Review of Think Through Math

My Take

My favorite aspect is the live teacher support for the students. When my students get stuck and I'm not available to help them, they can live chat with a Think Through Math teacher. A cool part of TTM is the progress bar at the top of the page that lets them know where they are in a lesson - pre-test, warm-up, guided practice, independent practice, or post-test. The warm-up is usually a game and the students find those to be very engaging. The guided practice and independent practice are more like traditional pencil and paper tasks (which means that they translate well to test-taking success!) and the students earn coins for completing these tasks. The coins are used for avatar accessories and the pricing and number accessories has kept my students engaged with TTM for months, where other programs either make it too hard or too easy to purchase reward items and the kids lose interest. The one thing I would suggest that TTM develop in the future, is a way to really support ELL students. There is a mathematical dictionary built in, but key words could be hyperlinked to the dictionary entry and entries could have more pictorial cues to assist ELLs.