- Easy to understand and operate (just like the handheld FlashMaster®)
- On their own, students master–without needing an internet connection:
- Addition: 0+0=0 through 9+9=18
- Subtraction: 0-0=0 through 18-9=9
- Multiplication: 0×0=0 through 12×12=144
- Division: 0÷1=0 through 144÷12=12
- As little as 10 minutes per day required of student
- Minimal supervision required (none during practice)
- Can retain, display, email, and print all or part of lifetime results for each of up to 30 logged-in users on a single tablet—making it easy for parents and/or teacher to evaluate in detail:
- Type of activity practiced: “Table: In Order”; “Table: No Order”; “Practice”, “Test”, “Flashcards”, or “Special Problems”
- Arithmetic operation (+, -, ×, or ÷) practiced
- Number of the “Level” or “Table” from which problems generated
- Length of per-activity or per-problem time limit
- Number of problems attempted during activity
- Number and percentage of problems answered correctly
- The order in which the activities were performed,
- Etc.
- Students motivated by automatic display of results at the end of each activity and by parents and teachers’ ability to easily review all results at any time
- Extremely efficient use of students’ time:
- No time wasted by distracting computer games, by unnecessary keystrokes, or by tedious and time-consuming “rewards”
- Usable anywhere and at any time—the car, the kitchen, etc.
- Turns on quickly; useful even during TV commercials, etc.
- 9 “Levels” for each arithmetic operation:
- User can focus on problems that are currently most appropriate
- Minimal time wasted on problems that are too easy or too difficult
- Problems needing more practice presented more frequently
- Option to practice solely 15 recently-missed problems
- Option to practice solely 15 problems selected by user
- Time limits and displayed countdown of time limits motivate students to answer rapidly and instinctively:
- 8 alternative per-activity time limits: 30, 45, 60, 75, 90, 120, 150 & 180 seconds
- 11 alternative per-problem time limits: 9, 7, 5, 4, 3, 2.5, 2.0, 1.7, 1.5, 1.3, & 1.2 seconds
- Option of “hiding” from view the counting down of time limits
- Two introductory “table” activities do not use time limits but the time taken to complete them is timed.
- Ability to give same test on numerous tablets (same problems, same order)
- Ability to turn off sound effects
- Immediate visual feedback on accuracy of each answer, but not in “Test” activity
- Correct answer displayed when problem missed twice in a row, but not in “Test” and “Flashcards” activities
- 3 possible “problem formats”, for example: 1+2=?, ?+2=3, and 1+?=3