Website – App Review
Name
Mangahigh
A manga is a Japanese cartoon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manga
Address
Grade Level
Kindergarten to high school
Subject
Math
Purpose
RTI – Practice - New Skills
Standards
Aligned to common core standards
Can choose activities or goals by standards
Admin
Can choose to use generic students and accounts
Can choose to upload student information – students have personal
account to measure growth and collect badges
Can create graphs of student achievement and growth –
exportable to excel
Age requirements
13 or permission from parents or school
TOS
By submitting any material to the
content to the Mangahigh Service, you:
1. are
representing that you are fully entitled to do so;
2. grant
us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, non-terminable licence to copy, modify,
distribute, show in public and create derivative works from that material in
any form, anywhere; and
3. authorise
us to adapt the relevant material in the course of doing so, and so waive your
moral rights to object to any derogatory treatment, or to be identified as the
author, of the material in question.
Or basically they can use your pictures or stuff in any way
they please as long as they please.
Cost
Free for US schools, may include outside advertising.
Other thoughts
When students log in they only show three challenges on first page, at the bottom of the
page are secret quests that charge money and it can be difficult to get out the
subscription page. (There is no exit or cancel, you must back up)
The analytics are pretty simple.
I think the games are great. For example in a game for younger students, finding sums up to 100, they sometimes asked which expressions equaled 100, of the three expressions sometimes they had one right answer and sometimes there were two.
I rushed through the starting page right away as most students would, but still figured out most of the games.
If you stop for a second and ask for some help there are some pretty decent help screens, but I don't know how well they would actually teach.
As we move into the upper grades it seems the math is less
of a skill to be learned but a tool needed to solve the game. The math often
depends more on visual senses than calculating math. This is a great way to get
the need for math without the boredom of actually calculating a lot of math.
Though yes there are games will require students to do some calculations. If the students have no idea what they are supposed to do the math help is a great tool for what math they should use, but not very good on how to figure out the game. They should go back to the beginning and figure that out themselves.
After finishing one challenge there is a wait before they can go on to the next challenge. Students are encouraged to click and join a quest so they don't have to wait. I hate to ask students to buy something during the middle of class.
Screen shots taken from magnahigh.com on August 24, 2012.
