Students show their work. You see every step.
MathPad is a math pad that lays problems out the way you put them on the board. Students fill in one box at a time, MathPad checks each digit, and a guide offers hints instead of answers.
What you can use right now.
The layout you teach
Column addition, subtraction and multiplication with carry and borrow cells, partial-product rows, and long division with quotient, product, difference and bring-down rows.
Explanation mode
Walk a solved problem forward one step at a time, with the guide explaining each step in plain words. Handy on a projector or a shared screen.
Exact answer keys
Practice sets come from MathPadās math engine, which does the arithmetic exactly. When a grown-up scans a worksheet, the engine recomputes every add, subtract, multiply and divide answer.
More than arithmetic
Fractions, area, perimeter and angles, plotting points and reading slope and intercept, and solving for x, from kindergarten through 12th grade.
Classroom accounts.
We are building teacher accounts now. Here is what they are designed to do. Details may change before launch.
- Create classes of up to 50 students, each with its own join code.
- Assign practice sets to students in your class.
- Review the steps each student typed, not just the final answer.
- Leave notes on a studentās work that the student and their parents can read.
- A separate teacher sign-in, kept apart from student and parent accounts.
One page per method, ready to share with families.
Each guide has a worked example checked by MathPadās math engine, the usual mistakes and the grades it shows up in.
- Addition with regrouping
- Subtraction with borrowing
- Multi-digit multiplication
- Long division
- Adding and subtracting decimals
- Adding and subtracting fractions
- Place value
- Times tables
Longer walk-throughs, like partial products vs the standard algorithm, are on the blog.
Try the pad before your next lesson.
Sign in free with an email link and work a few problems the way your students would. The K-12 Classroom plan is coming soon; the Pricing page shows what it will include.