ZEARN DOES NOT HELP WITH LEARNING IN FACT IT CAUSES ME TO LOSE BRAINCELLS DO NOT RECOMEND PETITION TO BAN ZEARN IN EVERY NOOK AND CRANY OF THE EARTH.
I HATE IT
Zearn is not a shop so I don't know.
Zearn doesn't teach me math, it teaches me how to break my computer, now i am madddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd
Imagine this, you get on your computer and get on a lovely site that is actually fun, interesting, and makes sense. That is the exact opposite of Zearn. Zearn is a crazy company that will rot a child's brain, and makes problems like 2 + 2 too complicated.
For example, when you first log in to Zearn, you have to do a "Number gym," exercise with super annoying math problems like "addition magician." I know how to add 3+18, so why are they making it so difficult? They make us split the three into two and one, if you don't put the numbers in the right order, they will make you restart the whole lesson! Zearn adds too many steps to your lessons to the point where it doesn't even make sense. I think it would be better if they show the BEST way to answer instead of making a billion steps.
There is another "Number Gym" called "Count the Cosmo's." In this activity you skip count. Ok, I get it, skip counting is important, but for 5th graders! No, I don't think that 5th graders have to work on skip counting every two days when we have been practicing it for over five years! Additionally if you get a skip counting question wrong, you have to restart the whole activity. Can you imagine how annoying it is to have to start over if you accidentally miss click or get something wrong!
Also, sometimes, in the middle of a lesson, the site will just restart, or when you almost finish a lesson, it will stop saving and say "unable to save." This is so annoying, because we spend lots of time on that one lesson then we just have to restart.
After you somehow finish that part of the lesson, you will continue to "Blast" which will review a part of the lesson (not really). One of the activities in "Blast" is "Sprint." In Sprint you will have one minute to answer an infinite list of questions.This part of the lesson is not super bad, but it is a HUGE waste of time. For example, after you finish the "Sprint," you will check your answers and re-answer the questions that you miss, which I understand. If you get a good score, you have to do a bonus round, Which is just doing "Sprint" two times. It's as if you get a punishment for doing well!
When you finish "Blast," you move on to your actual lesson, this is where it gets even more annoying. The lesson is basically a video that has a bunch of pausing points in the lesson where you do math. But the math is so complicated! They want us to way more than we should. For example, they want us to do so many math problems that take two steps a billion! Why are we still using Zearn!
In addition to that, Zearn makes people cry and almost break their chrome books! There is this one student that cries so often because of Zearn. My whole class wants to stop using Zearn.
The last part of the Zearn lesson is horrible and called "The Tower of Power." Here there is a "tower" that you have to climb with each question right. But if you get it wrong you have to try again then if you get it wrong again, it gives you a "boost," A boost is were Zearn will help you (not really)But the thing is, it will restart you on whatever section you are on and act as if you don't know anything and you did not just spend one hour trying to learn stuff in Zearn.
Even though Zearn is non-profit, and has mostly "good reviews."
Sometimes even my TEACHERS do not understand what Zearn's doing. They all said they did math a different way growing up, and they're math teachers. I believe their experience is important, and teaching us how they learned is better than all of Zearn's lessons.
This is why I think Zearn is a bad application for school's to use. Math class used to be fun, but now, it is not because of Zearn.
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Let's just say I have gone through hell itself because I have done this for 6 YEARS! Whoever designed this is in kahoots with the devil. All of the "wild cards" are cringey and or cursed and make you want to puke. The math chats are long and boring, the tower of power is purely unfair and will reset you if you make a single mistake or misclick, and don't even get me started on the sprint (and they don't even care if you do nothing during it, horrible design). The websites home page looks like a #$#ing doctors office, and there are SOOOOO many images and experiences of people being mistaught by this god-forsaken he11ho13! Plus, it's super linear and teachers have to completely revolve their lessons around some program made by a yah00. It had opportunities, but they just decided to ruin it. Curse whoever made this. If you're reading this creators of zearn, BURN 1N H311!
WE MUST RISE AGAINST THE INFERNAL HOT MESS THAT IS ZEARN! SIGN THE PETITIONS! ASK YOUR CHILDREN! WE MUST DESTROY ZEARN!
Teachers if your sane save your students sanity while you can!
Use IXL or khan academy or even xtra math (I hate it too)! Anything else is better! Don’t fall for it like my teachers did!
My sanity my childhood and 1igm@