What is Mathigon?
Mathigon is the “Textbook of the Future” for secondary mathematics. The unique content format makes maths more interactive than ever before, and a virtual personal tutor provides real-time feedback.
Unlike videos or conventional textbooks, students have to actively engage at every step – through problem solving, critical thinking, and creativity.
Mathigon is completely free to use, and works on all browsers and mobile devices.
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Mathigon Reviews
from 15 Verified Reviews
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Abdul Basit Khan
Student
Used Mathigon daily for 0–3 months
Jun 2022
Abdul Basit Khan found Mathigon:
- Saves school money“No more tutors”
- Improves teaching efficiency“More interactive makes you interested in the topic and you don't want to stop learning”
- Improves parent engagement“They want me to keep using mathigon as it improves my grades”
- Builds student knowledge“It teaches stuff that you wouldn't normally know or learn like how pi was invented more than 500 years ago”

Sue Ausman
Used mathigon--textbook-of-the-future for Over one year
Feb 2019
I like that it is authentic and provides deep and complex understanding of math concepts in interesting and engaging manner.
Sue Ausman found mathigon--textbook-of-the-future:
- Builds student knowledge“My gifted students love the interactivity of several links and the puzzles which are very open ended.”
- Improves teaching efficiency and productivity“It is easier for me to use the website to demonstrate math concepts than to try and show students. The website is laid out very efficiently.”
- Saves school money
- Provides school data
- Teach-problem-solvings
- Improves creativity and critical thinking“Puzzles develop critical thinking in interesting manner.”
- Improves creativity and critical thinking“Puzzles develop critical thinking in interesting manner.”
- Improves parent engagement“Students are very interested in the puzzles, but some may not be task committed enough to follow through. That’s typical of gifted students.”

Jan 2019
Sophia found mathigon--textbook-of-the-future:
- Builds student knowledge“The interactivity really brings context to the math, which for my brother, is the difference between understanding and confusion.”
- Improves teaching efficiency and productivity
- Saves school money
- Provides school data
- Teach-problem-solvings
- Improves creativity and critical thinking“Very much like the above. The problems that are posed on Mathigon are well-thought-out and apply math properly in the real world.”
- Improves creativity and critical thinking“Very much like the above. The problems that are posed on Mathigon are well-thought-out and apply math properly in the real world.”
- Improves parent engagement

Jan 2019
It is a brilliant thing that is helpful to all people of all ages who are wanting to learn maths for tests or are just looking to have some fun!
Dylan found mathigon--textbook-of-the-future:
- Builds student knowledge“Helps me understand the method ”
- Improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Sometimes even helps the teacher! ”
- Saves school money“It helps with different platforms but is free so we don't have to spend money on new websites ”
- Provides school data“Since we used it, the classes grades have gone up ”
- Teach-problem-solvings
- Improves creativity and critical thinking“It gives a new line of thought to solve the problem ”
- Improves creativity and critical thinking“It gives a new line of thought to solve the problem ”
- Improves parent engagement“I like maths more since we used it. It is fun ”

Jan 2019
Have not used it with students.
Ralph Backé found mathigon--textbook-of-the-future:
- Builds student knowledge“Haven't yet used it with students.”
- Improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Still getting to know program”
- Saves school money“Have not used Mathigon at school yet.”
- Provides school data“See last”
- Teach-problem-solvings
- Improves creativity and critical thinking“See last”
- Improves creativity and critical thinking“See last”
- Improves parent engagement“See last”

Jan 2019
jean boro found mathigon--textbook-of-the-future:
- Builds student knowledge
- Improves teaching efficiency and productivity
- Saves school money
- Provides school data
- Teach-problem-solvings
- Improves creativity and critical thinking
- Improves creativity and critical thinking
- Improves parent engagement

Jan 2019
Really helpful and free!
Julian found mathigon--textbook-of-the-future:
- Builds student knowledge“Taught me fundamental ideas behind parts of calculus”
- Improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Very well put together textbook style learning, interactivity greatly enhances knowledge retention”
- Teach-problem-solvings
- Improves creativity and critical thinking“Interactivity”
- Improves creativity and critical thinking“Interactivity”
- Improves parent engagement“makes math more fun”

Jan 2019
For a platform that is still in development, the core ideas/strategies that the developers use when creating new content are very effective for students like me and many others.
Daniel Aguirre found mathigon--textbook-of-the-future:
- Builds student knowledge“It helps me to review certain topics in more depth but with the simplicity of the way Mathigon teaches these materials.”
- Improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Working through the proposed activities is very efficient because Mathigon is interactive an quite dynamic in the way it presents them.”
- Saves school money“It probably saves more time than money, because I still have to buy textbooks.”
- Provides school data
- Teach-problem-solvings
- Improves creativity and critical thinking“The activities/problems often requires you to think outside the box.”
- Improves creativity and critical thinking“The activities/problems often requires you to think outside the box.”
- Improves parent engagement“The activities/problems are not boring at all. The examples given when teaching any topic are interesting and sometimes even exciting.”

Jan 2019
very interesting way of accessing maths, but difficult to work into the curriculum
Mary found mathigon--textbook-of-the-future:
- Builds student knowledge“Its builds students interest more than knowledge ”
- Improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Not making a large impact”
- Teach-problem-solvings
- Improves creativity and critical thinking“there are good all class investigations/activities which we have used”
- Improves creativity and critical thinking“there are good all class investigations/activities which we have used”
- Improves parent engagement“some students have gone away and accessed from home”

Jan 2019
I'm really impressed with the technology and how the lesson adapts to the user with embedded activities that are engaging.
Kevin found mathigon--textbook-of-the-future:
- Builds student knowledge
- Improves teaching efficiency and productivity
- Saves school money“They don't have to purchase expensive math curriculum.”
- Provides school data
- Teach-problem-solvings
- Improves creativity and critical thinking
- Improves creativity and critical thinking
- Improves parent engagement

Jan 2019
I haven’t really used mathigon but I loved the advent calendar and want to investigate further
Claire found mathigon--textbook-of-the-future:
- Builds student knowledge
- Improves teaching efficiency and productivity
- Teach-problem-solvings
- Improves creativity and critical thinking
- Improves creativity and critical thinking
- Improves parent engagement“The advent calendar”

Jan 2019
It is a great resourse of quality math material, put together in an interesting way, very well categorized
Tamara found mathigon--textbook-of-the-future:
- Builds student knowledge“Better understanding through applying in creative tasks”
- Improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Can’t remember”
- Provides school data
- Teach-problem-solvings
- Improves creativity and critical thinking
- Improves creativity and critical thinking
- Improves parent engagement“Award system for solving ”

Jan 2019
Some quastions are too hard
Nika found mathigon--textbook-of-the-future:
- Builds student knowledge“It helps me in soving some math tasks.”
- Improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Students implement stuff they learn on this site in solving tasks in class.”
- Saves school money
- Provides school data
- Teach-problem-solvings
- Improves creativity and critical thinking“Not really”
- Improves creativity and critical thinking“Not really”
- Improves parent engagement

Jan 2019
Yes it's good but need more improvement
Wali Ullah Baloch found mathigon--textbook-of-the-future:
- Builds student knowledge“It helps teachers in their teaching style”
- Improves teaching efficiency and productivity“We learn advance techniques and methods”
- Saves school money“New ways to improve low cost techniques”
- Provides school data“It helps to improve school administration while treating students record and other affairs”
- Teach-problem-solvings
- Improves creativity and critical thinking“Yes some time it's helps both teacher and students”
- Improves creativity and critical thinking“Yes some time it's helps both teacher and students”
- Improves parent engagement“This will help students to involve students in much eligant way so that they think more creative way”

Craig
Used mathigon--textbook-of-the-future for 2 years
Jan 2019
A very good tool with easy understand any concepts
Craig found mathigon--textbook-of-the-future:
- Builds student knowledge“Student can fully underdtand the concepts and application of it to solve problem”
- Improves teaching efficiency and productivity“A visualize tool to represent knowledge ”
- Saves school money
- Provides school data
- Teach-problem-solvings
- Improves creativity and critical thinking“Student ask more question than before to make sure her/him fully understand requirements”
- Improves creativity and critical thinking“Student ask more question than before to make sure her/him fully understand requirements”
- Improves parent engagement
