ZearnReviews of zearn.org

This app is bad. You do the same thing over and over, and that stupid tower of power. it gets me mad a lot. I mean, for me it's missing 2 answers and it resets you, but for others it´s 1, which is brutal. My school takes Zearn for a GRADE. if you complete 3 lessons in one week, you basically get a free grade. BUT, since it's currently the time I´m writing this at the last week we use Zearn (thank GOD) but now i have to complete a WHOLE mission! I already completed it in one day (because i´m so awesome) but a lot of people struggle with Zearn and it ends up as a bad grade! Do i recommend this app for schools? No. Not at all.

do NOT use zearn if you actually want your students to try. i used to have mental breakdowns and physically hurt myself because of this tool. not only is it absolutely infuriating, but it treats you like an actual toddler. ive used this software for years and it has not improved one bit.

Zearn's "Tower of Power" treats you like a three-year-old, making you restart your progress with a singular wrong answer. Every time I have to open it in class, I just hope I get lucky and finish a lesson so I can hurry and be done with it.

On the tower of power when you get one answer wrong then you just have to start over again and get a NEW problem that is literally the same thing as the last but you have to start all over again and when I DO get through the tower of power it is only because I just learn a pattern that is repeated and repeated in EVERY problem.

zero stars no explanation needed

I honestly feel like I’m losing my mind staring at the Zearn loading screen every single day. As a student, I can tell you that this program isn’t just a math tool; it’s a test of my patience that I am currently failing. We are told that technology is supposed to make learning more efficient and personalized, but Zearn feels like it was designed to do the exact opposite. It is a repetitive, patronizing, and unforgiving system that makes me want to close my laptop and never look at a number again. The biggest issue, by far, is the absolute lack of mercy when it comes to mistakes. In a real classroom, if I get a step wrong, my teacher walks me through it and we move on. In Zearn, if I miss one tiny detail or click the wrong box, the program acts like I’ve failed the entire concept. There are so many instances where you get exactly one chance to get a "Tower of Power" question right. If you slip up, you don't just get a hint; you get sent back to the very beginning of the sequence. It’s soul-crushing. You can spend ten minutes working through a difficult set of problems, make one accidental click, and suddenly you’re staring at the exact same screen you saw fifteen minutes ago. It doesn’t feel like learning; it feels like a punishment. It teaches me to be afraid of clicking anything, which is the opposite of how math is supposed to work. Then there is the repetition. I understand that practice makes perfect, but Zearn takes it to a level that feels like a loop in a horror movie. You do the same types of problems in the digital lesson, then the same ones in the activity, and then more of the same in the "Tower of Power." If the goal is to make us memorize a specific pattern by force, then I guess it works, but it doesn’t actually help us understand the logic. By the time I’m on my tenth version of the same fraction problem, my brain has completely checked out. I’m just looking for the pattern to get the green checkmark so I can finally be done. It turns math into a chore rather than a skill. What makes all of this even worse is the tone of the program. It treats us like we are literally in kindergarten. The animations, the overly enthusiastic voices, and the way the speakers talk down to the audience is insulting. I’m in middle school, but the program is talking to me in this high-pitched, slow, "baby" voice that makes me feel like I’m watching a show for toddlers. It is hard to take the curriculum seriously when the interface is designed for someone half my age. We are trying to learn complex math, but the program is busy showing us cartoon characters and using simplified language that feels patronizing. Zearn takes all the joy and curiosity out of math and replaces it with a rigid, frustrating, and boring cycle. Between the endless repeats, the "one strike and you're out" policy on questions, and the fact that it treats us like babies, it’s no wonder so many students dread it. We need tools that actually respect our intelligence and allow us to learn from our mistakes without dragging us back to square one. Until then, Zearn is just a daily exercise in frustration that makes us hate a subject we might actually be good at if it were taught differently.

TOWER OF POWER! It sucks! the amount of times I have cried at that stupid tower is to many to count but even if I got the number close Zearn would restart my memory to try to get the amount of times I have cried due to Zearn

It sucks my teacher said lets do zearn and I said no!!!!!