My Take
Good for learning. but I dislike the way the questions are explained. Sometimes they can be difficult to understand. And no matter how much I tell them my students don't watch the videos, and the explanations are extremely straight forward. sometimes they include difficult terms that the kids don't know.
How I Use It
When i first showed them this they were excited for the Functions. almost 2 minutes later 5 kids ran up to me crying about their smart score. apparently they were on a roll until smartscore 90 where IXL threw them extremely difficult questions. I took a look and the questions they had to answer were almost impossible for them. They had recommended lessons but the questions they had to answer were way harder than the lesson was meant to be. The worst part was it didn't stop until they had a smart score of 0. I helped them and SOMEHOW THEY HAD 50/90. IXL was being WAYY too cruel. I had to spend 20 minutes calming them down about it.