There is many big incidents with IXL. Thinkster math is much better! It doesn’t even deserve to get 1 star. I am barely seeing positive reviews just because this website is so bad. Wait? you pay for this! This is $10 a month. I do not finish my work on time oftenly because of this stupid website is like math tests every day. When you get it wrong at 99. They challenge me on the next skill I did. It only took 2 mistakes at 99 to get 99 wrong 2 times in 1 skill! IXL has serious problems. They don’t give videos. They think 1 + 1 = 1. IXL should not be a website. 20 years of IXL, and children are not having good times. It is not fun like other learning sites. The point system for me I get like 1-3 points for the right answer and it deducts 6-8 points for a wrong answer! If you get it wrong, then you would have to spend a few minutes extra doing math per wrong answer! In conclusion, ixl is a horrible website. I had to do homework and it was not fun. IXL is supposed to be fun. It is not worth $10 per month. I got it wrong at 99 a total of 3 times!
Ever since the teachers in my school have discovered IXL, it has honestly ruined me just half a month later after! You have to pass the challenge zone on ixl which is 5/14 of the questions if you didn't get any wrong. If you get one wrong in multiplication 6th grade, then it is a whole math class extra! One skill has took me 5 hours! This is horrible and makes kids cry. One person said "IXL has my child staying up till 11:00 pm!"
I ended up finding IXL, a site that supposedly 'made education fun.' Yeah, sure. So I downloaded the program, and my hopes were high. I decided to try it out myself, just to have a taste. Well, in a few minutes, those hopes crashed and burned. One person also said "The site uses a point system which is supposed to encourage learning. This point system does the exact opposite, it causes children to lose interest."
Little Tim has worked hard on one skill. He is almost done! Oh no! A question with something he doesn't understand! Now Tim is frustrated. He went from 99 to 89. Even worse - It can turn the nicest into the meanest kid there could be because of all the stress this causes. Like many people said, be at 99, miss a small sign like a negative, and drop to 85!
We were using IXL at class one day, then my classmate got it wrong at 99, then dropped down to 72! IXL thinks it's okay to add an extra probably 10 minutes of work per wrong answer!
