MathBoard for Android

This is a great app! But I lowered my approval because the time settings won’t retain my chosen setting (I tried to mark a countdown of 1 minute 20 seconds, and it keeps revertting to the previous setting, despite saving by clicking the OK button) and also because new interface is not as intuitive as I would desire. Fix the settings and I will give it four stars, and update the interface and it will be 5 stars.

As an accountant I work with numbers all day and this is a great app to refresh my mental arithmetic. However,an additional functionality in the preferences that would allow a user set an arbitrary time limit per problem would be awesome. For example, a set of 30 problems with only 2 seconds to solve before the program moves on to the next problem. When you get better you could set it down to 1 second. That would allow the user to know which problem sets he or she truly has memorized, and allow the user to focus on the weaker areas. Just spitballin.

i am a homeschool teacher. My five year-old is doing addition, subtraction, multiplication and division by herself successfully using this as a tool.

The Android version is hindered by the way answers are entered using the keyboard. The natural way of solving aditions or subtractions is to start from the lowest denominator digit to the highest. In this app, answers are entered from highest to lowest. This makes it very hard for a child to work the problems without the aid of paper and pencil.

I've just spent about 90 minutes and $10 downloading and trying out apps to help my boys (6 and 9) learn math. Many were just awful. This one is the one that I will keep and use. The problems are clear, the controls are robust, and there's enough history and statistics. I like how I can very carefully tune what will go into a quiz. I like the full screen nature of it. I like how I can have multiple "students", whose scores and histories will be different. I'm a bit of a nut about user interface, and out of all the math apps I tried, this is the ONLY one that allows logical use of the keyboard. On multiple choice questions, you can press "a" to answer "a". On fill-in-the-blank questions, you can type in "27" and hit enter. This is really valuable. Very few math apps allow ANY use of the keyboard at all. Many of their mouse interfaces are awful. This app gets it right. If I have any criticisms, they're mild. The settings are global to the whole app, not per-student. One of my boys is doing addition, the other is doing multiplication. I have to change settings each time one of them sits down. Some apps have a game-like earning mechanism. Over time the student gets some points, tokens, etc. for doing lots of problems. I like this aspect in some games because I see my boys respond to it. They want to earn high scores and advancements. Likewise, I think it's cool to have benchmarks and/or high-water marks in the stats. Things like "your average time" or "your best time" or "your best score" etc. Letting them compete against their personal best is good. This game doesn't include those, but it does include the main thing that I need most: math. And it gets the interface totally right.