Socrative Teacher vs Photomath

"Great online tool for quick formative checks" What do you like best about Socrative? Easily administered. Saves all my quizzes, et. for me Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Socrative? I need to maintain a Pro account in order to have additional rooms. This is money that I have to spend out of my own pocket to have a useful tool for my students. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Socrative solving and how is that benefiting you? Can have differentiated quizzes for students. Can scramble questions so there is less chance of students sharing answers.

- Christy J.

"The Amazingness that is Socrative" What do you like best about Socrative? Ease in creating, testing, recording grades. Socrative does all of the data disaggregation for you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Socrative? Nothing. The only thing that would make this 100% perfect is if Socrative added the ability for the user to select for the questions to be read aloud for students who have accommodations. That would be so incredibly incredibly time-saving and benefical, as I currently have to create separate tests for those students. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Socrative solving and how is that benefiting you? Data disaggregation, ease and efficiency, record keeping, visuals with testing, ease in combining tests.

- Jami S.

"Easy to use for instructor and students" What do you like best about Socrative? Socrative is a great tool for in-class low-stakes formative assessment. It allows for the students to gauge their understanding and the instructor to gauge how the class is doing over all. Do they get it and can move on or do we need to re-cover some things? It is very easy to use and can be moved into and out of multiple times during the class time without disruption. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Socrative? On the administrative side, the only problem I have is that the scores cannot be bulk downloaded. You have to download each quiz separately. If you have multiple small quizzes per day then it can take a *long* time to download all of the grades into your grade book. Why is there no option to download grades from multiple quizzes at once? I'd give a 10/10 if this were resolved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Socrative: set up the quizzes ahead of time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Socrative solving and how is that benefiting you? The biggest problem this solves is getting timely feedback to me and the students on their understanding.

- Michael K.

It's pretty neat to see Photomath in action, but kids may not learn much from the experience. Each step of a solution can be displayed, but explanations aren't provided, which limits how much kids may understand. Ideally, kids will use the app if they occasionally struggle with an equation and want to see the individual steps for solving it. Kids can also use it to check their work, although traditional methods, like substitution, are much more valuable when it comes to learning. The greatest concern about this tool is that it raises the possibility of academic cheating, and may send kids a message to take the easy route when it comes to learning.

- Debbie G

My Take As a math tutor, I see kids from kindergarten to 12th grade. Sometimes I'll get asked a question on a problem I don't know or don't remember how to solve. I would use this app ask a teaching tool so that I may relearn the process on how to solve the problem, then I would later explain it to the student. I would not recommend this to a student because, students can easily use this app to solve questions without learning the material. But i would definitely recommend this to educators to help them relearn the concept. How I Use It This app is very simple to use. Just take a picture of any math problem and the app will explain step by step on how to solve that problem. Or you can type your question and will also provide step by step instruction on how to solve the question.

- Andres H.

I’ve been using this app for 2+ years already and it is truly a life saver. I use it mostly for checking if my home work is correct and it is amazing. Explains everything that happened in the equation in an easy to understand manner. I also very much like the app’s appearance for some reason, it’s very clean and elegant. All of this being said, after all of this time enjoying it I cannot use it anymore. This being because my phone’s camera broke. When it first broke, the app kept working fine. I could still use the calculator that is in the app, but I had to delete the app for some time because I needed space on my phone. When school started once again I downloaded it and the app won’t even let me use the calculator because my camera isn’t compatible. Needless to say I regret deleting it, I don’t understand why it doesn’t work now when it did before and my camera wasn’t working. I really wish you could use the app even if your camera wasn’t working, or at least make it so you can use the frontal camera on your phone, I have seen the frontal camera support in other math apps (none of them are as good as this one though).

- Alejand Rikiti