagers, to bypass bookwork checks, you enjoy watching paint dry while being stabbed. The concept is that you must write down a three digit code as well as each corresponding answer and you will be asked randomly about the answers to a past question. Again, no real point and completely stupid. To add insult to injury, The algorithm makes you complete more checks, taking more of your time if you are already struggling. How "fun." - Detentions are caused frequently by all of these factors, especially how the "Not all correct = incomplete" policy sort of polarises teachers to think that one question means a lot more that it does while for example, in written homework, getting one question wrong is as simple as just one question wrong. I do not like sparx maths. This is only a summary of my complaints. Thank you for your time.

thanks sparx maths wasting an hour of every week I have to punish competence with difficulty and incompetence is punished with bring stuck for 20 minutes

If the goal is to make children hate maths or get them to find apps to circumvent book mark checks then this succeeds. If you want to get kids to enjoy and learn something then this fails.

I can't even start with how horrible this platform is. Asking for 100% completion,no wrong answers,is just unrealistic and completely ludicrous. And how are we supposed to remember every single answer for bookwork checks? Sure,you can write it down,but the homework itself is already time consuming enough. I don't have anything positive to say about it. Do better.

I hate this god forsaken app. Genuinely the worst thing I’ve ever done like it’s just horrific. It drives me insane stupid bookwork checks and that horrible voice on the useless videos. It was absolutely nothing to help me like I’d rather just have a worksheet is just horrible whoever invented this app hates children and likes exporting their brains. It is horrible.