Maths Sparx Learning Reviews 288

Terrible just terrible

I have been using this for school for almost two years. The insane burnout (especially with maths) that I got because of homework. At the time I would have "1 hour" of homework (which took way longer due to the difficulty) I would also have a couple more pieces though not as long as sparx. The bookwork checks are ridiculous an might I add. I am in top set but sparx maths makes me feel stupid and you can get 1 hour detentions for not doing all of your homework in my school. The work is tiring and almost perfect isn't enough. With my sparx book the answers and working out gets far more mechanical. Sparx tries to teach perfection as satisfactory as an expected result. Anything less is incompleted or cites more bookwork checks. Sometimes I have 11 parts of one question (I will have 5 questions. So one code may be 2K or 1I) I would not suggest sparx for anyone it honestly makes me hate one of my previous favourite subjects

As someone who has to use this app/website on a weekly basis I can say it is TERRIBLE. For as long as I can remember I loved maths but when Sparx came along it ruined my spark for maths making it another subject to hate. A supposed '20 minute' task takes over an hour to complete and huge amounts of procrastination. Needing to answer questions we never learnt to solve until we get them correct is TEDIOUS as even if we do 99 percent of the work it is still counted as nothing. Overall I think the concept of this app is horrible and should be fixed or deleted.

I don’t believe in religion but I believe this was what god meant when he talked about the antichrist. A fallen angel, once at the highest of heights, O’ Hegarty maths may we see your vibrant light once more. But it was tortured and maimed into a ghastly vile unholy cancer that inhabits
The Earth like a virus. Our days must truly be near their end if this is what we are holding up as a breakthrough in learning.

I was honestly enjoying maths for the first couple of years in secondary school, then early year 9 they introduced sparx maths. It is genuinely horrific mainly down to the 100% completion policy which allows absolutely no wiggle room for mistakes or areas where you could improve. You don’t get 100%? Oh well have fun coming back for an hour. Bookwork checks are also ridiculous, actually forcing you to have an exercise book with you to write the answers in makes it feel less like revision and more like an utter chore. The videos also barely help, with the teacher always sounding dry and the explanations being difficult to follow. Sparx maths itself feels like a punishment, it feels like it was made for the teacher’s convenience rather than the student’s future. It’s just a dry and boring joke of a homework assignment that has nothing good going for it. Get rid of bookwork checks, they don’t do anything and are just irritating and make the support actually engaging and useful.

Hilariously Bad
Yes, sparx maths. The math app.
Going onto sparx math feels like entering a room where someone died before. Whoever designed this app must hate children because it's so badly designed to the point that it is actively against learning. Get a question wrong 3 times in a row? Do it again. It doesn't matter how close you were to finishing it. It gives no feedback on where you went wrong, and you have to figure it out yourself.

The "videos" are a bunch of nonsense, you'll be on a, lets say, question about the area of a square. If you're confused and want to watch a video, it'll start talking about calculating the area of a trapezium.

The teachers see everything, at least for me, a worry about doing homework too slowly or too quickly could give teachers the wrong impression. Sparx tracks literally everything, from the time spent on each question, how many times you got it wrong, if you watched the video. Just unnecessary information put to display. I understand correct to incorrect ratio is important for figuring out what to consolidate later on. However its' like as soon as you're on Sparx, you feel like your every move is being tracked and recorded. Did I mention it literally tracks you from the moment you open the homework. That's not gentle progress checking, its total surveillance.

Every now and again, it asks for the answer for any question that was previously answered. Expecting an already excruciating half an hour to be dragged even longer by writing each question and answer in a physical book. Credit where credit is due, the old system of making it make you redo the question was the worst. And they made it into, guess what, another traceable stat for teachers to see! Who would've guessed?

Kids who have perfect behavior avoid using this app because they quite literally can't stand it. I've seen many cases when people who have never skipped a piece of homework in their lives start coming with half-off excuses on why they opened it and never did a question. They look at it, try a bit, and give up because of its horrible attitude to learning.

It needs to be more like sparx science, which is still pretty bad, but there's an "I don't know button" for those who genuinely don't know, and it will trigger a step by step guide which I believe is actually helpful. A lot more needs to change before it comes good enough to be as widely used as it is now.

Absolutely terrible, forces my whole school to do it and if we don’t they send a email every week to our parents

Horrible. Absolutely horrible. First, the 100% completion trap: on Sparx Maths, it is programmed to put your homework down as 'incomplete' unless you have completed all questions correctly. No 'partial credit' no '90% complete'. If you've gotten 9/10 questions right, in the view of Sparx Math that means absolutely nothing. The bookwork itself is also just really badly programmed: The 'Bookwork' that comes up at randomized times during the time you are doing your homework gives no support whatsoever. It has no purpose other than to make kids feel bad they couldn't remember an answer. IXL Math and IReady in America are already brutal in their own ways but really any other Sparxs platform has its own unique way to make kids cry.

worlds worst maths learning app, bookwork checks are a waste of time which nobody (including me) does

So listen up.All sparx Maths is (yes, sparx without a capital letter is meaningful), is a MONEY GRINDER for teacher to pay for. This.Needs.To.Change.

its makes my week stressful and math even worst its terrible

The website includes things like book checks, which ask you what an answer was to a previous question, it’s alright but annoying in theory. But if someone has dyslexia, then they might put in the wrong answer and it can be soul crushing, also if you get a question wrong 3 times, it just straight up switches it fully unprompted. No option to swap, no choice, just ‘idk just deal with it’. Also, the ‘help videos’ sound like they have 60 year old depressed people who have nothing else to do, and the question theyre doing has almost no relevance to the actual question itself, leaving you alone wondering how to do it. As a former maths enjoyer, this website has made me absolutely hate it and I wish I don’t have to do it in the future.

I was mid rage on SparX math times tables when it said let’s learn it when I got a question wrong. Is this toddler work or something ? Wouldn’t recommend the timestables even ttrs is better than this 😩😩

Absoulutely horrible. You have to sit there for three hours straight straight wondering why the questions dont work and it even traps you with repetitive loops trapping you in a cycle!

Creates an infinite loop of suffering where even smart students are punished with harder questions and struggling students are not given help

Absolutely Clunky, Useless and a form of torture. Sparx Maths actively tells you to put the wrong answer and even if it is close it will RESET THE QUESTION AND YOU WILL HAVE TO REDO THE WHOLE THING! I spend hours on hours on this and it gives you poor quality questions. The questions makes me HATE MATHS. I used to enjoy it but the repetitiveness of the section is hateful (45Q PLUS!). THE BBOKWORK CHECKS! I have too write down EVERYTHING! I literarily just don't do them. USELESS.

So to begin, questions are almost always put in 'Bookwork Checks' Which is onl there to annoy you because who writes what work they do on a PHONE/Computer in some notepad tab. Secondly, it constantly goes and makes you do questions you haven't learnt in school yet, and this has lead to many hours of my days on this app, crying, and E.g if I started at 8AM I'd most likely finish at 2PM. This... This isn't even all...

i still come back to this algebra, crappy maths solving ai ridden hellscape.
they killed hegarty maths.
no 80% pass.
nothing is good enough.
#bringbackhegarty

This is the shietiest website ever. Absolutely horrible. These stupid questions and random ahh bookwork checks is the worst possible thing a student would ever have to deal with. It is very bad for learning as deadlines are hard to meet and the repetitive questions disengage learning. It is bad for teaching. It will more likely disadvantage users rather than help them.