Review of Maphi

The other day I stumbled across an app that is new to me.  It is call Maphi and it works on helping students learn to do the process of solving  problems by moving terms around to eliminate them as in moving a negative to its positive results in zero or canceling fractions

The app is free and has students work their way through the tutorial so they learn more about how the program actually works.











 The tutorial section has students review basic arithmetic, variables, working with negative numbers and basic fractions.  Each section has you work through problems

In addition to the tutorial section, students work through the distributive law, fractions, and linear equations.

Each section is broken down into smaller topics so students can work through each one with immediate feedback, hints, and it prints each step at the top for the student. 

Then at the end of the topic, there is a final test covering everything they worked on.

Example of a problem with negatives.

Distributive property subtopics

Fraction subtopics and prerequisite needed before attempting this.

I am not sure how I feel about just moving terms around to work through it but I do like the immediate feedback and it is based on gamification.  I do like the way students work through the problems with hints and a record of what is going on.

If you've used it, I'd love to hear your feelings on this app.  Have a great day.