Last updated on 5 October 2014
MathChat is a mobile application for smartphones and tablets that allows to solve mathematical problems with several.
MathChat is a tool that really impressed me with its playful and pedagogical functions. Impressed also by the technical prowess that the development of this type of solution presupposes.
MathChat allows from his mobile and even more easily his tablet pose a mathematical problem and try to solve it. Above all, it offers the possibility to ask for help from other students, friends or even teachers. The app allows people to be invited by a simple email to see the exercise on the screen.
These assistants will therefore be able to engage with the student who invited them via an integrated chat system (hence the title of the application). They will be able to interact with him/her, advise him/her and accompany him/her. And if that is not enough MathChat goes further and allows caregivers to draw remotely on the learner’s screen. That's great.
MathChat also offers the student a problem-checking function. The student will be able to check that his/her result is good. The application will check step by step whether the operations are good as well as the final result. The student will also be rewarded with an integrated prize system.
MathChat's design is a real success. The creators have thought of everything including optimizing an input keyboard that allows and facilitates the transcription of mathematical problems such as fractions or exponentials.
MathChat is free and usable by all. Teachers can, if they wish, register separately and create virtual classrooms to offer exercises to their students and allow them to collaborate with each other and with each other. (Of course it is still necessary to have classes equipped with tablets for example …)
In terms of regrets, the fact that MathChat is only available on the iOs system and therefore remains reserved for owners of iPhones or iPads.
Link: MathChat
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