Homeschool Happenings: iKnowIt.com ~ A Review

iKnowIt.com is an amazing interactive math practice site that engages students in grades K-5 towards mastery of math skills and concepts. The math concepts in each grade level offer a wide variety of types of questions to help keep students engaged and interested in the material. Students receive instant reward and feedback along the way and are challenged mathematically. The program keep your students progress so that you as a parent can see exactly how your child is doing. The same team that operates SuperTeacherWorksheets.com created iKnowIt.com. Membership Pricing is available for many levels.

My daughter has been working through the 5th grade level of iKnowIt.com. She has enjoyed the freedom to choose from the many topics available in the 5th grade level. Within each topic there are subtopics to choose from. Each lesson consists of 15 questions. Parents are

able to create assignments for their students to complete. The student then simply

clicks on the My Assignment tab and completes the assignment that you have created

for them. I opted to let my daughter work independently and to let her choose what

she wanted to work through. At the beginning I told her that I wanted to to work through

each of the topics and not just work through what was easy for her. It was easy for me

to go in and check her progress to see what she was working on and to make sure that

she was working on a variety of topics. Giving her this independence made it seem not

so much like schoolwork.

Here are a few of the questions from the topics within the 5th grade level questions.

For younger students or for students that struggle with reading they can

click on the sound/speaker icon and have the question read to them. If your student is

using an iPad they can actually work their problems out on the iPad. There is a

Pencil icon that will appear. They simply touch on the icon and they will be able to

work the problems out on the iPad. Since my daughter was using our MacBook Pro

Laptop she had to do her work on paper.

If a student is unsure of how to begin a problem they can click on the hint button at the

bottom left hand corner of their screen and a hint box will pop up. The hint will help get

the student started on how to start the problem. In each subsection students are given

3 hints to use. I absolutely loved the idea behind the hint boxes! This helps the

student that may get discouraged and just needs a little bit of a help to get started.

This feature also is great in that it enables the student to work independently without having

to go to a parent to ask for help, enabling them to be more independent.

What student doesn't love to be praised for a job well done! Each time your student

answers a question correctly they are rewarded not only with a check mark, a written comment, but they also get an emoji face. When a student gets multiple problems correct in a row they will get a message such as, "Tic-tac-toe! 3 in a row!" Or if maybe they have been struggling to get answers right and they finally get one right the

message might say, "You got it that time!"

When a student gets a problem wrong the correct answer is displayed and then the problem

is worked out so that the student can see how the problem is supposed to look like.

I love this!!! So many programs just tell the students that they got it wrong and

move onto the next problem. The problem with that is the student has no way of knowing

why they got the problem wrong. I told my daughter to look at her problem and see

where she went wrong and to not move on until she understood why and how

she went wrong.

When the lesson is complete your student will get a certificate showing their score

for the lesson.

iKnowIt.com sends parents weekly e-mail updates letting them know about their

child's weekly progress. This is a neat feature.

I would most definitely recommend iKnowIt.com to others looking for math practice for their child. iKnowIt.com offers users a 60 day trial for FREE with no commitments to homeschoolers and teachers! I was extremely impressed with this program and

will most definitely continue to utilize it. The only sad part is that my

daughter is currently in the 5th grade and the program only goes up to 5th grade.

I hope that they add grade levels in the future!