I currently am a teacher candidate, enrolled in a K-6 Mathematics Methods course. For this class, we were required to critically analyze a few apps that are available to implement into your classroom. One such app was Math Splash Bingo.
Personally, I felt that this app would be a good technological tool to use for reviewing students' addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division skills. It provides students with the opportunity to answer a variety of problems and gives the correct solution after the student has answered the question. However, it only provides the correct number sentence; it does not provide students with an explanation of why their answer was incorrect or why the correct answer is truly correct. I feel that this app could be improved if there were explanations given.
Another improvement that this app could use is only allowing a Bingo to occur if a student has correctly answered five in a row. I don't know if it was a glitch in the system or just part of the program, but I noticed that no matter if a number was correct or incorrect, if that space had been touched, it counted towards being part of five in a row, so students could potentially get a Bingo with no correct answers. I feel as if that almost defeats the purpose of the app containing mathematical content because some students may just hit random numbers rather than actually focusing on solving the problem to get a Bingo.
Overall, I felt that this app would be a helpful, but non-required tool in the classroom. I probably wouldn't spend a lot of money for this program due to it allowing a Bingo whether or not the answers are correct. I feel that it would be a good review tool for students to work on their mathematical skills.