Additionally, I appreciated that the app avoids being obnoxious when telling you that you’ve made a mistake. This approach allows you to practice and build on skills that will serve you later, without letter grades hanging over your head. You can start with the easiest concepts of multiplication problems, division, shapes and decimals and then slowly level up to the trickier concepts. The app succeeds in feeling more like a video game than the flash card sessions and work sheets most people hated in elementary school. Part of the app is meant for kids between the ages of 7 and 12, but the company says anyone looking to hone their math skills can use it.ĭuolingo Math app’s first brain training level. This app is over a year in the making and includes a “brain training” course designed to help users employ mental math in everyday settings by practicing basic math concepts. More than that, the team involved wanted to help make learning less stressful, while confronting pandemic-related learning loss. The app was made with a team of engineers and math scientists whose job it was to make sure that the lessons were relevant to what a student would need to know. Researchers found that a third of survey respondents would rather have dental surgery than solve algebraic equations and that roughly 30% of people would rather join a real-life “Squid Game” than take a three-hour college math test.įor those people, the East Liberty-based company dropped its Duolingo Math app today.
In anticipation of Duolingo Math, Duolingo’s first departure from its typically linguist-based learning apps, the Pittsburgh edtech company conducted a survey to gauge just how prevalent math anxiety was.
I know it’s dark, but I’m not alone in my aversion. If you bumped into me at the time the flu was making its rounds through my campus, I would’ve said it was a cosmic joke that I didn’t get sick and a fever wouldn’t be granting me a reprieve.
Any member of group chat and my wonderfully patient advisor knows that during my final year of college, in my dreams, I frequently saw a world where I failed my statistics final and didn’t graduate.
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