Summer of Math Exposition

All in all quite beautifully made with visual examples. However, some explanations might be a little bit complicated to the target audience.

Take, for example: “Consider the sentence […] where the verb “enjoys” is a function with “My friend” and “maths” as its inputs.” Someone who knows what functions are and can thus understand the sentence is unlikely to be within the target audience. Also, some parts such as Polish Notation could be elaborated on more, as I for one am still not really able to grasp how it works after the explanation.

The way of showing the order of operations using a tree is great. However, I personally find the way of grouping things by dragging them upwards a little confusing and un-intuitive in practice. I believe instead allowing for a multiple select with a button to group the selected elements together might be easier.

The interactive explorer is also great, however, I for the life of me can’t figure out how to scroll the buttons of available symbols around to see beyond what is shown at first load.

I like this visual approach with algebra, especially the application which lets the student explore freely. The explanations are short and to the point, which is good, because it leaves more room for self inquiry (in the case of fixed time period allocated for studying).

Truly amazing. I am astounded by this different take on how to understand algebra visually. In particular as a visual thinker this would have made math in school so much easier to learn. Well done!

First and foremost: this looks like a very complete and holistic system for teaching algebraic equations. Personally, I have trouble following the logic, but I do not want that to be a black spot on this system. This may very well help certain children having trouble with these aspects of algebra understand it more intuitively. I like that you build how to use the tool step by step and grow to more complex examples with interactive modules.

Love the interactivity! the stacked blocks analogy is very intuitive

This is done really nice!

This is a wonderful tool for younger students to help visualize how math works!

The explanation is good and is very fun to play around with the blocks. I think it would be hard for younger kids to understand what’s happening and I think its a tool more built for around middle school. It doesn’t pull you in however so I think people who don’t enjoy maths would not be very engaged with the tool.

Initially I really liked the idea and the visuals. But when I started playing around with the examples I found it quite difficult to understand what I was supposed to do. I thought I could drag elements elements easily around to change the equations. For example, in the expression -3+(8+2x) I was hoping I could somehow resolve the brackets by dragging the 8 down from the sum block that consists of 8 and 2x. However, that did not work for me. So it is not really intuitive for me how to solve this through the options available.

So the idea is great in my opinion because it explains how to solve equations with a nice graphical interface but I was just not able to understand the interface from the tutorial provided.

Very unique idea and visuals, but I found the implementation harder to use than it needed to be.