OVERVIEW

• Step 1: Signup

  Most of Math Allowance's exercises are available free without registration. With a free account, however, your child will get a tailored curriculum and individual reports to fit their needs.

  The signup page can be accessed here and you will have a chance to add accounts for your children after registration.

• Step 2: Placement exercise

  Upon login to their own accounts, children will be put through a short half-hour placement exercise. The exercise will go through key math skills and determine your child's abilities and areas of strengths and weaknesses to begin compiling a curriculum suited for your child.

  The placement exercise can be done in pieces, but we highly recommend that you supervise the entire process to ensure that your child is on task and focused when completing it. Nevertheless, Math Allowance continually assesses performance and adjusts lesson plans accordingly.

• Step 3: Choosing a reward

  Math Allowance simplifies education's toughest challenge for parents. How do you motivate your child to work on math problems without supervision or nagging?

  Our answer is to create the right incentives. We offer a reward to be unlocked by the child when they complete their unit. It is instant and we focus on achievements. We time the reward for moments of success that we celebrate with fanfare and praise. When unlocking the reward, your child gets to see what they have done well and how hard they've worked to achieve it.

  With a premium subscription on Math Allowance, you can tie a tangible reward with the sense of accomplishment. You can choose between a secret custom message or a gift card code to reward your child. If you choose a custom message, we suggest a promise, a riddle or a hidden gift. The goal is to reinforce motivation and pride with a tangible reward and instant gratification.

• Step 4: Homework

  Math Allowance aims to be a frustration-free learning experience. Your child has complete freedom to tackle a few math problems on their phone or to work through an extended session on a computer. The tools they need are all on the page and ready whenever and wherever they want.

  Our library of problems covers the most important math skills and topics, and it continues to grow. Each exercise comes complete with step by step solutions for every problem, and the right tools to complete the exercise. Your child won't fumble looking for graph paper, stare blankly at an impossible exercise, and they will not spend an eternity looking for the right formula on a page with tiny text. We have interactive tools and visual demonstrations for many of the exercises. Everything they need to learn and complete the problem is right on the page, nothing more and nothing less.

  As your child progresses, new levels are introduced to their lesson plan. Our algorithms are constantly looking at your child's performance in both accuracy and speed. If they need a refresher, review exercises are reintroduced, and if they are progressing quickly, we shuffle in new exercises.

  The entire design is about giving back freedom. Your child shouldn't need to work through Saturday morning cartoons or to feel lost when faced with a question they don't know how to do. Learning is tough enough without the extra challenges, so Math Allowance is designed to make life easier for everyone.

• Step 5: Report cards and home activities

  When your child reaches the end of the unit, they get their reward and you get yours. Our report cards are more than just pointless stats. We make it easy for you to stay involved in your child's education with a list of simple activities directly related to recent lessons.

  Our report cards include a set of activities that help you gauge your child's progress without helicoptering over them. You can show them how math is used in the real world, share an interesting factoid and be a part of their education.

  We know that parents today are busy. The activities we include are deliberately simple and short, but they are specific to the skills that your child has most recently worked on. The goal of the activities is to make math meaningful. They show why math is useful and important, they create memories, and most importantly, they build motivation to keep learning.