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Optimised for a quick responseWhat is Mathigon?
Mathigon is the “Textbook of the Future” for secondary mathematics. The unique content format makes maths more interactive than ever before, and a virtual personal tutor provides real-time feedback.
Unlike videos or conventional textbooks, students have to actively engage at every step – through problem solving, critical thinking, and creativity.
Mathigon is completely free to use, and works on all browsers and mobile devices.
Recommended Usage
30 minutes per week
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Educational Impact
Devices for every student with access to the internet (e.g. Chromebooks or iPads
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Mathigon Pricing
Free Version
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Mathigon Reviews
from 15 Verified Reviews
User rating
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Abdul Basit Khan
Student
Saudi Arabia
Used Mathigon daily for 0–3 months
Jun 2022
Abdul Basit Khan found Mathigon:
- Significantly saves school money“No more tutors”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“More interactive makes you interested in the topic and you don't want to stop learning”
- Significantly improves parent engagement“They want me to keep using mathigon as it improves my grades”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“It teaches stuff that you wouldn't normally know or learn like how pi was invented more than 500 years ago”
Sue Ausman
Mt. Olive Elementary, United States
Used mathigon--textbook-of-the-future for Over one year
Feb 2019
I like that it is authentic and provides deep and complex understanding of math concepts in interesting and engaging manner.
Sue Ausman found mathigon--textbook-of-the-future:
- Significantly builds student knowledge“My gifted students love the interactivity of several links and the puzzles which are very open ended.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency and productivity“It is easier for me to use the website to demonstrate math concepts than to try and show students. The website is laid out very efficiently.”
- Not significantly saves school money
- Not provides school data
- Significantly teach-problem-solvings
- Significantly improves creativity and critical thinking“Puzzles develop critical thinking in interesting manner.”
- Moderately improves creativity and critical thinking“Puzzles develop critical thinking in interesting manner.”
- Slightly improves parent engagement“Students are very interested in the puzzles, but some may not be task committed enough to follow through. That’s typical of gifted students.”
Sophia
I'm homeschooled, United States
Used mathigon--textbook-of-the-future for Maybe 2 or 3 months
Jan 2019
Sophia found mathigon--textbook-of-the-future:
- Significantly builds student knowledge“The interactivity really brings context to the math, which for my brother, is the difference between understanding and confusion.”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency and productivity
- Slightly saves school money
- Slightly provides school data
- Significantly teach-problem-solvings
- Significantly improves creativity and critical thinking“Very much like the above. The problems that are posed on Mathigon are well-thought-out and apply math properly in the real world.”
- Significantly improves creativity and critical thinking“Very much like the above. The problems that are posed on Mathigon are well-thought-out and apply math properly in the real world.”
- Slightly improves parent engagement
Dylan
Ratton, UK
Used mathigon--textbook-of-the-future for 2 years
Jan 2019
It is a brilliant thing that is helpful to all people of all ages who are wanting to learn maths for tests or are just looking to have some fun!
Dylan found mathigon--textbook-of-the-future:
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Helps me understand the method ”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Sometimes even helps the teacher! ”
- Moderately saves school money“It helps with different platforms but is free so we don't have to spend money on new websites ”
- Significantly provides school data“Since we used it, the classes grades have gone up ”
- Moderately teach-problem-solvings
- Slightly improves creativity and critical thinking“It gives a new line of thought to solve the problem ”
- Significantly improves creativity and critical thinking“It gives a new line of thought to solve the problem ”
- Significantly improves parent engagement“I like maths more since we used it. It is fun ”
Ralph Backé
Sargent Park, Canada
Used mathigon--textbook-of-the-future for On and off for a year
Jan 2019
Have not used it with students.
Ralph Backé found mathigon--textbook-of-the-future:
- Slightly builds student knowledge“Haven't yet used it with students.”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Still getting to know program”
- Slightly saves school money“Have not used Mathigon at school yet.”
- Slightly provides school data“See last”
- Slightly teach-problem-solvings
- Slightly improves creativity and critical thinking“See last”
- Slightly improves creativity and critical thinking“See last”
- Slightly improves parent engagement“See last”
jean boro
latborough, UK
Used mathigon--textbook-of-the-future for 6
Jan 2019
jean boro found mathigon--textbook-of-the-future:
- Moderately builds student knowledge
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency and productivity
- Not significantly saves school money
- Moderately provides school data
- Slightly teach-problem-solvings
- Slightly improves creativity and critical thinking
- Significantly improves creativity and critical thinking
- Not significantly improves parent engagement
Julian
University of Waterloo, Canada
Used mathigon--textbook-of-the-future for 2 years
Jan 2019
Really helpful and free!
Julian found mathigon--textbook-of-the-future:
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Taught me fundamental ideas behind parts of calculus”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Very well put together textbook style learning, interactivity greatly enhances knowledge retention”
- Significantly teach-problem-solvings
- Significantly improves creativity and critical thinking“Interactivity”
- Moderately improves creativity and critical thinking“Interactivity”
- Significantly improves parent engagement“makes math more fun”
Daniel Aguirre
Open University, Mexico
Used mathigon--textbook-of-the-future for 2 months
Jan 2019
For a platform that is still in development, the core ideas/strategies that the developers use when creating new content are very effective for students like me and many others.
Daniel Aguirre found mathigon--textbook-of-the-future:
- Significantly builds student knowledge“It helps me to review certain topics in more depth but with the simplicity of the way Mathigon teaches these materials.”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Working through the proposed activities is very efficient because Mathigon is interactive an quite dynamic in the way it presents them.”
- Slightly saves school money“It probably saves more time than money, because I still have to buy textbooks.”
- Slightly provides school data
- Moderately teach-problem-solvings
- Moderately improves creativity and critical thinking“The activities/problems often requires you to think outside the box.”
- Significantly improves creativity and critical thinking“The activities/problems often requires you to think outside the box.”
- Significantly improves parent engagement“The activities/problems are not boring at all. The examples given when teaching any topic are interesting and sometimes even exciting.”
Mary
Cardinal Newman Catholic School, UK
Used mathigon--textbook-of-the-future for 6 months
Jan 2019
very interesting way of accessing maths, but difficult to work into the curriculum
Mary found mathigon--textbook-of-the-future:
- Slightly builds student knowledge“Its builds students interest more than knowledge ”
- Not significantly improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Not making a large impact”
- Moderately teach-problem-solvings
- Moderately improves creativity and critical thinking“there are good all class investigations/activities which we have used”
- Moderately improves creativity and critical thinking“there are good all class investigations/activities which we have used”
- Moderately improves parent engagement“some students have gone away and accessed from home”
Kevin
Dakota State University, United States
Used mathigon--textbook-of-the-future for 6 months
Jan 2019
I'm really impressed with the technology and how the lesson adapts to the user with embedded activities that are engaging.
Kevin found mathigon--textbook-of-the-future:
- Significantly builds student knowledge
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency and productivity
- Moderately saves school money“They don't have to purchase expensive math curriculum.”
- Slightly provides school data
- Slightly teach-problem-solvings
- Slightly improves creativity and critical thinking
- Slightly improves creativity and critical thinking
- Slightly improves parent engagement
Claire
City and islington suxth form college, UK
Used mathigon--textbook-of-the-future for 1 month
Jan 2019
I haven’t really used mathigon but I loved the advent calendar and want to investigate further
Claire found mathigon--textbook-of-the-future:
- Slightly builds student knowledge
- Not significantly improves teaching efficiency and productivity
- Slightly teach-problem-solvings
- Slightly improves creativity and critical thinking
- Slightly improves creativity and critical thinking
- Slightly improves parent engagement“The advent calendar”
Tamara
Xviii. Gimnazija, Croatia
Used mathigon--textbook-of-the-future for 2 years
Jan 2019
It is a great resourse of quality math material, put together in an interesting way, very well categorized
Tamara found mathigon--textbook-of-the-future:
- Moderately builds student knowledge“Better understanding through applying in creative tasks”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Can’t remember”
- Slightly provides school data
- Significantly teach-problem-solvings
- Slightly improves creativity and critical thinking
- Significantly improves creativity and critical thinking
- Moderately improves parent engagement“Award system for solving ”
Nika
XVIII. gimnazija, Croatia
Used mathigon--textbook-of-the-future for 2 months
Jan 2019
Some quastions are too hard
Nika found mathigon--textbook-of-the-future:
- Moderately builds student knowledge“It helps me in soving some math tasks.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Students implement stuff they learn on this site in solving tasks in class.”
- Slightly saves school money
- Slightly provides school data
- Significantly teach-problem-solvings
- Slightly improves creativity and critical thinking“Not really”
- Moderately improves creativity and critical thinking“Not really”
- Slightly improves parent engagement
Wali Ullah Baloch
Government High school, Pakistan
Used mathigon--textbook-of-the-future for 4 months
Jan 2019
Yes it's good but need more improvement
Wali Ullah Baloch found mathigon--textbook-of-the-future:
- Significantly builds student knowledge“It helps teachers in their teaching style”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency and productivity“We learn advance techniques and methods”
- Moderately saves school money“New ways to improve low cost techniques”
- Slightly provides school data“It helps to improve school administration while treating students record and other affairs”
- Significantly teach-problem-solvings
- Moderately improves creativity and critical thinking“Yes some time it's helps both teacher and students”
- Moderately improves creativity and critical thinking“Yes some time it's helps both teacher and students”
- Significantly improves parent engagement“This will help students to involve students in much eligant way so that they think more creative way”
Craig
Hanoi university of science and technology, Viet Nam
Used mathigon--textbook-of-the-future for 2 years
Jan 2019
A very good tool with easy understand any concepts
Craig found mathigon--textbook-of-the-future:
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Student can fully underdtand the concepts and application of it to solve problem”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency and productivity“A visualize tool to represent knowledge ”
- Slightly saves school money
- Slightly provides school data
- Significantly teach-problem-solvings
- Significantly improves creativity and critical thinking“Student ask more question than before to make sure her/him fully understand requirements”
- Moderately improves creativity and critical thinking“Student ask more question than before to make sure her/him fully understand requirements”
- Significantly improves parent engagement
