Excellent new discovery, great help for teachers
Community Review for Anton
My Take
I've been working with Anton for my the lessons for a while.
I find it really stimulating for the students and it also makes learning a little bit more fun. Students can download the app for free and, surprisingly, it's ad-free.
The app offers all of the subjects I teach (Math, Science and English) and from what I've seen many others like Music and Social Studies.
The exercises are very fun, short, to the point and easy to understand, so they fit as the perfect complement for a lesson. I've noticed some students have even started to use the app independently outside of the classroom.
There are also nice games apparently aimed for younger students, which they can play using the coins they earn each time they complete and exercise. So it is some kind of virtuous circle; the more they learn, the more they play games.
Of course there are still some things that can be improved and I hope they will soon expand their curriculum to the higher grades. Until then, I just recommend this app for teachers willing to bring some freshness into their classrooms.
How I Use It
Anton is apparently designed according to the American school curriculum and that makes it easy to implement with my students.
Usually, I look find the exercises using the search function and filtering by grade. By tipping a key word, I can easily find out if the subjects I'm looking for are already available in Anton's releases (which for the grades I teach is mostly the case). Then I choose the exercises that would go well for each lesson and either we check them together in class or I leave them as homework.